New Edition - Completely Revised and Updated.
- All of Australia's birds comprehensively described - including 15 new species - plus verified migrants, escaped captives and rare visitors.
- 640 pages; 745 colour photographs; 654 new distribution maps.
- Enlarged feature section - The Life of Birds - reveals the functions of feathers and plumage colours, and the behaviour patterns, physiology, courtship rituals, nesting methods, territorial maintenance and other factors that help to distinguish the species.
- Revised and updated text written by members of the CSIRO's Division of Wildlife and Rangelands Research and international experts, following the very latest classification and distribution research of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.
