by: Graham Pizzey
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.0994
EAN: 9780207198212
ISBN: 0207198217
Label: HarperCollinsPublishers PTY Limited
Manufacturer: HarperCollinsPublishers PTY Limited
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 608
Publication Date: May 01, 2005
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers PTY Limited
Sales Rank: 1190952
Studio: HarperCollinsPublishers PTY Limited
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
This revised edition of the classic field guide to Australian birds represents the most up-to-date, comprehensive and stunningly illustrated handbook available.
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- Quality, thick field guide with good plates and textBasics: 2003, 7th edition, softcover, 576 pages, 2,500 color illustrations of 783 species, range maps
This 7th edition is dramatically improved over its first edition created more than two decades earlier. This field guide for all Australian birds is definitely in the top three books available for the country. It is also the thickest of the three books, which is a trade-off for creating plates with larger illustrations and a more organized appearance.
The plates are of ... Read More
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- An essentialThere are quite a number of Australian Bird field guides these days. they all have merit. This one is right up there with the best and is an indispensible, easy to use essential. The Family summaries and short summary of classifications are succinct and informative - they certainly whet the appetite to learn more if the user is so inclined.
I have used Pizzey extensively ever since the first edition in 1981 (illustrations were then done by Roy Doyle). I actually preferred that first edition ... Read More
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- The standard bird field guide for australiaAs with any bird watcher, I have all the field guides to the birds of Australia. There are many and they are all good. However, my favourite (for the last few years...it does change with different editions, etc), is this, the "Pizzey and Knight". As a biology and wildlife based guide and educator in Australia, I travel all over the continent with school groups, tours and for my own recreation, so I 'road test" a lot of different field guides. I have found the illustrations in this book to consistently ... Read More
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