This work (hereafter Shorebirds) was first published in the U.K. by Helm with the more honest title Waders of Europe, Asia, and North America. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, repeating complaints from some of my past reviews, I must say that the author and artist are not overly familiar with North American species or literature. Yet this has not prevented a commercially oriented make-over of the cover and title. Shorebirds is built around a large number of color plates attractively painted by Message and is intended to aid with field identification.