BOOK REVIEWS: The Shorebird Guide by Michael O’Brien, Richard Crossley, and Kevin Karlson. 2006. Houghton Mifflin Company. 490 pages, 870 color photos. Paperback $24.95 (ISBN 0-618-43294-9).

Abstract

Shorebirds are popular, and three new shorebird identification guides have appeared in the last year or so: this work, Message and Taylor’s Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia (reviewed below), and Paulson’s Shorebirds of North America (reviewed in Western Birds 36:275–276, 2005). You may well ask, “Do we need all of these guides? Which one(s) should I buy?” The answer depends on what you want. Let’s take a look at The Shorebird Guide.