The Princeton Field Guide to the Birds of Australia

ISBN 10: 0691025754 / ISBN 13: 9780691025759

Published by Princeton University Press, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Princeton Field Guide to the Birds of Australia
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691025754
• ISBN 13: 9780691025759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Day, Nicolas
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 1.85 pounds

About this title

Synopsis

The Princeton Field Guide to the Birds of Australia is a handy, portable manual for identification of Australian birds all over the country. In paintings of extraordinary beauty and precision, Nicolas Day captures the details of all 770 bird species in Australia. More than 2000 color illustrations are accompanied by distribution maps, descriptive drawings, and essential field information edited by Ken Simpson.


This book has been expanded to provide even more new illustrations and information than earlier editions. There are 20 new color plates. The identification section has been completely reordered to reflect the most up-to-date knowledge about the classification and evolutionary relationships of Australia's bird families. The distribution maps have been entirely redrawn and updated, and numerous black-and-white illustrations have been added.


All readers--occasional or avid birdwatchers, ornithologists or students--will find The Princeton Field Guide to the Birds of Australia an invaluable companion, whether they require readily accessible information in the field or reliable reference material for the desk.


Features include:


Every bird species of Australia illustrated in over 2000 painted images


Simple-to-use Key to Families


Field information and distribution maps adjacent to each painting of a species


Data on abundance and movement for each species


Handbook section giving detailed information on bird behavior, feeding, breeding, evolution, and taxonomy


A rare bird bulletin describing fifteen rare and vagrant species


Information for bird-watchers on the five Australian island groups

About the Author

Ken Simpson has worked variously in zoology, archaeology, mineralogy, and paleontology, and at the Geology School of Melbourne University, CSIRO Division of Wildlife Research, the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions at Macquarie Island, the Museum of Victoria, and the Zoology Department of Monash University. He retired recently from lecturing in primary science at Deakin University. His first book, Birds in Bass Strait, was published in 1972. He is a former editor of Aurora (the Antarctic veterans' journal) and of the Australian Bird Watcher. In 1974 he became the second recipient of the Honorary Degree of Master of Science awarded by Monash University. Nicolas Day has been a keeper at the Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens. He began wildlife illustration in earnest in 1977. He is a past council member of the Wildlife Art Society of Australia. His published work includes Field Guide to the Birds of the ACT.