THIS useful book is intended as a pocket-book for field use to enable teachers and observers generally to name the birds they meet with. It deals with 395 species—a considerable proportion of the ...

These charming children’s books are not actually sold together as a single conservation four-pack for kids, but I think of them this way because they all deal with a variety of conservation issues ...

First published in 1931, What Bird Is That? became a standard for budding Australian bird watchers. Author Neville Cayley’s impetus was to encourage and inspire people to appreciate and recognise our ...

The sun was sinking over the Mary River floodplain when the noise finally settled. Thousands of plumed whistling-ducks had dropped into the billabongs, brolgas drifted across the glowing horizon, and ...

When you went out today, did you see any birds? A galah perhaps, or a crow? If you did, there’s a decent chance the bird you saw lives nowhere but Australia. Out of about 850 species found in ...