Field Guide

Field Guides
A pair of binoculars, a field guide and a notebook are essential for identifying birds. There is no single field guide for Indonesia. A Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali by John MacKinnon and Karen Phillipps and A Field Guide to the Birds of New Guinea by Bruce Beehler both clearly illustrate and describe all the species of these regions, but neither is available in Indonesia. Wallacea (Celebes, Nusa Tenggara and Maluku) has the frustrating distinction of being one of the last regions on earth without a field guide.
To be continued………………………
Taken from Jepson, P, 1997, Birding Indonesia, Periplus Editions. Singapore

Endemic species

They are located mainly in Wallacea, where the colonization of numerous oceanic islands from east and west has promoted the rapid evolution of new species through isolation, and in Papua, where the distinct vegetation types and secluded valleys have similarly led to rapid speciation। For those interested in finding new species, Endemic Bird Areas are not to be missed, but to catch up with all Indonesia’s endemic species will entail several visits, or many weeks traveling around the islands of Wallacea

Taken from Jepson, P, 1997, Birding Indonesia, Periplus Editions। Singapore