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Posted: Sept 20 2007 at 1:36am | IP Logged Quote monica
i know there are a few people on this forum that live (or have lived) in europe. i was wondering if anyone found good field guides that deal specifically with european species. i have one on birds and trees, but i am looking for guides for insects, wildflowers, and mammals. thanks!!
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Posted: Sept 20 2007 at 5:23am | IP Logged Quote St. Ann
We have several books from the KOSMOS publishing company.
They are in German and I don't know if they are in other languages too.

I'll try to find a link.

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Posted: Sept 20 2007 at 8:10am | IP Logged Quote monica
hmm, i guess i could learn german.
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Posted: Sept 21 2007 at 4:31pm | IP Logged Quote ~Rachel~
I only know that in England, my parents used Reader's Digest books
I those books when I was little. I'd sit at the window with binoculars watching the birds and then identifying them in the books

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hmm, no use here, i just pick up what is on offer at the discount bookshop
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I used a Collins field guide, a very tiny "pocket" one. I'm not sure where you are in Europe--we were in Belgium, and most of the species we tried to look up seemed to be the same. I had good luck ordering from Amazon UK, I think I ordered that one used. Amazon UK had many options to choose from.

I remember that there were "Green Guides" (Michelin) that seemed to be popular in the stores, and some very inexpensive, slim, but nice looking field guides with "drawn" pictures vs. photographs in the discount bookstore (do you have those? Very, very cheap bookstores with good art and nature selections, but watch out for the pornography! ), but my Dutch was not good enough to use them! I needed an English version

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Posted: Oct 19 2007 at 8:01am | IP Logged Quote MacBeth
I have found Peterson bird guides in several countries, all in English. Amazon has European Birds. They have used copies of the leatherbound Mammals book, and a guide to European Ferns, . Specific stuff, that!

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