--- product_id: 50750397 title: "Field Guide to Birds of Southern India (Helm Field Guides)" price: "VT3342" currency: VUV in_stock: false reviews_count: 12 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/50750397-field-guide-to-birds-of-southern-india-helm-field-guides store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Field Guide to Birds of Southern India (Helm Field Guides) **Price:** VT3342 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Field Guide to Birds of Southern India (Helm Field Guides) - **How much does it cost?** VT3342 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/50750397-field-guide-to-birds-of-southern-india-helm-field-guides) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Buy Field Guide to Birds of Southern India (Helm Field Guides) UK ed. by Richard Grimmett, Tim Inskipp (ISBN: 9780713651645) from desertcart's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Review: lovely book - I bought both southern and northern india, great publisher, nice quality info and illustrations Review: The right book to take with you. - Doesn't have distribution maps, but the text has a list of states where each species is found, with a code for whether it is common, winter visitor, etc. I found this good enough (with the brief habitat description) to narrow down what I was likely to be seeing on my trip to Kerala. Moreover, having the limited number of species in Southern India helped to narrow the search when trying to identify a bird, and made the book nice and light to carry in my luggage and in the field. Text is brief, numbers of pictures of each species less than in say Collins Birds of Europe. But both text and pictures are useful and high quality. The unconventional order of the species is extremely annoying, having got used to the usual system, and it doesn't even put things that look like each other close together, if that was supposed to be the idea. I also bought Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, which is a bigger, better, more up-to-date book with distribution maps and more detailed text, but weighs much more and contains many species not found in Southern India. I left it at home, but enjoyed looking things up in it when I got back. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 562,955 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 392 in Wild Birds 923 in Birds (Books) 1,029 in Birdwatching (Books) | | Customer reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (35) | | Dimensions | 13.5 x 1.5 x 21.6 cm | | Edition | UK ed. | | ISBN-10 | 0713651644 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0713651645 | | Item weight | 422 g | | Language | English | | Print length | 240 pages | | Publication date | 24 May 2005 | | Publisher | Helm (UK) | ## Images ![Field Guide to Birds of Southern India (Helm Field Guides) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81VaieC3slL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ lovely book *by J***E on 4 August 2020* I bought both southern and northern india, great publisher, nice quality info and illustrations ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The right book to take with you. *by N***D on 28 March 2019* Doesn't have distribution maps, but the text has a list of states where each species is found, with a code for whether it is common, winter visitor, etc. I found this good enough (with the brief habitat description) to narrow down what I was likely to be seeing on my trip to Kerala. Moreover, having the limited number of species in Southern India helped to narrow the search when trying to identify a bird, and made the book nice and light to carry in my luggage and in the field. Text is brief, numbers of pictures of each species less than in say Collins Birds of Europe. But both text and pictures are useful and high quality. The unconventional order of the species is extremely annoying, having got used to the usual system, and it doesn't even put things that look like each other close together, if that was supposed to be the idea. I also bought Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, which is a bigger, better, more up-to-date book with distribution maps and more detailed text, but weighs much more and contains many species not found in Southern India. I left it at home, but enjoyed looking things up in it when I got back. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Book *by S***W on 19 April 2012* Purchased for a trip to Goa, great book very informative good pictures of the birds. 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