Two interesting books on waders have appeared recently, a photographic guide by Richard Chandler: Shorebirds of the northern hemisphere (ISBN 978-1-408-10790-4) and the other on wader movements and population size: An Atlas of Wader populations in Africa and Western Eurasia (ISBN 78-90-5882-047-1). Both books treat the taxonomic status of the species mentioned at length but the Atlas fails in illustrating the various races it mentions, a missed chance indeed. Even the few photographs the Atlas does contain lack the date and place where they were taken and so are meaningless in a book like this. Chandler's book is much more professional and tries to illustrate as best as possible the various forms he describes and he does so with a wealth of great pictures. If you have the other great book The Shorebird Guide ( ISBN-13: 978-0-618-43294-3) and Chandler's Guide, no wader can escape unidentied, well almost ...! The Atlas' maps are certainly very informative and deserve to be published in a separate booklet without the massive load of the text. Both books mention the Dunlin race centralis from Taimyr, Russia but even Chandler has failed in finding a picture! So we offer you a chance to download a report which contains the first known pictures C.a.centralis i.e. those of the first documented C.a.centralis from The Netherlands!:

      http://www.radioactiverobins.com/snipes-waders/dunlin%20calidris%20alpina.htm


Cheers, Norman