Among the books I picked up during my last visit to Broadway Book Shop was *Birds of Goa* by Bikram Grewal and Savio Fonseca. It's published by Goa Tourism and Bird Insitute of Goa and is priced at Rs 500/=
Although I'm not a bird-watching enthusiast I've occasionally picked up these bird books as I sometimes need to know the names of birds found locally. I found this book to be the most reasonably priced volume of this nature published so far given the amount of information it provides. It covers some 400 species and that makes it pretty exhaustive although I did read in the papers recently that two new species have been identified in Goa. It is published on good quality art paper with a good binding and the photographs and printing is really clear and good. Unfortunately when I opened it the one thing I was looking for - local names of birds was missing. Otherwise besides the photographs, the book provides the nomenclature, family and genus, size, bird topography and description of the bird. There is also a section on where the birds can be found in Goa. A good book for the collector on a budget I feel and definitely a nice handbook for a birder. Maybe GALF could help to showcase this book to praise the Government as for a change the Government has done something sensible by supporting this book, and it did not spoil its charity by putting stupid "messages" from various politicians and officials in the book, and there is just a subdued, one page Foreword by Nikhil Desai Chairman of GTDC to mark its presence. Viva Goencho Serkar! Augusto