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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 020714480X
- ISBN 13 9780207144806
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages376
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THE WATERBIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife.
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Angus & Robertson Publishers. London, Sydney, Melbourne. 1985.
(1982)
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Book Description Condition: new. (Hardcover, 1997). 1985 1st edition. Large 4to (219 x 2198mm). Ppxiii,343. Colour photographs, b/w line illustrations, distribution maps, bibliography. White titles to black boards, spine titled in white. Slight use, slight rubbing to bottom edge of boards. Good-plus in like dust-wrapper. This "is an important new work covering the sixty-seven species of bird inhabiting the marshes, swamps, riviers and other wetlands of Australia". "Most water birds are large and conspicuous, though some are rare and obscure. Few sights in nature are more spectacular than a vast ibis rookery in the Riverina, or whistling ducks in dense camps of thousands in remote tropical swamps of the Top End, black swans congregating in huge flocks on extensive lakes, or grebes courting in some quiet backwater of a cumbungi swamp". Grebes, herons, egrets, bitterns, storks, ibises, spoonbills, swans, geese ducks, rails, crakes, gallinules, coots, cranes. Each volume of this series includes a detailed section on the eggs of the species under examination. The series, although wholely new in all aspects of its content, is modelled on Gould's Birds of Australia. "(This book) is both a serious reference book and a magnificent production, designed to give pleasure to a wide audience". This is the second volume in the ornithological volumes of The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. . Seller Inventory # 59692
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THE WRENS AND WARBLERS OF AUSTRALIA. The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. By Graham Pizzey.
Published by
Angus & Robertson Publishers. London, Sydney, Melbourne. 1982.
(1982)
ISBN 10: 020714480X
ISBN 13: 9780207144806
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Book Description Condition: new. (Hardcover, 1997). 1982 1st edition. Large 4to (219 x 2198mm). Ppxiii,343. Colour photographs, b/w line illustrations, distribution maps, bibliography. White titles to black boards, spine titled in white. Spine slightly shaken, slight use. God copy in slightly frayed dust-wrapper. This "is a major new work covering the eighty-five species generally referred to as wrens and warblers." "The assembly of birds called 'wrens and warblers' endeared themselves to the early settlers. With a nostalgia for home they called many of the birds they saw 'warbler' or 'wren', although scientifically inappropriate, because of their resemblance to the birds of the Old World. chapters include: Fairy wrens; Emu wrens; Grass wrens; Field wrens; Heath wrens; Scrub wrens; Fairy warblers; Whitefaces; Thornbills; Some aberrant warblers; Old World warblers; Chats. Each volume of this series includes a detailed section on the eggs of the species under examination. The series, although wholely new in all aspects of its content, is modelled on Gould's Birds of Australia. "(This book) is both a serious reference book and a magnificent production, designed to give pleasure to a wide audience". This is the first volume in the ornithological volumes of The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. . Seller Inventory # 59691
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