New guide

By Birding-Aus, on February 13th, 2011

Hi everyone

I received some very good news from Alan McBride, one of the authors of the revised edition of “The Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia” (originally by Richard and Sarah Thomas). It is due for release on March 1. Find out more at CSIRO Publishing: http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/21/pid/6411.htm .

More info from Alan:

“Known affectionately by the authors as Tim Tam (from TTAM – the authors, Thomas, Thomas, Andrew & McBride) that other much loved Aussie treat, they have managed to visit practically every site over the last five years, checked out the ones they were unable to get to or found a few new ones. A surprisingly large number of sites are still extant and this surprised both Australian based authors as well as Richard & Sarah. We ask readers to please note where sites have been changed and the need for asking permission now exists such as Mt Lyndhurst or is completely off limits such as Pyampa Station.

“We also mention that the book is a guide to finding birds and NOT A SITE GUIDE and is designed for visitors and locals to get to the better spots to see particular birds. There are a number of excellent site guides around for the various regions of Australia and having used them in renewing this effort we recommend them all unreservedly; not to mention some excellent web sites such as Frank O’Connor, Peter Waanders and others. Apart from finding the birds the book now contains a remarkable selection of bird photos and we thank the photographers involved particularly for these and of course CSIRO for publishing it and saving us having a full garage!

“We hope the phrase, whose got the TIM TAM will turn up more and more in years to come but none of us mind if it’s still called Thomas & Thomas or T &* T”.

So far no news of an iPhone app

Russell Woodford Birding-Aus List Owner russell@birding-aus.org Geelong Victoria Australia http://www.birding-aus.org

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