Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines
Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines

Author: R Schodde

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 1999-10-01

Total Pages: 887

ISBN-13: 0643102930

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Recent classifications of Australian birds have been limited to lists of "species" which are inadequate as biodiversity indicators. The Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines fills a huge gap in ornithological knowledge by separating out and listing not only 340 species of song-birds but also the 720 distinct regional forms. Covering about half the national bird fauna, the Directory provides science and the community with baseline information about what bird it is and where it lives in an Australia-wide context. Identity is taken down to the level of distinct regional population. No other compendium on Australian birds does this.

The Food of Australian Birds 2. Passerines
The Food of Australian Birds 2. Passerines

Author: RD Barker

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 879

ISBN-13: 0643102566

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This book lists the stomach contents of Australian songbirds collected by the CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology from 1963 to 1980.

The Art of the Bird
The Art of the Bird

Author: Roger J. Lederer

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-09-25

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 022667505X

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The human history of depicting birds dates to as many as 40,000 years ago, when Paleolithic artists took to cave walls to capture winged and other beasts. But the art form has reached its peak in the last four hundred years. In The Art of the Bird, devout birder and ornithologist Roger J. Lederer celebrates this heyday of avian illustration in forty artists’ profiles, beginning with the work of Flemish painter Frans Snyders in the early 1600s and continuing through to contemporary artists like Elizabeth Butterworth, famed for her portraits of macaws. Stretching its wings across time, taxa, geography, and artistic style—from the celebrated realism of American conservation icon John James Audubon, to Elizabeth Gould’s nineteenth-century renderings of museum specimens from the Himalayas, to Swedish artist and ornithologist Lars Jonsson’s ethereal watercolors—this book is feathered with art and artists as diverse and beautiful as their subjects. A soaring exploration of our fascination with the avian form, The Art of the Bird is a testament to the ways in which the intense observation inherent in both art and science reveals the mysteries of the natural world.

Cayley & Son
Cayley & Son

Author: Penny Olsen

Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0642277893

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The classic field guide What Bird Is That? has been known to bird enthusiasts throughout Australia for decades, ever since it was first published in 1931. It was written and illustrated by Neville William Cayley (1886-1950), son of artist Neville Henry Cayley (1854-1903) who, before him, had also had dreams of publishing a 'big bird book'-a comprehensive publication on Australian birds-but it never came to fruition. Cayley and Son charts the lives and works of this Australian father-and-son pair of bird artists.

Glimpses of Paradise
Glimpses of Paradise

Author: Penny Olsen

Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780642276520

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The history of the Paradise Parrot - from its 'discovery' in the 1800s to its extinction in the 1920s and how claims of sightings have continued to the present day.

Feather and Brush
Feather and Brush

Author: Penny Olsen

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 2022-05-02

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 148631418X

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Feather and Brush traces the history of bird art in Australia – from the simple engravings illustrating accounts of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available today. It explores the early European approach, in which naval draughtsmen, officers, convicts, settlers, naturalists, artists and scientists alike contributed both to the art and the science of ornithology, through to a wealth of contemporary artists who feature birds in their works. This book contains more than 400 images, representing the work of 158 artists; some well-known, others published for the first time. The illustrations have been selected for their interest, whether ornithological, historical or artistic. They range from classical to quirky, decorative to functional, monumental to intimate. Together they demonstrate the rich history of Australian bird art, as it evolved in Europe and Australia, and continues today, along with the trends and technologies of the times. This second edition includes new and revised chapters, and features about 200 new artworks, including some by Indigenous artists. Cultural sensitivity Readers are warned that there may be words, descriptions and terms used or referenced in this book that are culturally sensitive. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this book contains images and names of deceased persons.