This is an exciting book that will appeal to the flourishing and growing group of seabirders. The concise text opposite the plates is handy, and essential, as seabirds are ever on the wing. The layout and organization are right on the money. -- Debra Shearwater, owner of "Shearwater Journeys"
Derek Onley is an internationally acclaimed wildlife artist who specializes in seabirds. He has illustrated more than a dozen books, including "Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand". He lives in New Zealand. Paul Scofield is Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has been a seabird biologist for more than twenty years and has traveled from the high Arctic to the Antarctic studying seabirds.
This new field guide is very readable, interesting and an informative treatise on a suite of birds most birdos will never get the chance of observing... There is a wealth of detail in text, distribution maps and paintings of each species that you would be hard pressed to find in any other similar guide. -- Martin O'Brien Bird Observer [The guide] is for birders and others who go to sea and wish to find and identify the birds they see there. Wildlife Activist [T]his is an important guide for ornithologists, birders, naturalists, and conservation biologists seriously interested in oceanic birds. It will significantly assist these people in making correct identifications of these fascinating birds at sea. Highly recommended. International Hawkwatcher This guide should make field identification easier for all those hardy souls who venture on the briny deeps. -- Charles E. Keller Indiana Audubon Quarterly
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