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Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand (Revised edition 2005)
Description
A further revised edition of the definitive Guide to New Zealand Birds. This is the only field guide to birds that is officially endorsed by the Ornithological Society of New Zealand. Hugh Robertson has further updated the book from its revision in 2000. As well as being a comprehensive, systematic guide to identification, the book is beautifully illustrated with seventy-four pages of original colour drawings representing every bird species in New Zealand. Every detail of the bird
Table of contents
KIWI: Apterygidae; GREBES: Podicepidae; ALBATROSSES: Diomedeidae; SHEARWATERS, FULMARS, PRIONS, & PETRELS: Procellariidae; STORM PETRELS: Hydrobatidae; PENGUINS: Spheniscidae; TROPICBIRDS: Phaethonidae; PELICANS: Pelecanidae; SHAGS: Phalacrocoracidae; DARTERS: Anhingidae; FRIGATEBIRDS: Fregatidae; HERONS, EGRETS & BITTERNS: Ardeidae; IBISES & SPOONBILLS: Threskiornithidae; WATERFOWL: Anatidae; RAPTORS: Accipitridae & Falconidae; GAMEBIRDS: Phasianidae; RAILS, GALLINULES & COOTS: Rallidae; CRANES: Gruidae; PAINTED SNIPE: Rostratulidae; OYSTERCATCHERS: Haematopodidae; STILTS & AVOCETS: Recurvirostridae; PRATINCOLES & COURSERS: Glareolidae; PLOVERS, DOTTERELS & LAPWINGS: Charadriidae; SNIPE, SANDPIPERS, GODWITS & CURLEWS: Scolopacidae; PHALAROPES: Phalaropodidae; SKUAS: Stercorariidae; GULLS, TERNS & NODDIES: Laridae; PIGEONS & DOVES: Columbidae; COCKATOOS & PARROTS: Cacatuidae & Psittacidae; CUCKOOS: Cuculidae; TYPICAL OWLS: Strigidae; BARN OWLS: Tytonidae; SWIFTS: Apodidae; KINGFISHERS: Alcedinidae; ROLLERS: Coraciidae; NEW ZEALAND WRENS: Acanthisittidae; LARKS: Alaudidae; SWALLOWS & MARTINS: Hirundinidae; PIPITS: Moticillidae; CUCKOO-SHRIKES & TRILLERS: Campephagidae; BULBULS: Pycnonotidae; ACCENTORS: Prunellidae; THRUSHES: Muscicapidae; OLD WORLD WARBLERS: Sylviidae; WHISTLERS and allies: Pachycephalidae; AUSTRALASIAN WARBLERS: Acanthizidae; MONARCH FLYCATCHERS: Monarchidae; AUSTRALASIAN ROBINS: Eopsatriidae; WHITE-EYES: Zosteropidae; HONEYEATERS: Meliphagidae; BUNTINGS, CARDINALS & TANAGERS: Emberizidae; FINCHES: Fringillidae; SPARROWS & WEAVERS: Ploceidae; STARLINGS & MYNAS: Sturnidae; WATTLEBIRDS: Callaeidae; WOODSWALLOWS: Artamidae; BELL MAGPIES: Cracticidae; BIRDS-OF-PARADISE, BOWERBIRDS & PIOPIO: Paradisaeidae; CROWS & JAYS: Corvidae
Stock Information
General Fields
- : 9780143020400
- : Penguin Group (NZ)
- : Penguin Group (NZ)
- : 220x160mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Line drawings
- : 440
- : 598.0993
- : revised
- : Hardback
- : Barrie D Heather & Hugh Robertson (illus Derek Onley)
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