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Author: Geoff Barrett
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Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 824
ISBN-13: 9781875122097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive atlas presents 4,000 distribution maps for over 650 different bird species, including seasonal changes and breeding range. Change maps are also presented for 250 species, identifying those that are more common or less common since the first atlas was completed 20 years ago.
Author: Margaret Blakers
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 738
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matt Sewell
Publisher: Pavilion Children's
Published: 2019-10-10
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1843654628
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'No budding ornithologist should be without Matt Sewell's Atlas of Amazing Birds... sumptuous illustrations and brief captions tell us all we need to know.' The Telegraph Matt Sewell, creator of Our Garden Birds, presents his personal selection of the most amazing birds from around the world, with dazzling watercolour illustrations, witty and informative descriptions and maps of every continent. Did you know that the bald eagle holds the record for the world's biggest nest - weighing more than two tons? When the elf owl gets into trouble, it plays dead rather than fighting? The Adelie penguin can hold its breath for six minutes and leap up to three metres out of the water? Discover these and many more fascinating facts in this fabulous and beautiful book. Every bird chosen to appear in this book is amazing in its own individual way - birds that migrate thousands of miles, have strange and showy mating rituals, survive in extreme environments, are brilliant builders, are super-fast, super-brave or super-big! Sections on each continent - Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia, North America, South America and Antarctica - include maps to pore over. Travel the world to see magnificent eagles, resilient penguins, tiny hummingbirds, towering ostriches, stunning peacocks and many more. Colourful, clever, song-filled, strange and stunning - this book is a celebration of bird life!
Author: Joseph Michael Forshaw
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0643096345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn up-to-date, fully illustrated monograph on all Australian species of grassfinches.
Author: Les Christidis
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2008-01-25
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0643099646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSystematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds presents an up-to-date classification of Australian birds. Building on the authors’ 1994 book, The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories, it incorporates the extensive volume of relevant systematic work since then. The findings of these studies are summarised and evaluated in the explanations for the taxonomic treatments adopted, and with the extensive citations, the book serves as a comprehensive introduction to the recent systematic literature of Australian birds. All species of birds that have been recorded from the Australian mainland, Tasmania, island territories and surrounding waters are treated and listed. Along with extant native species, all accepted vagrants, recently extinct (since 1800) native species and established introduced species are included.
Author: Graham Pizzey
Publisher: Gardners Books
Published: 2007-01
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780207199356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPizzey's guide contains essential information on 778 species of birds, with 250 full-colour plates, including more than 2500 individual portraits, specially painted for this book, and 700 distribution maps.
Author: Sue Taylor
Publisher: National Library Australia
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0642277656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1838, John Gould, the 'father of Australian ornithology' visited Australia with the intention of gathering material for his great work on Australian birds. In the resulting publication, The Birds of Australia: In Seven Volumes (1848), and the accompanying Supplement (1869), Gould named, for the first time, no fewer than 32 Australian bird species. Gould's words about the Norfolk Island Kaka were prophetic-the last bird of its kind died in a cage in London in 1851. Since then, a number of other species illustrated in The Birds of Australia have become extinct and others are now facing extinction. John Gould's Extinct and Endangered Birds of Australia features 59 plates of birds from Gould's eight-volume work, birds that today are threatened or that no longer exist. Featuring exquisite full-colour lithographs reproduced from the National Library of Australia's copy of The Birds of Australia, this book gives an insight into the history of each bird's European discovery, as well as its subsequent fortunes or misfortunes.
Author: Richard M. Cooper
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Published: 2020-01-30
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ISBN-13: 9780957704756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe third volume in a series providing a comprehensive inventory and distributional analysis of the birds of NSW, the ACT and the western Tasman Sea. The details for each species give a baseline against which future distributional changes, status changes and the effectiveness of conservation measures can be evaluated.
Author: Stephen T. Garnett
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2021-12
Total Pages: 817
ISBN-13: 1486311911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Action Plan for Australian Birds 2020 is the most comprehensive review of the status of Australia's avifauna ever attempted. The latest in a series of action plans for Australian birds that have been produced every decade since 1992, it is also the largest. The accounts in this plan have been authored by more than 300 of the most knowledgeable bird experts in the country, and feature far more detail than any of the earlier plans. This volume also includes accounts of over 60 taxa that are no longer considered threatened, mainly thanks to sustained conservation action over many decades. This extensive book covers key themes that have emerged in the last decade, including the increasing impact of climate change as a threatening process, most obviously in Queensland's tropical rainforests where many birds are being pushed up the mountains. However, the effects are also indirect, as happened in the catastrophic fires of 2019/20. Many of the newly listed birds are subspecies confined to Kangaroo Island, where fire destroyed over half the population. But there are good news stories too, especially on islands where there have been spectacular successes with predator control. Such uplifting results demonstrate that when action plans are followed by action on the ground, threatened species can indeed be recovered and threats alleviated.
