If you follow the bird watching press, you’ll no doubt know that Central Asia (with a few localized and easy-to assume geographic exceptions) is one of the areas of the globe seeing a noteworthy rise in wildlife-related tourism. However for those who have previously made the journey there, finding a field guide to the area can be… well, next to impossible. Thus it is indeed timely that Princeton University Press has announced that Birds of Central Asia; Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan by Raffael Ayé, Manuel Schweizer, and Tobias Roth – the first comprehensive guide ever published to the bird life of these nations – will be added to the Princeton Field Guides series in late October of 2012.
