ABG. The Australian Bird Guide.
Language: English
Published by Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2019, 2019
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second edition).Octavo, paperback, flexibound,576 pp.,colour illustrations by Jeff Davies, Peter Marsack and Kim Franklin, maps. This revision has a much improved index, with updated maps, artwork and species accounts. The CSIRO Publishing Australian bird guide (ABG) was ten years in the making. With all Australian endemics and non-endemics, described and illustrated in all plumage states, this guide will be the standard reference on Australian birds for generations. ABG contains over 4700 detailed paintings illustrating species variations including male, female and juvenile features. 927 species are described: 658 native breeding species, 89 non-breeding visitors, 154 vagrants and 26 introduced species with persisting wild populations. Using the latest taxonomy, ABG covers all species and distinctive subspecies recorded in Australia and its external territories. Each species is also given an "encounter score" that indicates how likely it is to be seen. Key identification points are labelled on the artwork to aid quick and easy identification. The publication of ABG marks the most up-to-date and comprehensive field guide of Australian birds available. Indexed by common and scientific name.…
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- Title
- ABG. The Australian Bird Guide.
- Author
- Menkhorst, Peter, Danny Rogers and Rohan Clarke.
- Publisher
- Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2019
- Publication year
- 2019
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1486311938
- ISBN 13
- 9781486311934
- Illustrator
- Davies, Jeff, Peter Marsack and Kim Franklin.
- Series
- Book 55 of 80: Princeton Field Guides
This Revised Edition includes updated maps, artwork and species accounts, reflecting current knowledge of the biology and distribution of Australia’s birds. It features around 4700 specially commissioned colour illustrations of over
The Australian Bird Guide sets a new standard in field guides, providing an indispensable reference for all birders and naturalists looking to explore Australia’s magnificent and unique birdlife.
Winner of the 2018 ABIA Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year
Winner of the 2017 Whitley Medal
Features
- Superb, specially commissioned artwork that provides a level of fine detail not found in any other Australian guides
- 4700+ detailed paintings illustrating species variations
- Coverage of all species and distinctive subspecies recorded in Australia and its external territories, using the latest
- taxonomy
- Indexed by both the common and scientific names
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About the Author
Danny Rogers started birding when he was four years old, and regrets those wasted first four years. Any birding is fun, but he has particular interests in the minutiae of plumage, moults and field identification, and in the ecology and conservation of shorebirds. He prepared many of the plumage sections in the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (OUP), did a shorebirds PhD in north-western Australia, has written or co-authored many papers and a couple of coffee-table books on shorebirds and is a waterbird ecologist at the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Victoria.
Rohan Clarke is an ecologist and ornithologist at Monash University. A birder since childhood, he has field experience with all but a couple of Australian species. He gets a kick out of birding remote island outposts and leading pelagic excursions to watch seabirds, as both present rich opportunities for new insight and discovery. He has previously authored Finding Australian Birds: A Field Guide to Birding Locations (CSIRO Publishing).
Jeff Davies is a lifelong birder who completed a Fine Arts Painting Major at Caulfield Institute of Technology. He has contributed artwork for Freshwater and Estuarine Fishes of Wilson's Promontory (Fisheries & Wildlife Div. 1983), Shorebirds of Australia (Nelson 1987), Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (OUP) and The Penguins (OUP 1995). Jeff prefers to work with water-based mediums and commissioned works can be found in private collections in Australia and North America.
Peter Marsack trained as a zoologist but has also worked extensively as a natural history artist and illustrator. He was an artist for the multi-volume Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (OUP), and a prize-winner in the inaugural Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize. His collaboration with Canberra naturalist Ian Fraser on A Bush Capital Year (CSIRO Publishing 2011) was awarded a Whitley Certificate for regional natural history.
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