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Green Guide Spiders of Australia

Green Guide Spiders of Australia

Green Guide Birds of Australia

Behavioural insights, action photography

$19.99
ISBN
9781864363432
More Information
By Peter Rowland
Format Paperback / softback
Page Extent 96
Book Size 176 x 131 x 8 mm (H x W x D)
Imprint New Holland Publishers
Release Date 1 Aug 1998
Subject Classification The natural world, country life & pets / Wildlife: general interest / Wildlife: birds & birdwatching

Behavioural insights, action photography and your questions answered.

The Australian Green Guides have been created for wildlife enthusiasts of all ages. The most commonly asked questions are answered with particular emphasis on fascinating behavioural insights into both common and unusual creatures. The pages are alive with entertaining and informative text accompanied by exciting action photography.

Peter Rowland

Peter Rowland is author of The Photographic Guide to Birds of Australia and The Green Guide to Birds of Australia , and has contributed written and photographic material to many other wildlife books, magazines and scientific journals. In 1998 Peter was a recipient of a Whitley Award for his contribution to the Green Guide natural history series. Although born in Australia, Peter spent his childhood growing up in the south of England where he would spend hours birding in and around the woodlands and cliffs near his home. Since moving to Australia in the early 1980s, Peter worked for 20 years in the bird, reptile, mammal and terrestrial ecology departments at the Australian Museum, Sydney, as a curatorial assistant and environmental consultant. Peter has travelled extensively throughout Australia, for both work and pleasure, researching and photographing it’s amazing wildlife. Peter’s favourite fauna group is birds, but also enjoys most of the other wildlife that inhabits our planet (with the exception of mosquitoes, which absolutely love to feast on him whenever they get the chance!)