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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.
This fully revised and updated edition of A Field Guide to the
Mammals of Australia is the only comprehensive guide to identifying
all 382 species of mammals known in Australia. This book provides
concise and accurate details of the appearance, diagnostic
features, distribution, habitat, and key behavioral characteristics
of all mammals known to have occurred in Australia or its waters
since the time of European settlement. Each double-page spread
provides all the information needed to identify an animal, a
full-color illustration of the entire animal, a smaller diagram of
diagnostic features, a distribution map, and species description
and measurements, including details of how to differentiate between
similar species.
Identification keys are provided for groups that are difficult to
identify to species level, including keys to the genera of small
marsupials, rodents, and bats, and all marine mammals likely to be
washed on to an Australian beach: whales, dolphins, porpoises,
seals, and the Dugong.
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