Bird Study, July 1st, 2004
THE SPECIATION AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF BIRDS Ion Newton Academic Press (Elsevier Science), London, 2003. ISBN 0-12-517375-X, 668 pp. hardback £49.95
This major review and synthesis of current thinking un the subject provides an excellent text for everyone with any desire to work in the area. It is aimed primarily at advanced students of population and evolutionary biology (stated in author's preface) but will be understood easily by, and be of interest to, a far wider range of people including amateur birdwatchers who want to find out the whys and wherefores of where birds are where they are.
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