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A Field Guide to the Birds of Australia was first published in 1980 by Collins, Sydney.It was authored by Graham Pizzey with illustrations by Roy B. Doyle. The first edition was issued in octavo format, 220 mm in height by 140 mm width, with a foreword by D.L. Serventy.
In 1970-74 Slater had produced a two-volume guide to Australian birds which was the first of the new generation of Australian field guides to appear after the Second World War. It was shortly followed by guides authored by Graham Pizzey in 1980 and by Ken Simpson and Nicolas Day in 1984. Slater's second guide continued the evolutionary ...
A Field Guide to Australian Birds is a two-volume bird field guide published by Rigby of Adelaide, South Australia, in its Rigby Field Guide series. The first volume (Volume One: Non-Passerines) was issued in 1970, with the second volume (Volume Two: Passerines) appearing in 1974.
A Field Guide to Australian Birds (Slater) A Field Guide to Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds; A Field Guide to the Birds of Australia (Pizzey)
Subsequent editions were published by Penguin Australia under the Viking imprint in a smaller size (220 mm high by 160 mm wide and only half the weight), with a flexible, waterproof, plastic cover suitable for use as a field guide, and renamed the Field Guide to the Birds of Australia.
The Compact Australian Bird Guide was published in 2022 under the lead of Jeff Davies. [17] This guide is a distillation of the information provided in the Australian Bird Guide. The aim was to provide a “concise and portable book" for field use. The compact guide is using the IOC version 11.1 for species level taxonomy. [18]
The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria's Expedition to King Island, 1887. This is a list of Australia's field naturalist clubs. These natural history and conservation societies are dedicated to the study, appreciation and conservation of the natural environment in their local regions.
The skull and nearly complete dentition of a 15-million-year-old monotreme, Obdurodon dicksoni, provide a window into the evolution of this characteristically Australian group. Fossil ancestors of the recently extinct thylacine , Thylacinus cynocephalus , have also been identified among Riversleigh's fauna.