Pigeons And Doves In Australia

Author : Joseph Forshaw
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 1486304052
Total Pages : 851 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigeons and Doves in Australia written by Joseph Forshaw and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possibly the most successful urban birds, pigeons and doves in the Order Columbiformes are one of the most easily recognised groups. They are an ancient and very successful group with an almost worldwide distribution and are most strongly represented in tropical and subtropical regions, including Australia. In most species simple plumage patterns feature mainly grey and brown with black, white or dull reddish markings, but the highly colourful fruit-doves include some of the most beautiful of all birds. From dense rainforests of north Queensland, where brilliantly plumaged Superb Fruit-Doves Ptilinopus superbus are heard more easily than seen, to cold, windswept heathlands of Tasmania, where Brush Bronzewings Phaps elegans are locally common, most regions of Australia are frequented by one or more species. For more than a century after arrival of the First Fleet, interest in these birds focused on the eating qualities of larger species. In addition to contributing to declines of local populations in some parts of Australia, excessive hunting brought about the extinction of two species on Lord Howe Island and another species on Norfolk Island. In Pigeons and Doves in Australia, Joseph Forshaw and William Cooper have summarised our current knowledge of all species, including those occurring on Christmas, Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands, and with superb artwork have given readers a visual appreciation of the birds in their natural habitats. Historical accounts of extinct species are also included. Detailed information on management practices for all species is presented, ensuring that Pigeons and Doves in Australia will become the standard reference work on these birds for ornithologists and aviculturists.

Author : Joseph Forshaw
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 1486304044
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigeons and Doves in Australia written by Joseph Forshaw and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possibly the most successful urban birds, pigeons and doves in the Order Columbiformes are one of the most easily recognised groups. They are an ancient and very successful group with an almost worldwide distribution and are most strongly represented in tropical and subtropical regions, including Australia. In most species simple plumage patterns feature mainly grey and brown with black, white or dull reddish markings, but the highly colourful fruit-doves include some of the most beautiful of all birds. From dense rainforests of north Queensland, where brilliantly plumaged Superb Fruit-Doves Ptilinopus superbus are heard more easily than seen, to cold, windswept heathlands of Tasmania, where Brush Bronzewings Phaps elegans are locally common, most regions of Australia are frequented by one or more species. For more than a century after arrival of the First Fleet, interest in these birds focused on the eating qualities of larger species. In addition to contributing to declines of local populations in some parts of Australia, excessive hunting brought about the extinction of two species on Lord Howe Island and another species on Norfolk Island. In Pigeons and Doves in Australia, Joseph Forshaw and William Cooper have summarised our current knowledge of all species, including those occurring on Christmas, Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands, and with superb artwork have given readers a visual appreciation of the birds in their natural habitats. Historical accounts of extinct species are also included. Detailed information on management practices for all species is presented, ensuring that Pigeons and Doves in Australia will become the standard reference work on these birds for ornithologists and aviculturists.

Author : Frank Thomson Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780701803995
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigeons and Doves of Australia written by Frank Thomson Morris and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harold James Frith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigeons and Doves of Australia written by Harold James Frith and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. T. Kendall
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 1629987190
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigeon Religion: Holy Spirit, Is That You? written by R. T. Kendall and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2016 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't settle for a substitute.

Author : Joseph M. Forshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780958174220
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Natural History of Australian Parrots written by Joseph M. Forshaw and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the final collaboration of Joseph M. Forshaw and William T. Cooper and combines the finest Cooper artwork with an updated, authoritative Forshaw text. Presented as a deluxe edition, this book is truly a combination of art and science presenting many previously unpublished Cooper drawings, sketches and paintings. Containing more than 300 artworks, it is fully cased in grey Ballantine cloth, with black blocking and marbled endpapers. The book is landscape format printed on fine quality satin art paper and the size is 350 mm x 305 mm.

Author : Dominic Louis Serventy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birds of Western Australia written by Dominic Louis Serventy and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis Crome
Publisher : Red Kite Books
ISBN 13 : 9780207154379
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parrots & Pigeons of Australia written by Francis Crome and published by Red Kite Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of all the species of parrots and pigeons found in Australia. The text is designed for the general reader with no prior knowledge of the birds that are dealt with. Each entry provides a summary of what is known about the basic biology of the species, its habitat and distribution. Each species is illustrated and each photograph is chosen for its technical, scientific and aesthetic qualities.

Author : David Gibbs
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408135566
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigeons and Doves written by David Gibbs and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to the field identification of pigeons and doves, and it incorporates much recent information on the family. Pigeons and doves are a large family of birds occurring throughout the world. Many species are specialist frugivores, while others feed on seeds. Most are arboral and the tropical species in particular are often brightly coloured. The family includes gregarious migratory species, as well as shy, ground-dwelling forms such as the exotic crowned pigeons of New Guinea.

Author : Les Christidis
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643065113
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds written by Les Christidis and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists all those species of birds that have been recorded from the Australian mainland, Tasmania, island territories and surrounding waters. Based on theauthors' original book The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories, it includes any new species for which records have been accepted by the Records Appraisal Committee of Birds Australia. It also includes all extant and recently extinct (post-1800) native species, as well as new species, accepted vagrants and introduced species that have become established and continue to survive in the wild.