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Birds of the Wet Tropics of Queensland & Great Barrier Reef & Where to Find Them

Lloyd Nielsen

2015

"This comprehensive field guide covers two World Heritage areas. It is based on the concept of identifying birds by colour, habits or habitat. Every bird is accurately illustrated by the author and includes the status and range of all 451 species recorded from Queensland's Wet Tropics. There is a section on the best birding areas from Cooktown to Townsville with maps, directions and birds likely to be seen and other birdwatching tips."

Regional Field Guide to Birds: Central East Coast and Ranges

Graham Pizzey and Frank Knight

Pocket Edition

2013

"The Pizzey & Knight regional birding guides are easy to use, handy and portable field guides for beginner and experienced birdwatchers alike. Designed to complement Australia's best-selling The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, now in its 9th edition, each regional guide includes every bird found within the region, organized by the environments they are most likely to be seen in, and all beautifully illustrated by Frank Knight. Concise text highlights the key features of every species and an illustrated index helps to find your bird quickly. Accompanied by an introduction to the region's habitats, these guides are an essential companion for anyone out in the field and wanting to become more familiar with Australia's natural world. Regional Field Guide to Birds: Central East Coast and Ranges covers Newcastle (NSW) in the south to Gladstone (Queensland) in the north."

Regional Field Guide to Birds: Red Centre To Top End

Graham Pizzey and Frank Knight

Pocket Edition

2013

"The Pizzey and Knight regional birding guides are easy to use, handy and portable field guides for beginner and experienced birdwatchers alike. Designed to complement Australia's best-selling The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, now in its 9th edition, each regional guide includes every bird found within the region, organized by the environments they are most likely to be seen in, and all beautifully illustrated by Frank Knight. Concise text highlights the key features of every species and an illustrated index helps to find your bird quickly. Accompanied by an introduction to the region's habitats, these guides are an essential companion for anyone out in the field and wanting to become more familiar with Australia's natural world. Regional Field Guide to Birds: Red Centre to the Top End covers all of the Northern Territory and adjacent seas. The book is also relevant to areas immediately adjacent to the Northern Territory in Western Australia such as the Kunnanurra region which is a key visitor destination, and national parks along the border in Queensland."

Birds of Moreton Bay

Greg Czechura

2012

70 page guide with colour photographs that describes the species that can be seen in the bay region.

Bribie Birds

Trevor Ford

2010

Where to Find Birds in North-East Queensland

Jo Wieneke

2010

A guide to over 90 birding sites in NE Queensland. Also includes a checklist of approximately 400 species for the area with notes on status and distribution.

Birds of Brisbane

Greg Czechura

2008

70 page guide with colour photographs that describes over 100 species that can be seen in the city.

Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape

Editor: Nigel Stork & Stephen M. Turton

2008

"This book brings together a wealth of scientific findings and ecological knowledge to survey what we have learned about the "Wet Tropics" rainforests of North Queensland, Australia. This interdisciplinary text is the first book to provide such a holistic view of any tropical forest environment, including the social and economic dimensions. The most thorough assessment of a tropical forest landscape to date Explores significant scientific breakthroughs in areas including conservation genetics, vegetation modeling, agroforestry and revegetation techniques, biodiversity assessment and modeling, impacts of climate change, and the integration of science in natural resource management Research achieved, in part, due to the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management."

Where to find Birds in North East Queensland

Jo Wieneke

2007

"Now in its fourth edition, this is an up-to-date guide to the birds and top birding sites from Bowen, north to Townsville, Cairns and the Daintree River and west to the Atherton Tableland. Over 400 birds listed with notes on their status, distribution range and preferred habitat. Detailed descriptions of over 90 localities in north-east Queensland, both on and off the beaten track."

Discovering Birds: Brisbane and Surrounds

Michael Morcombe

2007

"Finally, a book that supremely captures the birds that inhabit Brisbane and the surrounding regions - written by Michael Morcombe, expert author of Field Guide to Australian Birds, Australia's most comprehensive guide. With the bird list for the Greater Brisbane area representing about half of Australia's total species."

Wildlife of Greater Brisbane

Editor: Michelle Ryan

2nd edition

2007

"Residents of the Greater Brisbane Region are privileged to live in one of the richest natural environments in Australia. From high mountain rainforest to the barest cityscape, the region is home to an astonishing variety of wild creatures, large and small, seen and unseen. Worms, snails, spiders, insects, fish, frogs, lizards, snakes, birds and mammals, many of them rare or endangered, survive alongside the region's 2.8 million human inhabitants, sharing their homes, backyards, parks and bushland. Whether biting ants, brilliantly coloured birds, or tiny marsupial mice, the native animals are impossible to avoid. This new edition of one of Australia's most successful wildlife guides features 100 extra pages of easy-to-read information and hundreds of brilliant, new full colour photographs. It describes the animals most likely to be encountered by residents and naturalists alike, and is a must-have book for anyone who cares about Australian wildlife."

Birds Of Australia's Top End

Denise Goodfellow

2005

"A field guide for residents and visitors to the Top End of Australia. This book is well regarded in the Top End where it serves as the most comprehensive bird book. It also has international appeal to those seeking to visit this part of Australia where the wildlife really is still wild. This second edition builds on the first which, besides acting as an invaluable identification guide, also passes on snippets of fascinating Aboriginal information in regard to the birds and the landscape. There has been considerable updating of information throughout the book for this new edition."

Sea Birds and others of the Great Barrier Reef, Australasia, South Pacific and Indian Ocean

Neville Coleman

1997

Birds Of Queensland's Wet Tropics & Great Barrier Reef Australia And Where To Find Them

Lloyd Nielsen

1996

"The Wet Tropics and Great Barrier Reef region of north-eastern Queensland is home to over half of Australia's bird species. Now each of these 433 species can be accurately identified in the field with this unique guide, which is divided into three easy-to-use sections. This book enables you to identify birds from their observed features (i.e. long tail or bill, crest, etc) Included is a section on how to distinguish similar species. There are maps and easy-to-follow directions to help you find the best locations. Each area's facilities and notable bird species are described. This book has the latest data, including status, habitat and distribution of each bird, and listed in official classification sequence."

Birds of Bribie Island, Pumicestone Passage and Environs

Editor: Beverley Durrant, Ian MacRae

Birds of Lamington National Park and Environs: A Guide's Guide

Lloyd Nielsen

Birds Of New Guinea And Tropical Australia

William S. peckover and L.W.C. Filewood

1976

List Of Queensland Birds

G.M. Storr

Western Australian Museum

1973

"In March 1967 I began to search the literature for information on Queensland birds - their distribution, ecological status, abundance, habitat preferences, movements, and taxonomy. No single date can be given for the closure of the manuscript; extracting for ratites effectively ceased in November 1970 when I commenced the species summaries, but data on certain passerines were still being incorporated as late as March 1972."

Wild Ducks and Other Waterfowl in Queensland

H.J. Lavery

1971

58 pages with b/w photographs and drawings and charts. Based on articles originally published in the Queensland Agricultural Journal.

Birds of Brisbane and Environs

1968 (reprint 1977)

130 page guide.

List Of Birds In Queensland

H.J. Lavery

1967

130 page guide.

Birds of Cape York Peninsula: Ecological notes, field observations, and catalogue of specimens collected on three expeditions to north Queensland

Donald F. Thomson

1935

Introduction:

"The field observations and notes on geographical distribution presented in this paper embody the results of three expeditions, occupying a total of three years, carried out on Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland, under the auspices of the University of Melbourne. The primary objective of these expeditions was anthropological research, but a considerable amount of general zoological work was also carried out, largely from the stand-point of geographical distribution. Moreover, I am of the opinion that, for the ethnographer, especially in Australia where the relation between man and nature is a peculiar and specialized one, an intimate knowledge of the natural history of the area in which he is working is essential to an understanding of the totemic beliefs of the people, and therefore should form a part of the problem presented by a study of the Aboriginal."

On some Birds and Eggs lately collected at Cape York, Queensland, by Mr. H. G. Barnard

D. Le Souef

Ibis: Volume 40, Issue 1, pages 51-59

1898

Opening lines:

"Talegallus purpureicollis sp. nov. Cape York. (Barnard's Talegallus.) This species is found in the Capc York Peninsiula. Mr. K. Broadbent observed it during his extended visit there some years ago. Mr. Jardine, of Somerset, Cape York, and Mr. H. G. Barnard have lately noticed the variation between it and thc southern form, and the latter has kindly sent me some skins."