Albatross - Brolga - Cassowary - Cockatoo - Cormorant - Cuckoo - Emu - Gull - Owl - Parrot - Pigeon - Penguin - Plover - Mutton bird - Shearwater - Teal - Tern - Swallow - Pelican - Kingfisher - Dove - Ibis; Volume 1: Non-passerines; Volume 2: Passerines_______________

Identification guide based on skeletal remains, scats, tracks, diggings and food remains; Chap.6; Aboriginal tracking, describes Aboriginal representations of tracks in art works and gives examples of reproductions in sand made by Pitjantjatjara at Indulkana.

This volume traces the 300-year history of bird art in Australia, from the crudely illustrated records of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available at the start of the 21st century. It is a history inseparable from the development of Australian ornithology. Against a background of establishment of the country itself, naval draftsmen, convicts, officers, settlers, naturalists, artists and scientists alike contributed both to the art and to science.

Australian Bird Names is aimed at anyone with an interest in birds, words, or the history of Australian biology and bird-watching. It discusses common and scientific names of every Australian bird, to tease out the meanings, which may be useful, useless or downright misleading! The authors examine every species: its often many-and-varied common names, its full scientific name, with derivation, translation and a guide to pronunciation. Stories behind the name are included, as well as relevant aspects of biology, conservation and history. Original descriptions, translated by the authors, have been sourced for many species. As well as being a book about names this is a book about the history of ever-developing understandings of birds, about the people who contributed and, most of all, about the birds themselves. 2013 Whitley Award Commendation for Zoological Resource.

This comprehensive account of arid-land ecosystems will be of importance to university teachers and professional ecologists throughout the world.