Birds of Prey of Australia: A Field Guide

Debus, Stephen J. S.

ISBN 10: 1876622342 / ISBN 13: 9781876622343

Published by JB Books, 2002

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Birds of Prey of Australia: A Field Guide
• Publisher: JB Books
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1876622342
• ISBN 13: 9781876622343
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 280 grams

About this title

Synopsis

* High-quality illustrations
* Easy to use and read, enabling rapid identification of difficult raptors
* Provides a ready summary of biological information on Australian raptors, and a lead-in to the latest scientific literature on them

This book is an illustrated field guide to diurnal raptors, a bird group that many people find among the most difficult birds to identify. Raptors are popular and iconic birds, and important ecologically as well as in legislation, with some species listed as threatened. Birds of Prey of Australia will enable people to more easily identify them. It also provides a brief overview of the biology of raptors and an indication of the current state of knowledge on them.

The book has been completely revised and updated, with 15 years of new data, a section on difficult species-pairs (split-images providing direct contrast), and rearranged in modern field-guide format, making it easy to use and enabling rapid identification of "difficult" raptors.

Birds of Prey of Australia will appeal to a wide range of readers.

About the Author

Stephen Debus has undertaken research on and written about raptors for nearly 35 years. He completed a PhD and postdoctoral research in Zoology, on declining woodland birds. He now works as an ecological consultant and is an honorary research associate at the University of New England. In 2015, he was awarded BirdLife Australia's D.L. Serventy Medal for ornithological publication, recognizing his role as Australia's longest serving ornithological editor and contributions to the field, including over 130 papers, the Whitley Award-winning Birds of Prey of Australia: A Field Guide, 2nd edition (CSIRO Publishing 2012), and work on the raptor sections of the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds, Volume 2.