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BIRD CENSUS TECHNIQUES, second edition. By Colin J. Bibby, Neil D. Burgess, David A. Hill, and Simon H. Mustoe. Academic Press, London, United Kingdom. 2000: xvi + 302 pp., 111 black-and-white figures including illustrations, numerous tables. $55 (cloth).-This is an updated version of the classic reference originally published in 1992.
Ten of the chapters are similar to or the same as in the first edition: "Purpose and design in counting birds," "Census errors," "Territory mapping methods," "Line transects," "Point counts or point transects," "Catching and marking," "Counting individual species "Counting colonial nesting, flocking and migrating birds," "Distribution studies," and "Description and measurement of bird habitat." The chapters contain many of the same sections and same illustrations as the original, although changes in formatting...