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This guide covers the best birding sites in Central America and the Caribbean. In a format familiar to readers of this very popular series, each site is considered in terms of ‘Habitat’, ‘Timing’, ‘Access’ and ‘Calendar’, allowing birders to plan excursions to maximise the chances of getting the best out of each site and each region. The book includes detailed maps of the larger sites, plus general maps of the regions covered, and it is illustrated with line drawings.
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Review by Gary Clark for Where to Watch Birds in Central America and the Caribbean
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“Where to watch” books are so valuable that I hesitate to offer any criticism, but I must make the point that this book badly needs improvement in user interface. I was initially excited to find (very simple) maps with numbered birding hot spots. Under each map is a listing of names for the hot spots. I would have expected to pick a number from the map and find close by a section of text related to it. No luck – the number does not appear again. OK, I’ll go to the index at the back and look up the location name. No luck – there is no index. Give up? Here’s the answer – you must note the country, then go back to the front of the book in the Table of Contents to find the country listing, then scan down the subordinate listing until you find the location name. This gives you a page number. Once you’ve mastered this, you can put together a wish list of locations in only about twice the time it might require with a well-organized book. However, each time I pick up the book, I have to rediscover this, which is vexing. I would hope that future editions are reorganized in a more logical fashion.
Criticism aside, there is a lot of information here, and although anecdotal as opposed to comprehensive (one could not hope for the latter), I will be carrying it to Central American this season, and expect my trip to be much more productive because of it. Buy the book, and write yourself a note in the margins at the beginning as to how to use it.