The Internet of Animals: Discovering the Collective Intelligence of Life on Earth by Martin Wikelski
Category: Natural History
For readers of An Immense World, this thrilling book unveils a new scientific technology that tracks animal movements from space and 'could fundamentally reshape the way we understand the role of mobility on our changing planet'. -The New York Times Animal senses are finely tuned to their environments. ...Show more
The Australian Bird Guide: Revised Edition by Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke
Category: Natural History | Series: CSIRO
A new in-depth field guide to Australian birds The Australian avifauna is large, diverse, and spectacular, reflecting the continent's impressive habitats and evolutionary history. Looking at more than 900 species, The Australian Bird Guide is the most comprehensive field guide on Australian birds avail ...Show more
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia 9th Edition by G Pizzey, F Knight, S Pizzey
Category: Field Guides | Reading Level: General Adult
Bird guide that records the various species and population distribution of birds in Australia, first published in 1980. This 7th edition includes over 750 revised distribution maps, over 2500 large individual bird portraits and revisions to 26 colour plates, including 5 species illustrated for the first ...Show more
Getting to Know the Birds in Your Neighbourhood: A Field Guide by Darryl Jones
Category: Natural History
Interested in birds but don’t know where to start? Overwhelmed by the bird guides? Want to know more about the birds you see around you? Then this is the book for you!Getting to Know the Birds in Your Neighbourhood is the first complete beginners’ field guide to the birds you are most likely to see in t ...Show more
Wildlife of the Box-Ironbark Country by Chris Tzaros
Category: Natural History
Gives a comprehensive overview of the ecology of the box-ironbark habitats and their wildlife. It covers mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs that occur in the region. This book is intended for conservation and wildlife workers, teachers, students, naturalists and those interested in learning about and ap ...Show more
Australian Falcons: The secret lives of our fastest birds of prey by Sally Elmer
Category: Field Guides
"More than 50 years in the making, Australian Falcons is a beautifully illustrated volume of personal observations, interesting encounters with raptors, and detailed descriptions of behaviour that will inform and delight the reader. The late great Peter Slater needs no introduction as one of Australia’s ...Show more
The Life of Birds by David Attenborough
Category: Natural History
A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic. BIRDS. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightn ...Show more
The Backyard Beekeeper, 5th Edition - An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden by Kim Flottum
Category: Natural History
Enjoy the time-honored tradition of beekeeping in your own backyard or urban rooftop with this accessible resource for beekeepers of all skill levels, now in its 5th edition. More than a guide to beekeeping, The Backyard Beekeeper features expert advice for: Setting up and caring for your own coloni ...Show more
Humpback Highway: Diving Into the Mysterious World of Whales by Vanessa Pirotta
Category: Natural History
I entered the water quietly and saw two humpback whales sleeping diagonally in the distance. Two school buses just hanging in space ... Acclaimed wildlife scientist Vanessa Pirotta has been mugged by whales, touched by a baby whale and covered in whale snot. In Humpback Highway, Pirotta’s enthusiasm an ...Show more
Birds - Deluxe Series: Deluxe Series by Simon Papps
Category: Natural History | Series: Deluxe Ser.
The second title in the new and lavish ‘Deluxe’ natural history series from Reed New Holland, this book is packed with sumptuous photography of more than one hundred of the world’s most amazing bird species. So many people watch birds, perhaps because they can be seen almost anywhere. Look out of any wi ...Show more
Guide to Native Bees of Australia by Terry Houston
Category: Natural History
Bees are often thought of as yellow and black striped insects that live in hives and produce honey. However, Australia's abundant native bees are incredibly diverse in their appearance and habits. Some are yellow and black but others have blue stripes, are iridescent green or wasp-like. Some are social ...Show more
What the Trees See: A wander through millennia of natural history in Australia by Dave Witty
Category: Natural History
The trees around us - some we may walk past every day - tell a story. The mallee box by the twelfth hole of North Adelaide Golf Course evokes a time when Adelaide was clothed in mallee scrub and desert senna. Brisbane' s remnant blue gum, growing by the botanic gardens, indicates a time when the city wa ...Show more