Feather and Brush
Feather and Brush

Author: Penny Olsen

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780643065475

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This volume traces the 300-year history of bird art in Australia, from the crudely illustrated records of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available at the start of the 21st century. It is a history inseparable from the development of Australian ornithology. Against a background of establishment of the country itself, naval draftsmen, convicts, officers, settlers, naturalists, artists and scientists alike contributed both to the art and to science.

A Field Guide to the Tracks & Traces of Australian Animals
A Field Guide to the Tracks & Traces of Australian Animals

Author: R. G. B. Morrison

Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Identification guide based on skeletal remains, scats, tracks, diggings and food remains; Chap.6; Aboriginal tracking, describes Aboriginal representations of tracks in art works and gives examples of reproductions in sand made by Pitjantjatjara at Indulkana.

Australian Bird Names
Australian Bird Names

Author: Jeannie Gray

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 2013-05-15

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 0643104712

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Australian Bird Names is aimed at anyone with an interest in birds, words, or the history of Australian biology and bird-watching. It discusses common and scientific names of every Australian bird, to tease out the meanings, which may be useful, useless or downright misleading! The authors examine every species: its often many-and-varied common names, its full scientific name, with derivation, translation and a guide to pronunciation. Stories behind the name are included, as well as relevant aspects of biology, conservation and history. Original descriptions, translated by the authors, have been sourced for many species. As well as being a book about names this is a book about the history of ever-developing understandings of birds, about the people who contributed and, most of all, about the birds themselves. 2013 Whitley Award Commendation for Zoological Resource.