Birds of Hawaii, New Zealand, and the Central and West Pacific (Princeton Illustrated Checklists) Paperback – July 25, 2011

My Mum feeds her birds every day, here on Kauai. This is a lovely book, pics are beautiful, and description is nice. She is amazing with birds and flowers... the birds wait for her every day

Fantastic guide! Used it to go though and identify old photos.

I bough this book for a long vacation where only part of the time was on New Zealand and part in Hawaii. Bottom line: having a condensed and combined book was useful. For that purpose, and that purpose only, the book was 4 stars. If I were doing NZ or Hawaii as my sole trip and was serious about birding, I would definitely research and buy a singular-focused, more comprehensive book for a specific region.The cons are obvious, but no one thing makes it unusable. It's continually challenging to remember which birds to ignore and which to engage on because you have to keep checking the birds' range. The maps are all there, but they're small out of necessity. The icons on the maps are challenging to remember and sometimes understand too (e.g. What does an all black land-area with a black + on it mean?).In the copy I have, I was very disappointed that the Australian Shelduck and Paradise Shelduck are misnumbered on page 88 and 89. I discovered this when I saw a Paradise Shelduck on display in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa - upon reading the text on p. 88 for 23.5, it was clear that p. 89 had the shelducks reversed (photo of erroneous pages attached) How many other errors might be in this book? Unknown.Would I buy it again for a trip like this to several of the places the book covers? Yes. But I'd still wish the whole time that I had multiple books (while knowing I wouldn't have wanted to carry them all). :)

We carried this book aboard when we crossed the Pacific on our sailboat and found that it met our needs very well. We used it to identify birds on all the islands we visited. We are amateurs when it comes to bird identification, but had no problem thumbing through the guide. Of course, it takes some page-turning to find a bird you've only glimpsed briefly, but this book helped us make an identification 95% of the time. We like the at-a-glance approach with symbols for the distribution, rare, endemic, etc facts.- Nadine Slavinski, author of Lesson Plans Ahoy (Second Edition): Hands-On Learning for Sailing Children and Home Schooling Sailors and Lesson Plans To Go: Hands-on Learning for Active and Home Schooling Families

40 yr old here- hi. I’ve become the person who sees a bird and gets upsetti spaghetti if I can’t identify it. So. Here I am in Hawaii, and I’m staring at these “seagulls” which are obviously pigeons who prefer to be all sorts of “different and cooler than thou”. Ok, easy enough. Now I’m 40 years old feeling something called “pineapple rain” and I see these little birds that are blue with dang little stripes. Like mini doves, that breeder with a woodpecker and then again with a blue Jay. I cannot find a picture of this mofo at all in this bird book. So- so he pictures are pretty neat bc someone did take the time to draw ALL the birds out (except for the stupid blue ones) and identify them as immature, adult wing down. Wing open, etc. alright. No problem. It’s neat. It’s very thorough. I’m normally from a Florida and I bought the Nat Geo book of birds in Florida- I keep it in my overly kick aşś purse with sugar skulls and I’m able to flip to the back and find “blue bird” and “stripes” and etc. bc. That’s what I need. So when I didn’t see this option for HAWAII- 🌺 for the love of everything holy I have been staring at birds- becoming the 40 yr old people warned me about. So. If you like the really intricate - probably watercolor Princeton version of this shtuff then I say go for it. But DANGIT. I just want to know WŤF BLUEBIRD I AM LOOKING AT!Sincerely,- slightly grumpy with some IPA.

It was delivered in a timely manner

This book was not as helpful as I hoped. But I love Princeton books!

Wish birds were broken up by location, though. I'd identify a bird I thought I had seen on Hawaii only to read that it was only found in New Zealand. Not user friendly for a person unfamiliar with the area.