A Field Guide to the Birds of Australia

Pizey, Graham

ISBN 10: 0691082774 / ISBN 13: 9780691082776

Published by Princeton University Press, United Kingdom, 1980

About this Item

hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a very good pictorial dust wrapper, bookplate of a previous owner to front free endpaper with some glue discolouration showing through to verso and slightly to title page, colour plates, maps to endpapers, 460pp.

Seller Inventory # 229724

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Field Guide to the Birds of Australia
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691082774
• ISBN 13: 9780691082776
• Binding: hardback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ornithology

About this title

Synopsis

This book is the most comprehensive work yet published in one volume on Australian bird life. Full details are given of the field marks, habits, voice characteristics, breeding and nesting habits, and range of each species. To enable quick field identification each description is linked by a serial number to its illustration and also to its relevant distribution map.

About the Author

Graham Pizzey, who died in 2001, was a member of the Order of Australia and an Honorary Associate in Ornithology at the Museum of Victoria. He was also a council member of the Australian Conservation Foundation and of Birds Australia (the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union).