Australian Bird Guide: Concise Edition

Davies, Jeff; Menkhorst, Peter; Rogers, Danny

ISBN 10 : 1399406299 ISBN 13 : 9781399406291

Editeur : Helm, 2022

Synopsis

Comprehensive yet portable, this concise field-guide edition of The Australian Bird Guide is an essential companion for every birdwatcher visiting Australia

This 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, Tasmania, and surrounding seas. Easy to use and beautifully illustrated, the book's content has been carefully designed to provide the reader with all the key information needed to enable rapid identification of any bird, with distribution maps, and comparison pages for major groups.

Portable and pocket-friendly yet comprehensive and authoritative, ABG Concise is an essential companion for any birdwatcher visiting Australia.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Peter Menkhorst has more than thirty-five years’ experience in ecological research and the survey and management of Australian mammals and birds. He has worked in a range of environmental roles in the Victorian government since 1976 and is the author of Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia. Danny Rogers is principal ecologist with the Department of Environment, Water, and Natural Resources in Adelaide. Rohan Clarke is a lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University. Jeff Davies is a lifelong birder who completed a Fine Arts Painting Major at Caulfield Institute of Technology. He has contributed artwork for Shorebirds of Australia, Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds and The Penguins. Kim Franklin has exhibited in Africa and Europe. His illustrations have featured in ornithological books including HANZAB, Birds of the Western Palearctic, Raptors of the World (Helm) and Pheasants, Partridges, and Grouse (Helm). Peter Marsack trained as a zoologist but has also worked extensively as a natural history artist and illustrator. He was an artist for HANZAB, and a prize-winner in the inaugural Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Helm
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1399406299
• ISBN 13: 9781399406291
• Reliure: Carton flexible
• Illustrateur: Clarke Rohan, Marsack Peter, Franklin Kim
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible