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Endemic birds of Papua New Guinea

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Endemic birds of Papua New Guinea[1][edit]

The high costs and to a lesser degree concerns about safety (note that if you plan well, you should be fine) are the main reasons world birders postpone or even skip a trip to this extraordinary and intriguing area. In this context, it might be surprising that New Guinea’s birds are covered so well for travelling birders. But it's not. Not really. It’s simply one of the most fantastic birding destinations on the planet and therefore alone it deserves a good field guide.

After the very good Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago (Eaton et al. 2016), Lynx published yet another field guide of which the artwork is based on the HBW series. While Indonesia was in desperate need of a new guide, New Guinea wasn't the second, completely revised edition of Birds of New Guinea (Pratt & Beehler 2015) was published by Princeton only two years ago. In the introduction of the new Lynx guide, author Phil Gregory himself mentions that Pratt & Beehler (P&B) is excellent. So the fair question seems to be: is this new book even better? Does it truly add something?

Gregory has lived in Papua New Guinea for years before moving to Australia (where you might know him from the Cassowary House he and his wife Sue run) and has returned to the island often ever since. It'll be hard to find someone more experienced than Gregory, so he seems to be the right man for the job.

The scope of the new book is slightly different in two ways. First of all there’s a geographical difference. Gregory also included the PNG islands of the Bismarck Archipelago and Bougainvillea – an omission in P&B (note that Dutson (2011) also covered these islands).  Therefore new book covers more species, around 900. No less than 460 of which are endemic, with 386 – often spectacular – endemics on the main island. Currently as much as seven endemic families are recognized, but with several species that seem to take odd positions within existing families, this number will certainly rise in the future. Yes, New Guinea is that good.

The second, more subtle difference is that the sole focus is bird identification. Of course you might say, it’s a field guide! Just like P&B! True, but P&B also offers a lot of (ecological) background information and therefore has a slightly wider scope.

List of Endemic birds of Papua New Guinea[2][edit]


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  1. ↑ https://www.dutchbirding.nl/recensies/1422/birds_of_new_guinea_including_bismarck_archipelago_and_bougainville. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ http://lntreasures.com/pngb.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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