In Celebes, bird identification is difficult without a comprehensive field guide, but it is surprising how far you can get armed only with island checklist in Nusa Tenggara and Mollucas. Most island support under a hundred forest species, with only a few representatives of each family. If you already know, for instance, the difference between a fruit-dove, a green pigeon, a cuckoo-dove and an imperial pigeon, faced with an unfamiliar pigeon there are probably only two or three options, and the species name will give you the last clue to identification. Island lists can be found in The Ecology of Nusa Tenggara and Mollucas by Kathryn Monk et al or on the BirdLife Indonesia Programme’s homepage on the World Wide Web. A checklist, which shows regional distribution, is included in the Practicalities.
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Field guide (2)
One is close to completion and the pocket guide Birds of Celebes by Derek Holmes illustrates a selection of species, but, for the moment, serious birders still have to rely on “White & Bruce”: The Birds of Wallacea, an impressive work of taxonomic scholarship but a challenge to use for field identification. To overcome this problem, many birders come armed with notes and sketches of species from difficult or diverse families made from the excellent series of books dealing with individual families.
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