Title: The Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide
Author: Richard Garrigues
Illustrator: Robert Green
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Year: 2007
Country: Costa Rica
408 pages
Costa Rica.
Yes, I read all of it. I'm like that with some field guides. This one features somewhat larger illustrations than many. Our Costa Rican birding guide isn't taken with the color register (he blamed the printing process), but in many cases, I found it more accurate than the other guidebook I was using. The illustration of the keel-billed toucan, for example, was much more true to life.
The intention of this handbook is to omit information unneccesary for identification, and this it does, while bolding field marks and behavioral information that assists differentiation. I found it easy to use in the field.
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