Bird Field Guide Book for Java

Hi All,

I may be heading to Java (Yogyakarta to be precise) on a business trip later
this year and I’m looking for the best bird field guide book for the region.

I have the 2004 reprint of MacKinnon, J. & Phillipps, K. 1993. A Field Guide
to the Birds of Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali (Oxford University Press,
Oxford), but I wondered if there are other field guides that are just as
useful or better. MacKinnon & Phillipps has texts describing distributions,
but does not contain maps, plus the main text is in a separate part of the
book to the plates . I’m also guessing that the taxonomy is a bit dated.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Stephen

Stephen Ambrose

Ambrose Ecological Services Pty Ltd

Ryde NSW