I am interested as would be a grandson who is at uni studying zoology I know either/or both books could be right up his street. Grandad may have to pay though.

It is worth having. My one quibble with it is that they didn’t reproduce the summary graphs in the new volume. Not sure why…they would only have taken a couple of pages…maybe they were just too generalized to be useful.

Looks like this new waterfowl book also has pictures of wings, speculum markings? That’s handy. I have a separate book just aging and sexing ducks by wings, but I’d like something similar in an identification guide so I see it more regularly (not often I’ll pull out my age/sexing book just to look at wing pictures…I still have good memories of doing those weekend marathon wing-bees going through boxes of wings to identify, age and sex the wings hunters sent in; that was early in my career before disillusionment about job prospects in the biology field set in :).