{"id":40,"date":"2005-12-05T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T21:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2008-08-24T22:20:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T03:20:13","slug":"birding-geneva-postscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2005\/12\/05\/birding-geneva-postscript\/","title":{"rendered":"Birding Geneva, Postscript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva&#8217;s not a large city or a hard city to get around in. You can reproduce most of this route simply by walking down to the lake, and then walking along either side, with side trips off into the various parks that line the lake. If you want to go a little further afield, the book to read is <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nosoiseaux.ch\/~gdj\/bonscoins\/default.htm\">Les Bons Coins ornithologiques de Suisse Romande<\/a><\/cite> by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nosoiseaux.ch\/~gdj\/index.htm\">Groupe des Jeunes de Nos Oiseaux<\/a> (Our Birds Youth Group). It provides detailed descriptions (in French) of over 100 excellent birding spots in the Southern part of Switzerland. It should be available in most large bookstores in Francophone Switzerland. Several of the chapters are online including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nosoiseaux.ch\/~gdj\/bonscoins\/bl\/001.html\">la Rade de Gen\u00c3\u00a8ve et Petit Lac<\/a>,  which describes most of the route I took here. Even if you read French fairly well, it might still be helpful to carry a French field guide to assist with the bird names (Nettes rousse, Fuligules milouinans, Garrots, Macreuses, Harle hupp\u00c3\u00a9, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>For actual identification of European birds, I&#8217;m partial to the <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=0007113323\/ref=nosim\/cafeaulaitA\/\">Collins Bird Guide<\/a><\/cite> by Killian Mullarney, Lars Svensson, Dan Zetterstr\u00c3\u00b6m, and Peter J. Grant. It covers a larger area than I&#8217;d like ideally. (It&#8217;s a little annoying to think you&#8217;ve identified a bird only to check the map and discover the one you think you&#8217;re looking at only lives in Siberia or Israel.) However the pictures and text are second to none.  It&#8217;s been translated into several languages, with adaptations for the countries that speak those languages. For instance, the English translation calculates bird rarity based on how likely birds are to be found in the British Isles. For field use make sure you order the paperback vesion, not the larger hardback version (though the latter has prettier pictures, it&#8217;s much too big to carry around in the field.) <\/p>\n<p>The original Swedish version is  <cite>F\u00c3\u00a4gelguiden Europas och Mederhavsaomradets f\u00c3\u00a4gler i f\u00c3\u00a4lt<\/cite>. Versions are also available in <a href=\"http:\/\/perso.wanadoo.fr\/michelbj\/section_livres\/livres_critiques\/guide.ornitho.html\">French<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/webwinkel.anwb.nl\/published\/webshop\/artikelen\/boeken\/anwb-vogelgids-van-europa.nl.html\">Dutch<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/3440077209\/\">German<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/naturalicante.rgfotonat.com\/vistazo\/Vistazo-julio-2001.htm\">Spanish<\/a>, and possibly other languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva&#8217;s not a large city or a hard city to get around in. You can reproduce most of this route simply by walking down to the lake, and then walking along either side, with side trips off into the various parks that line the lake. If you want to go a little further afield, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}