Birds of Prey of Australia: A Field Guide - Softcover

Debus, Stephen

9780643104365: Birds of Prey of Australia: A Field Guide

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0643104364 ISBN 13: 9780643104365

Verlag: CSIRO Publishing, 2012

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* High-quality illustrations
* Easy to use and read, enabling rapid identification of difficult raptors
* Provides a ready summary of biological information on Australian raptors, and a lead-in to the latest scientific literature on them

This book is an illustrated field guide to diurnal raptors, a bird group that many people find among the most difficult birds to identify. Raptors are popular and iconic birds, and important ecologically as well as in legislation, with some species listed as threatened. Birds of Prey of Australia will enable people to more easily identify them. It also provides a brief overview of the biology of raptors and an indication of the current state of knowledge on them.

The book has been completely revised and updated, with 15 years of new data, a section on difficult species-pairs (split-images providing direct contrast), and rearranged in modern field-guide format, making it easy to use and enabling rapid identification of "difficult" raptors.

Birds of Prey of Australia will appeal to a wide range of readers.

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Stephen Debus has undertaken research on and written about raptors for 30 years. He completed a PhD and postdoctoral research in Zoology, on declining woodland birds. Stephen recently reviewed the conservation status of various birds for NSW Department of Environment and Heritage. He now works as an ecological consultant, and is an honorary research associate at UNE, doing projects on various raptors. He co-edits the BOCA journal Australian Field Ornithology, edits the Australasian Raptor Association (ARA) journal Boobook, and serves on the Australian Bird Study Association committee (handling the raptor special issues of Corella). Stephen has authored field guides on raptors and owls, contributed to ARA conference proceedings and participated in several Red Goshawk projects.

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