Handbook To The Birds Of Australia - Softcover

John Gould

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371847559 ISBN 13: 9780371847558

Publisher: HardPress

Synopsis

"Handbook To The Birds Of Australia" by John Gould. The excerpt outlines the aims and organization of a two-volume, field-friendly companion to Gould’s larger folio, updating prior nomenclature and defending current generic and specific divisions while emphasizing protection of native birds. It situates Australia’s avifauna as distinctive and biogeographically relevant, discussing migration, biogeography, and representation across the southern hemisphere, and notes roughly 660 species known at the time, underscoring the need for long-term, collaborative field documentation. The work is organized taxonomically by order, then family and genus, with detailed species accounts covering range, habitat, habits, breeding and nesting, eggs, plumage (adult and juvenile), and measurements, along with historical and local names and occasional notes on economic impact and conservation. Major themes include endemism, migration, interhemispheric comparisons, ongoing taxonomic revision, ecology, behavior, and conservation. Part 1 highlights Preface and Introduction, the Early Raptors with extensive species-by-species notes, and the beginning of Insessores (Caprimulgidae and Cypselidae), up to Cypselus pacificus, framing a systematic, specimen-driven survey and conservation-minded scholarly framework.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371847559
• ISBN 13: 9780371847558
• Binding: Paperback