Australian Bird Guide: Concise Edition

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Australian Bird Guide: Concise Edition Authors: , , , , , Format: Paperback / softback First Published: Published By: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pages: 264 Language: English ISBN: 9781399406291 Categories: , ,

Comprehensive yet portable, this concise field-guide edition of Australian Bird Guide is an essential companion for every birdwatcher visiting AustraliaThis 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.

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The ABG is the new benchmark and this concise edition is also the country's first really compact bird guide. For the birder visiting Australia this book provides everything you need and fits neatly into your pocket. * Birdwatch * 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 * Although there are many bird books available for birders visiting Australia, the best by far is The Australian Bird Guide … The plates, as in the original, are superb and although the species accounts are much reduced in this version, this doesn’t take anything away from the usability of the guide in the field … this concise guide is an invaluable piece of kit that no birder undertaking a trip to Australia should be without. * BTO News * 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 * The Australian Bird Guide concise edition fills a niche in the crowded Australian identification guide world–an up-to-date, well-designed, finely illustrated birding field guide that can actually be used easily in the field. * 10,000 Birds *

Author Biography

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 a lifelong birder who completed a Fine Arts Painting Major at Caulfield Institute of Technology. He has contributed artwork for Shorebirds of Australia, Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds and The Penguins. Kim Franklin has exhibited in Africa and Europe. His illustrations have featured in ornithological books including HANZAB, Birds of the Western Palearctic, Raptors of the World (Helm) and Pheasants, Partridges, and Grouse (Helm). Peter Marsack trained as a zoologist but has also worked extensively as a natural history artist and illustrator. He was an artist for HANZAB, and a prize-winner in the inaugural Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize.