New Book: Pocket Guide to Birds of Australia

Pocket Guide to Birds of Australia
by Jeff Davies, Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Peter Marsack, and Kim Franklin

From Princeton University Press:

This book is an easy-to-use and beautifully illustrated quick identification guide to all regularly occurring bird species in Australia. Carefully designed to provide key information at your fingertips to enable rapid identification, it covers more than 700 bird species that are resident or regular visitors to the Australian mainland, Tasmania, and surrounding waters accessible in a day trip by boat. Based on the award-winning Australian Bird Guide, this convenient pocket guide features stunning images, up-to-date species descriptions, distribution maps, and quick guide comparison pages for all major groups.

• Covers more than 700 species, including regular visitors
• Features a wealth of breathtaking color images by leading Australian artists
• Provides incisive species descriptions that make identification easy
• Includes quick guide comparison pages and the most up-to-date distribution maps
• Its compact size makes it the perfect travel companion

 

The Australian Bird Guide is, arguably, the best identification guide for that continent. But it’s a bit…unwieldy. This new pocket guide is a concise version of that larger guide, now allowing you to take it with you in the field. I would not recommend this pocket edition be the only field guide you use in Australia, unless you are already very familiar with the birds or are just doing some incidental birding. But if you’d like to have a good field guide with you, one that will actually fit in your pocket, this is a great choice.

 

Pocket Guide to Birds of Australia
by Jeff Davies, Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Peter Marsack, and Kim Franklin
Flexibound; 256 pages
Princeton University Press; February 7, 2023
ISBN: 9780691245492
$27.95

Posted by Grant McCreary on March 16th, 2023.