The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds

Looking through back issues for the past few years, Reference Reviews seems to have reviewed remarkably few ornithological reference works. Bird‐watching has become increasingly popular in recent years. Moving into the mainstream it has become quite a commercial success. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is the largest voluntary organisation in Britain by far, and the back pages of its Birds magazine are full of advertisements for expensive camera lenses, telescopes, and organised bird‐watching holidays in all sorts of exotic locations. We met some in Panama last year – a jolly group festooned with telescopic lenses and...