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Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book South Australian Ornithologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book South Australian Ornithologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The South Australian Naturalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Baxter
Publisher : ATF Press
ISBN 13 : 1925309215
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (253 download)
Download or read book Birds of Kangaroo Island written by Chris Baxter and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional bird field guides are few and far between in South Australia and Chris Baxter's photographic guide to the birds of Kangaroo Island is the stand-out in this genre. This comprehensive account covers all 267 bird species recorded on the Island or offshore over the seas. It builds on the annotated list produced by the same author in 1989 and revised in 1995. The photographs provided by some of Australia's most highly regarded photographers beautifully illustrate the detailed descriptions of the birds, their habits, habitats, breeding, status, abundance and distribution on the Island. In addition there are recommendations on where to look for each species, with cautions about not getting too close to endangered birds and their nests. Chris Baxter has called on a lifetime of bird watching on Kangaroo Island and observations from visitors and residents to present an attractive field guide that is a must for all birdwatchers from casual observers to serious ornithologists.
Author : R Schodde
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643102930
Total Pages : 887 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines written by R Schodde and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent classifications of Australian birds have been limited to lists of "species" which are inadequate as biodiversity indicators. The Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines fills a huge gap in ornithological knowledge by separating out and listing not only 340 species of song-birds but also the 720 distinct regional forms. Covering about half the national bird fauna, the Directory provides science and the community with baseline information about what bird it is and where it lives in an Australia-wide context. Identity is taken down to the level of distinct regional population. No other compendium on Australian birds does this.
Author : Richard Thomas
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643097856
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia written by Richard Thomas and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2011 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised second edition describes the best-known sites for all of Australia's endemic birds, plus regular migrants such as seabirds and shorebirds. Covers all states and territories, plus all Australia's island and external territories.
Author : Mark Ziembicki
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643101861
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Australian Bustard written by Mark Ziembicki and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Australian bustard is Australia's heaviest flying bird. It is an icon of the Australian outback where it is more commonly known as the bush or plains turkey. It is also culturally and spiritually significant to Aboriginal people, who prize it as a favourite bush tucker. This book provides the first complete overview of the biology of the Australian bustard, based on the first major study of the species. The author explores the bustard's ecology and behaviour, its drastic decline since European settlement, and the conservation issues affecting it and its environment. Colour photographs of juvenile and adult birds complement the text as well as showcase particular behaviours, such as the spectacular display routines of males when mating. Australian Bustard is the perfect book for natural history enthusiasts.
Author : Libby Robin
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643098674
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Boom and Bust written by Libby Robin and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Boom and Bust, the authors draw on the natural history of Australia's charismatic birds to explore the relations between fauna, people and environment in a continent where variability is 'normal' and rainfall patterns not always seasonal. They consider changing ideas about deserts and how these have helped us understand birds and their behaviour in this driest of continents. The book describes the responses of animals and plants to environmental variability and stress. It is also a cultural concept, when it is used to capture the patterns of change wrought by humans in Australia, where landscapes began to become cultural about 55,000 years ago as ecosystems responded to Aboriginal management. In 1788, the British settlement brought, almost simultaneously, both agricultural and industrial revolutions to a land previously managed by fire for hunting. How have birds responded to this second dramatic invasion? Boom and Bust is also a tool for understanding global change. How can Australians in the 21st century better understand how to continue to live in this land as its conditions are still dynamically unfolding in response to the major anthropogenic changes to the whole Earth system? This interdisciplinary collection is written in a straightforward and accessible style. Many of the writers are practising field specialists, and have woven their personal field work into the stories they tell about the birds.
Author : Joseph Forshaw
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 1486304044
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Pigeons and Doves in Australia written by Joseph Forshaw and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possibly the most successful urban birds, pigeons and doves in the Order Columbiformes are one of the most easily recognised groups. They are an ancient and very successful group with an almost worldwide distribution and are most strongly represented in tropical and subtropical regions, including Australia. In most species simple plumage patterns feature mainly grey and brown with black, white or dull reddish markings, but the highly colourful fruit-doves include some of the most beautiful of all birds. From dense rainforests of north Queensland, where brilliantly plumaged Superb Fruit-Doves Ptilinopus superbus are heard more easily than seen, to cold, windswept heathlands of Tasmania, where Brush Bronzewings Phaps elegans are locally common, most regions of Australia are frequented by one or more species. For more than a century after arrival of the First Fleet, interest in these birds focused on the eating qualities of larger species. In addition to contributing to declines of local populations in some parts of Australia, excessive hunting brought about the extinction of two species on Lord Howe Island and another species on Norfolk Island. In Pigeons and Doves in Australia, Joseph Forshaw and William Cooper have summarised our current knowledge of all species, including those occurring on Christmas, Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands, and with superb artwork have given readers a visual appreciation of the birds in their natural habitats. Historical accounts of extinct species are also included. Detailed information on management practices for all species is presented, ensuring that Pigeons and Doves in Australia will become the standard reference work on these birds for ornithologists and aviculturists.
Author : Jeff Davies
Publisher : Helm Field Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781399406291
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Australian Bird Guide written by Jeff Davies and published by Helm Field Guides. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Darryl Jones
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643099301
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Mound-builders written by Darryl Jones and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mound-builders are unique in being the only birds that do not incubate their eggs using body heat; rather, a variety of naturally occurring sources of heat is exploited such as solar energy and the heat generated by decomposing organic matter. This book shows how this remarkable adaptation influences every part of these birds’ lives, including the development of the embryo, the parentless life of the hatchlings, their social organisation and their survival. Twenty-two species of mound-builders exist within the Megapode family. Mound-builders examines the three occurring in Australia: the Scrubfowl in the humid tropics; the Brush turkey in dense forested areas from Cape York to Sydney; and most remarkable of all, the Malleefowl in the arid interior. Scientific interest in these birds has increased considerably in recent decades, and Mound-builders summarises many significant discoveries. With a strong emphasis on conservation and changing interactions between mound-builders and people, this is an excellent introduction to one of the most unusual bird families.
Author : Joseph Forshaw
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643106502
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Vanished and Vanishing Parrots written by Joseph Forshaw and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph M. Forshaw, one of the world’s leading authorities on parrots, calls attention to the threats they face: they are one of the most endangered groups of birds, with a growing number of species nearing extinction. The main threats arise from habitat loss through deforestation and agricultural development and from the taking of birds for the international live-bird trade. Vanished and Vanishing Parrots brings together information on species that have become extinct in historical times with information on species that are in danger of becoming extinct to increase public awareness of the plight of these magnificent birds. Vivid colour plates by the wildlife artist Frank Knight draw attention to the spectacular species that we have lost or that could be lost. Forshaw’s work gives us fascinating insight into these endangered and extinct parrots. Vanished and Vanishing Parrots will be a valuable reference for scientific, ornithological and avicultural organisations, as well as individual lovers of birds and of illustrated natural history books.
Author : Terence Lindsey
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643094210
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Albatrosses written by Terence Lindsey and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2008 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Albatrosses are largely confined to the region referred to by early mariners as the Roaring Forties and the Furious Fifties, otherwise known as the Southern Ocean. The single most distinctive characteristic of the albatrosses is that they ride storms. Aside from a few close relatives among the petrels and shearwaters, they are the only animals (of any kind) that do this. They dont evade storms, or flee them, or grit their figurative teeth and hang on through them, they climb aboard and ride them effectively throughout their lives. This work outlines the life histories of these spectacular birds, and explores some of the main strategies and tactics that have evolved to enable them to achieve mastery of one of the most hostile regions on the planet. It describes the 24 species of albatrosses found worldwide, including the most important species from an Australian perspective (Wandering Albatross, Shy Albatross, Black-browed Albatross, Sooty Albatross)"-- Provided by publisher.
Author : Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book List of Books on Ornithology in the Public Library of South Australia and Other Adelaide Libraries written by Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Gould
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Birds of Australia written by John Gould and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : South Australian Museum
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Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Records of the South Australian Museum written by South Australian Museum and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Low
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300226802
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Where Song Began written by Tim Low and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative and entertaining exploration of Australia’s distinctive birds and their unheralded role in global evolution Renowned for its gallery of unusual mammals, Australia is also a land of extraordinary birds. But unlike the mammals, the birds of Australia flew beyond the continent’s boundaries and around the globe many millions of years ago. This eye-opening book tells the dynamic but little-known story of how Australia provided the world with songbirds and parrots, among other bird groups, why Australian birds wield surprising ecological power, how Australia became a major evolutionary center, and why scientific biases have hindered recognition of these discoveries. From violent, swooping magpies to tool-making cockatoos, Australia’s birds are strikingly different from birds of other lands—often more intelligent and aggressive, often larger and longer-lived. Tim Low, a renowned biologist with a rare storytelling gift, here presents the amazing evolutionary history of Australia’s birds. The story of the birds, it turns out, is inseparable from the story of the continent itself and also the people who inhabit it.
