A Field Guide to the Birds of Korea, Second Edition

Second edition. A compact, lightweight field guide to every bird species recorded on the Korean Peninsula through June 2014. 120 plates with color illustrations and distribution maps. The illustrations are superb, with species descriptions and maps given on facing pages. At the front of the guide is a useful checklist of Korean birds. This second edition features approximately 50 more species than the first edition, for a total of 21 orders, 80 families, and 541 species. It includes information on when birds were first recorded on the peninsula, new subspecies, updated taxonomy incorporating new splits, and contains updated common names.