Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!picuxa!gpasq From: gpasq@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: South American Bird Books Message-ID: <711@picuxa.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 88 14:06:16 GMT References: <7823@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <7824@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1328@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Reply-To: gpasq@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190) Distribution: all Organization: AT&T/EDS Product Integration Center Lines: 32 In article <1328@helios.ee.lbl.gov> mostardi@ux1.lbl.gov (David Mostardi) writes: -In article <7824@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> e299-ao@sim.UUCP (Brenda Baker) writes: -> ->I'll be going to Venezuela this winter and was wondering if anyone could ->recommend a good book for the birds down there. I hear they have 1300 ->species many of which are very different from what we have up here. -> ->Brenda - -Perhaps someone out there has a list of good field guides for -birds of all the other continents besides good ol' North -America. - -For example, on Sunday I am going to Stockton to search for a bird -called a Tundra swan, but said swan is not in my N. Amer. field -guide -- but for the company of an experienced birder, how could -I identify this swan? - -David Mostardi, MSRI, Berkeley CA. Internet: DPMostardi@lbl.gov - -"Guess what Dad! Those chocolate diskettes fit right into your - computer, no problem!" The Tundra Swan was rather recently named. It is the old Whistling Swan, which should be in your guide. Greg -- ============================================================================= By the time they had diminished from Greg Pasquariello AT&T PMTC 50 to 8, the dwarves began to suspect Hungry. att!picuxa!gpasq =============================================================================