Title: Philip Johnson
Product review: I'm a vetern of 16 years of tropical birding. I have often visited countries for which no field guide is published. In those places I carry 3 or more incredibly bulky bird guides that don't agree on nomenclature and lack any information the local endemics. And those detailed descriptions they contain? There's no reading them when I'm struggling to see every bird in a foraging band - they're for reading over dinner. Birds of Peru is a true field guide, small enough to carry all day, yet quite thorough - it's a godsend for the traveling birder. The disorganization among the plates (typical for tropical bird guides)is a trivial problem as compared to carrying multiple books. Quick! - where do you find the woodcreepers in Tudor's recent and truly elegant "Birds of Venezuela"? (plates 37 & 43)
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