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- Tactics
- Five
Bird Watching Performance Enhancers
I've
been meaning to add to this list for so long now, but just can't seem
to get around to it. So, in the meantime, here are some links to books
in the real world you might find useful:
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Sibley's
Birding Basics seems
to be the most popular book around on how to 'do' bird watching with
kudos from both beginners and experts. |
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The Princeton
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia
a bit of a perenial classic with beautiful paintings of all 770 bird
species in Australia. More than 2000 color illustrations are accompanied
by distribution maps, descriptive drawings, and essential field information.
A bit big to fit in your pocket, but an invaluable aid while in the
field. Well worth making some space in you backpack for. |
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The
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds: Parrots to
Dollarbird - for the birdwatcher with everything, the ultimate
guide from Oxford University Press. 1056 pages covering a full list
of references, black-and-white illustrations of behavioral postures
and plumage features, maps showing breeding and non-breeding distribution,
sonograms of calls and songs, and diagrams of breeding and molting
cycles. But it all this info. comes at a price - around $US400 a copy.
And that's not all, this is only 1 of the 5 volume set (how they could
call these 'handbooks' I don't know) - for the full story you'll also
need to pick up the following volumes:
Snipe to Pigeons,
Tyrant Flycatchers to Chats,
Rarities to Ducks and
Raptors to Lapwings - all weighing in at about the same thickness
and price. |
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