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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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User Review  - Terri - Goodreads

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

Review: The Slater Field Guide To Australian Birds

User Review  - Troy Mutton - Goodreads

My first field guide - I still have it, falling apart though it is. The 1986 edition is the one with the "diagnostic" red dot on one of the cuckoos. Read full review

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Contents

Introduction
6
Grebes
12
Albatrosses
18
Copyright

19 other sections not shown

Common terms and phrases

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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