Birds of Australia (eBook)

A Photographic Guide

Iain Campbell, Sam Woods, Nick Leseberg (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
392 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6510-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The best photographic field guide to Australia's birdsAustralia is home to a spectacular diversity of birdlife, from parrots and penguins to emus and vibrant passerines. Birds of Australia covers all 714 species of resident birds and regularly occurring migrants and features more than 1,100 stunning color photographs, including many photos of subspecies and plumage variations never before seen in a field guide. Detailed facing-page species accounts describe key identification features such as size, plumage, distribution, behavior, and voice. This one-of-a-kind guide also provides extensive habitat descriptions with a large number of accompanying photos. The text relies on the very latest IOC taxonomy and the distribution maps incorporate the most current mapping data, making this the most up-to-date guide to Australian birds.Covers all 714 species of resident birds and regularly occurring migrantsFeatures more than 1,100 stunning color photosIncludes facing-page species accounts, habitat descriptions, and distribution mapsThe ideal photographic guide for beginners and seasoned birders alike

Autor

Iain Campbell, a native of Australia, is builder of the Tandayapa Bird Lodge in Ecuador and cofounder of Tropical Birding, which leads bird and wildlife tours around the world. Sam Woods and Nick Leseberg are nature guides for Tropical Birding. Campbell and Woods are the authors of Wildlife of Australia (Princeton).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.11.2014
• Illustrationen: Geoff Jones
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Apostlebird • Arid • Australasian gannet • Australian golden whistler • Australian hobby • Australian masked owl • Australian raven • Australian white ibis • Bassian thrush • Birdwatching • Black-necked Stork • bowerbird • Brolga • Brood parasite • Brown goshawk • Brown quail • Brown skua • butcherbird • Buttonquail • CAPE YORK PENINSULA • Chirruping wedgebill • Chowchilla • Cisticola • coast • Common myna • common species • Cuckooshrike • Currawong • Dryandra Woodland • Egret • escarpment • Eucalypt • Eucalyptus • Eyepatch • Fairy martin • female • Figbird • Fiordland • Flight feather • Frogmouth • Fruit dove • Gallery forest • Gerygone • Great Dividing Range • Great egret • Green pygmy goose • Grey butcherbird • Grey fantail • Hall's babbler • Heath • honeyeater • Horsfield's bronze cuckoo • House sparrow • insect • iron range • Latham's snipe • Laughing kookaburra • Leaden flycatcher • Lesser frigatebird • Letter-winged kite • Little corella • Little pied cormorant • Mainland Australia • Mangrove • Masked booby • Masked lapwing • Megapode • Melaleuca • Mollymawk • moorhen • mudflat • New Guinea • nightjar • Oystercatcher • Pachycephalidae • Papua New Guinea • Pardalote • plumage • Queensland • Rainforest • Saltbush • sandpiper • Satin bowerbird • shrubland • Songlark • Sooty oystercatcher • Storm petrel • Superb lyrebird • Supercilium • Temperate Rainforest • tern • thicket • treecreeper • Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests • Tropical rainforest • Vegetation • Victoria's riflebird • wader • wetland • Woodswallow
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6510-7 / 1400865107
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6510-9 / 9781400865109