Op HERRICK XI

[Lesser Spot Finder]

For those of us lucky enough to be deploying on Op HERRICK XI a new fieldguide will aid bird identification. The 'Bird of Paikistan' has just been published by Helm and is much thinner and thus lighter than the 'Birds of the Middle East'. There is still not a guide for Afghanistan and judging by the current state of play I guess there won't be one for some time.

I have tried it, sad I know, and it will fit in a map pocket of Desert Cbt 95.

Normal caveats apply when trying to ID an ufamiliar bird but first stop must be the distribution maps as there a number of warblers etc which are only found on the Indian Border and not in Afghanistan.

Yours in Helmand Birding.

Richard