A Photographic Guide to Birds of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos

#256
Title: A Photographic Guide to Birds of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
Authors: Peter Davidson
Publisher: New Holland Publishers
Year: 2009
144 pages

Not as good as A Photographic Guide to Birds of Thailand, this volume is all right for very superficial viewing but not for anyone who will ruminate over not locating a bird in its pages. This guide suffers from a number of authorial or editorial decisions, including sometimes omitting descriptions of key field markings, presenting photographs of subspecies that are less common than other birds one is more likely to encounter (e.g., the entry for the Brown Shrike), and neglecting to include birds such as the Hoopoe that are regionally common and quite striking while devoting space to what appears to be a painting of the Great Hornbill, "now scarce across most of the region" (p. 23). Use only when you don't have room for a larger guide.