Description
Comprehensive yet portable, this concise field-guide edition of Australian Bird Guide is an essential companion for every birdwatcher visiting Australia This new, fully updated concise edition of the award-winning Australian Bird Guide brings the authority and clarity of ABG into a portable format ideal for field use. Its compact format features more than 700 bird species that are residents of or regular visitors to the Australian mainland and Tasmania, and surrounding seas. Easy to use and beautifully illustrated, the book's content has been carefully designed to provide the reader with key information to enable rapid identification of any bird. Australian Bird Guide: Concise Edition includes up-to-date species descriptions, distribution maps, illustrations and comparison pages for major groups. Portable and pocket-friendly yet comprehensive and authoritative, it's an essential companion for any birdwatcher visiting Australia.
Comprehensive yet portable, this concise field-guide edition of Australian Bird Guide is an essential companion for every birdwatcher visiting Australia
About the Author
Peter Menkhorst has more than thirty-five years' experience in ecological research and the survey and management of Australian mammals and birds. He has worked in a range of environmental roles in the Victorian government since 1976 and is the author of Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia. Danny Rogers is principal ecologist with the Department of Environment, Water, and Natural Resources in Adelaide. Rohan Clarke is a lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University. Jeff Davies is an Australian artist, with a focus on portraits of Australian birds and their environments. Peter Marsack is an award-winning freelance artist based in Canberra. Kim Franklin is a freelance artist and illustrator who has exhibited worldwide and is based in Australia. Peter Marsack is a freelance natural history artist and illustrator, based in Canberra since 1994. He was senior artist on the final three of the seven volumes of the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds, and his original plates from these volumes are now in the collection of the State Library of Victoria. He was a finalist in the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize in 2003 and 2004, winning a watercolor prize in 2003.
Reviews
For residents of Australia, the completeness of the full-sized edition makes it an essential reference to have; but for those of us who are visiting and perhaps don't require such in-depth coverage of vagrants and subspecific variation in the country, this new concise edition makes for the perfect birding companion. The quality remains top class, and the guide's reasonable price and remarkably small size only add to its appeal. * British Birds *
Anyone interested in the birds of Australia should get the full guide, but if you are just visiting, leave that at home and buy this excellent complementary concise guide to take with you! I really can't recommend it highly enough. * Scottish Birds *
Book Information
ISBN 9781399406291
Author Jeff Davies
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint Helm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Comprehensive yet portable, this concise field-guide edition of Australian Bird Guide is an essential companion for every birdwatcher visiting Australia
About the Author
Peter Menkhorst has more than thirty-five years' experience in ecological research and the survey and management of Australian mammals and birds. He has worked in a range of environmental roles in the Victorian government since 1976 and is the author of Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia. Danny Rogers is principal ecologist with the Department of Environment, Water, and Natural Resources in Adelaide. Rohan Clarke is a lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University. Jeff Davies is an Australian artist, with a focus on portraits of Australian birds and their environments. Peter Marsack is an award-winning freelance artist based in Canberra. Kim Franklin is a freelance artist and illustrator who has exhibited worldwide and is based in Australia. Peter Marsack is a freelance natural history artist and illustrator, based in Canberra since 1994. He was senior artist on the final three of the seven volumes of the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds, and his original plates from these volumes are now in the collection of the State Library of Victoria. He was a finalist in the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize in 2003 and 2004, winning a watercolor prize in 2003.
Reviews
For residents of Australia, the completeness of the full-sized edition makes it an essential reference to have; but for those of us who are visiting and perhaps don't require such in-depth coverage of vagrants and subspecific variation in the country, this new concise edition makes for the perfect birding companion. The quality remains top class, and the guide's reasonable price and remarkably small size only add to its appeal. * British Birds *
Anyone interested in the birds of Australia should get the full guide, but if you are just visiting, leave that at home and buy this excellent complementary concise guide to take with you! I really can't recommend it highly enough. * Scottish Birds *
Book Information
ISBN 9781399406291
Author Jeff Davies
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint Helm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
