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NATIONAL
FIELD GUIDES
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Australia currently has four
national field guides. Michael Morcombe's Field Guide to
Australian Birds in not stocked. With little doubt, the best
for serious birding is Graham Pizzey & Frank Knight's
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia (referred to as
Pizzey). Peter, Pat and Raoul Slater's The Slater
Field Guide to Australian Birds (referred to as
Slater) is excellent and small enough to carry in a
jacket or trouser pocket. Field Guide to the Birds of
Australia (Simpson & Day) is a good guide for
general birding.
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Field
Guide to the Birds of Australia - Graham Pizzey
& Frank Knight
580
pp, 250 colour plates. 155 x 240 mm (6 x 9.5 inches) Packed
with information ~ many juvenile plumages,similar species,
subspecies, best detail on range. A complete revision of
Graham Pizzey's original guide (1980) with a new artist,
Frank Knight.
$45
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The
Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds Peter, Pat
& Raoul Slater
342 pp, 157 colour
plates. 118 x 215 mm, (4.5 x 8.5 inches) Despite
20 years since it first appeared this guide has stood
the test of time. Its popularity lies in its simple plates,
its shape and light weight.
$30
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Field
Guide to the Birds of Australia Ken Simpson &
Nicholas Day
440 pp, 132 colour plates.
155 x 225 mm (6 x 9 inches) Distribution maps include ranges
of subspecies. 130 pp The Handbook (non
field guide data, general birdwatching,
taxonomy, evolution, behaviour etc). Best
information/maps on races.
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NATIONAL
SITE GUIDES
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There were two guides
devoted to Australian birding sites. The best was The
Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia (now
out of print) by Richard & Sarah Thomas. Where
to Find Birds in Australia by John Bransby is quite
outdated being first published in 1987 and reprinted in 2000
without alteration. Unfortunately, Where to Watch Birds
in Australasia & Oceania by Nigel Wheatley
contains many errors in the Australian
sections and is not recommended.Not stocked (Reviews on
Birding-aus chatline)
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REGIONAL
FIELD & SITE GUIDES
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Only a small number of
guide/finder books have been written for regional areas,
e.g. Sydney (NSW), The Wet Tropics (Qld), The Top End (NT),
but otherwise many areas are not covered.
My latest self-published
book, Birding Australia Site Guide - The
South-East covers many prime birding sites in New South
Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, Tasmania and
South Australia.
Queensland (Qld) The
Wet Tropics (north-east) is well covered by Birds of
Queensland's Wet Tropics & Great Barrier Reef
(Nielsen - field & site guide OUT OF PRINT) and
Where to Find Birds in North East Queensland (Wieneke
- site guide only). Nothing else for the remainder of
Qld.
New South Wales (NSW)
My latest book Birding Australia Site Guide The South
East includes a bird list for each site, facilities,
maps, plus seabird and wader hotspots. Birdwatchers Guide
to the Sydney Region (Roberts - site guide )OUT OF PRINT
details some of the best sites. Birdwatching in Royal
& Heathcote National Parks (Anyon-Smith) is useful -
available from visitor centres in these parks close to
Sydney. Little else for the remainder of NSW.
Australian Capital
Territory (ACT) My latest book Birding Australia Site
Guide The South East includes a bird list for each site,
facilities and maps. Field Guide to the Birds of the ACT
(Taylor & Day) is mostly a field guide, but also
contains directions to a few good birding sites - fits into
a shirt pocket.
Victoria (Vic) My
latest book Birding Australia Site Guide The South
East includes a bird list for each site, facilities,
maps, plus seabird and wader hotspots. Little else
available, apart from some small publications (annotated
lists) covering parts of the greater Melbourne
region.
Tasmania (Tas) My
latest book Birding Australia Site Guide The South
East includes a bird list for each site, facilities,
maps, plus seabird and wader hotspots. Field Guide to
Tasmanian Birds (Watts) is a photographic guide covering
the most notable birds, with notes on where to see each
species.
South Australia (SA)
My latest book Birding Australia Site Guide The South
East includes a bird list for each site, facilities,
maps, plus seabird and wader hotspots.
Western Australia
(WA) Birding Sites Around Perth (Van Delft)
covers much of the Perth area. Field Guide to the Birds
of Western Australia (Storr & Johnstone) does not
list sites. Most of its information is covered by the
national guides. A vast amount of site information is found
on Frank O'Connor's and Birds Australia WA
Group's websites - see Birding
Links
page.
Northern Territory
(NT) The best covered of all states/territories
with three guides - Birds of the Top End (Goodfellow
- field and site guide which includes Kakadu NP), Finding
Birds in Australia's Northern Territory (Donato et al -
site guide which covers both the Top End and the southern
areas about Alice Springs - the only guide which gives a
comprehensive coverage of central Australia) and Finding
Birds in Darwin Kakadu and the Top End Northern Territory
Australia (McCrie & Watson - site guide).
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Birding Australia Site
Guide The South East Lloyd Nielsen (2007)
EXCLUSIVE
TO THIS SITE ONLY
160 pp. B&W. 145 x 210
mm (5.75 x 8.25 inches) My latest book describes 220 of the
top birding sites in NSW, Vic, ACT, Tas and SA. Bird list
for each site, facilities, access. Seabird and wader
hotspots. Maps, indexed. Spiral bound. User
friendly.
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OUT
OF PRINT
Birds of
Queensland's Wet Tropics and Great Barrier Reef
Lloyd Nielsen
331 pp. 155 x 225 mm (6 x 9
inches) Field guide plus where to find the birds. Key
guide identification system. Section on how to
separate similar species. Two World Heritage sites. All
birds from Townsville to Cooktown and Great Barrier Reef
illustrated in colour. Details 86 of the most popular
birding sites in north-east Qld. Maps, distribution maps,
places to stay.
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Checklist
- Birds of Queensland's Wet Tropics
Lloyd Nielsen
16pp,
105 x 178 mm. (4 x 7 inches) Provision for 10
localities/excursions, index. Fits into a shirt
pocket.
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Birds
of Lamington National Park and Environs Lloyd
Nielsen
144
pp, 145 x 210 mm (5.75 x 8.25 inches) B&W. Field
and site guide. Subtropical World Heritage site in
south-eastern Qld. Status, habits, rare and vagrant species,
key format, maps, where to find
the
birds.
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Where
to Find Birds in North-east Queensland Jo
Wieneke
132
pp, B&W, 145 x 210 mm (5.75 x 8.25 inches) Covers
the area from Cairns and the Daintree River, and south to
Bowen.
Over 90 localities
described. Notes on status, range, habits.
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OUT
OF PRINT
Birdwatcher's Guide to the Sydney Region Peter
Roberts
168 pp, B&W, line drawn
maps, 130 x 210 mm (5 x 8.25 inches) Birds within an 80
km of Sydney CBD. Site guide details 20 best birding
localities, access, facilities. Lists 286 species,
abundance, habitat, how and where to find the
birds and where to look.
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Field
Guide to the Birds of the ACT McComus Taylor,
Nicholas Day
90 pp, 32 colour plates, 108
x 210 mm (4.25 x 8.25 inches) All birds in the Australian
Capital Territory (about Canberra). Identification, habits,
voice, breeding, similar species. Details 7 of the best
birding localities plus 23 worth a try.
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Field Guide to
Tasmanian Birds Dave Watts
192 pp, 150 x 210 mm (6 x
8.25 inches) Photographic Field
Guide.
Excellent photographs.
Describes 179 of 210 species of this island state.
Identification, habits, voice, habitat, breeding,
distribution, where to find the
birds.
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Birding Sites around
Perth Ron Van Delft
155 pp, 150 x 210 mm (6 x
8.25 inches) Photographic Site Guide. Illustrated throughout
with photographs. Professional, coloured maps.
Describes 46 birding sites within a 60 km radius of Perth.
Notes on 200 species including the south-western endemics.
Feature species, bird lists, suggested bird
tours.
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OUT OF
PRINT
The Birds
of Broome Peter Collins
84 pp, 150 x 210 mm (6 x
8.25 inches) Annotated list published by Broome Bird
Observatory. Map, 6 colour photographs of birds.
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Finding Birds in
Australia's Northern Territory Donato, Wilkins,
Smith, Langford
192 pp, 145 x 230 mm (5.75 x
9 inches) B&W, line drawn maps. Many best birding sites,
eg Kakadu, about Darwin, Alice Springs, Uluru (Ayers
Rock). Notes to assist location of 384 terrestrial resident
and migrant birds and 69 of the Territory's rare, endemic
and special birds. Status, habits, where to find the birds.
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Birds
of Australia's Top End Denise Goodfellow
160 pp. 28 colour plates,
170 x 240 mm (6.75 x 9.5 inches) Field guide covering birds
of the northern third (Top End) of the NT. Notes
on similar species, call, flight, range, habitat, where
to find each species, birdwatching hints and much
more. Interesting and distinctive style. Distribution
maps.
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Finding
Birds in Darwin, Kakadu and the Top End, Northern Territory
Australia Niven McCrie & James Watson
160 pp, 150 x 210 mm (6 x
8.25 inches) B&W. Line-drawn maps. All the
well-known birding sites of the top half of the Northern
Territory (Top End) plus sites not mentioned in other
guides. Includes annotated list.
$30
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TAXONOMY
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Systematics and Taxonomy
of Australian Birds Les Christidis & Walter E Boles
(2008)
272 pp, 255 x 175 mm (10 x 7
inches) This long awaited checklist is an expanded update of
the official checklist of birds of Australia and its
territories by the same authors. Up-to-date classification
of Australian birds lists all species recorded from the
Australian mainland, Tasmania, island territories and
surrounding waters. All vagrant species accepted by Birds
Australia Records Appraisal Committee are included plus
established introduced species. Brief explanations for the
many recent taxonomic changes and for those incorporated
into the book. Absolutely essential for birders who take
their birding seriously.
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SHOREBIRDS
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Shorebirds of
Australia Andrew Geering, Lindsay Agnew, Sandra Harding
(2007)
242 pp. 170 x 250 mm (6.63 x
9.75 inches) The latest information about the evolution,
ecology and behaviour of all species of shorebirds (waders)
in Australia. Colour photographs, distribution maps,
habitat.
$49 Add
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BIRDS
OF PREY
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OUT
OF PRINT
The Birds of Prey of Australia
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A
Field Guide
- Stephen Debus
152
pp, colour plates including 27 from Handbook of
Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (HANZAB).135
x 215 mm (5.25 x 8.5 inches) Many B&W illustrations.
B&W drawings of underwing pattern, silhouettes of
various flight postures and patterns. Describes each of
Australia's 24 species of birds of prey with detailed
notes on adult, immature, juvenile, chick,
similar species, identification, food, hunting,
behaviour, breeding, threats, conservation. Debus is the
acknowledged authority on the subject.
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DAINTREE
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Daintree
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Jewel of Tropical North Queensland
Lloyd
Nielsen
72pp, 160 x 230mm (6.25 x 9
inches) B&W & colour. The fascinating story of the
World Heritage Daintree rainforest. Includes aboriginal
culture. Essential reading for every visitor to the Daintree
and anyone with an interest in Australia's natural
heritage.
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