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The Slater field guide to Australian birds

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Rigby, Jan 1, 1986 - Nature - 343 pages

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Good reliable field guide, better than some other illustrated field guides on the market. Read full review

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If you find yourself in Australia, and wish to observe some of the lesser-known of the continent's beautiful birds, I definitely recommend using The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds. Cockatoo (p ...

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Contents

Introduction
6
Grebes
12
Albatrosses
18
Copyright

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The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds
The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds
Peter Slater,Pat Slater,Raoul Slater
No preview available - 2010
The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds: Revised and Updated
The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds: Revised and Updated
Peter Slater,Pat Slater,Raoul Slater
No preview available - 2003
The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds
The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds
Peter Slater,Pat Slater,Raoul Slater
No preview available - 2003

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2-3 spotted Adult breeding Atherton Tableland barred Bass Strait belly bill bill black birds blotched blue breast breastband brown honeyeater buff edges Cape York Cape York Peninsula chestnut cm Large cm Small coast common nomad common resident Cooktown crown cup of grass Curlew Sandpiper darker eastern Aust edges to wing eucalypt feeding Female flanks flight flocks forehead forest and woodland fork form race forms occur freckled gadfly petrel grey head hollow Honeyeater legs locally common loud mainland mainly Male mallee mangroves mottled mudflats mulga nape neck Nesting nomad non-breeding northern Aust numbers pale buff paler paperbark Parrot Petrel plumage rainforest Range rare vagrant resident or nomad rufous Sandpiper sclerophyll similar south-east south-eastern south-west southern species spinifex streaked throat throughout Aust tree twigs uncommon underparts undertail coverts underwing upperparts upperwing Usually seen Voice waders Warbler white eggs whitish wing feathers wingbeats yellow

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TitleThe Slater field guide to Australian birds
AuthorsPeter Slater, Pat Slater, Raoul Slater
Editionillustrated
PublisherRigby, 1986
Original fromCornell University
Digitized2 Jul 2010
ISBN0727020854, 9780727020857
Length343 pages
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Birds
Birds/ Australia/ Identification
Nature / Birds & Birdwatching
Nature / Birdwatching Guides
Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General
  
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