The Australian Bird Guide
by Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Jeff Davies, Peter Marsack, and Kim Franklin
From Princeton University Press:
The Australian avifauna is large, diverse, and spectacular, reflecting the continent’s impressive habitats and evolutionary history. Looking at more than 900 species, The Australian Bird Guide is the most comprehensive field guide on Australian birds available, and contains by far the best coverage of southern seabirds. With 249 color plates containing 4,000 stunning images, this book offers a far more in-depth treatment of subspecies, rarities, and overall plumage variation than comparative guides. The artwork meets the highest standards, and the text is rigorously accurate and current in terms of identification details, distribution, and status. The Australian Bird Guide sets a new bar for coverage of Australia’s remarkable avifauna and is indispensable to all birders and naturalists interested in this area of the world, including the southern oceans.
- Brand-new guide with an attractive look and design
- 249 color plates containing 4,000 superb images by some of the most talented illustrators working in Australia today
- Every bird species in Australia is covered (more than 900), including subspecies and rarities
- Up-to-date maps reflect the latest information on distribution
- Accurate and detailed text
The Collins Guide down under. In terms of format, content, quality, and overall feel, this new guide is very similar to the Collins Bird Guide (aka Birds of Europe). That is a very high compliment. This is the field guide to have with you in Australia. And by “have with you”, I mean in the car. It’s a little too large and heavy to comfortably carry. But that’s not a drawback in my book.
The Australian Bird Guide
by Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Jeff Davies, Peter Marsack, and Kim Franklin
Flexibinding; 576 pages
Princeton University Press; May 16, 2017
ISBN: 9780691173016
$39.95
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Posted by Grant McCreary on May 25th, 2017.
[…] The Australian Bird Guide is, arguably, the best identification guide for that continent. But it’s a bit…unwieldy. This new pocket guide is a concise version of that larger guide, now allowing you to take it with you in the field. I would not recommend this pocket edition be the only field guide you use in Australia, unless you are already very familiar with the birds or are just doing some incidental birding. But if you’d like to have a good field guide with you, one that will actually fit in your pocket, this is a great choice. […]