BIRDS AND WILDLIFE

A View from Northern Australia    

In Australia, we are fortunate that so many wild species can be seen without us having to leave our own homes. It might not occur to us just how sp...

 In Curlews on Vulture Street, acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl Jones reveals the not-so-secret lives of the most common birds that share our towns...

   A highly personal account of a phenomenal, once-in-a-lifetime adventure that saw Bruce and his wife, Lynn, embark on a year of travel and birdi...

     This new title in New Holland’s award-winning Green Guides series investigates the ever-popular subject of Australia’s seashells and other mar...

Few animals rival spiders in their diversity of forms and colour, ecological abundance and importance, and complexity of behaviours. Spiders have i...

Winner of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW Whitely Award for the Best Natural History Book 2020 and Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literar...

Leonard Cronin is one of Australia's foremost natural history authors. Trained as a biologist, he is a prolific writer of books and articles about ...

Cricket song is a sound of the Australian bush. Even in cities, the rasping calls signify Australia's remarkable cricket biodiversity. Crickets are...

Covering everything from the native Australian magpie, sulfer-crested cockatoos and the grey-headed Albratross to the native New Zealand Bellbirds,...

A Guide to Native Bees of Australia provides a detailed introduction to the estimated 2000 species of Australian bees. Illustrated with stunning ph...

Bees are the darlings of the insect world. It is a great joy to see these tenacious insects hard at work, peacefully buzzing from flower to flower ...

This text is intended as an introduction to the habitats of the spiders of Australia, and to those Australian groups that are particularly common, ...

Australia is the shark and ray "capital" of the world, with far more different species than any other country. Of the 950 known species of sharks a...

The Frillneck is one of the most recognized lizards worldwide. For the first time, a book dedicated solely to these spectacular creatures.   

Green Guide to Crocodiles will be popular with crocodile enthusiasts of all ages How dangerous are crocodiles to humans? How do crocodiles hunt the...

Raptors are popular and iconic birds, and are important ecologically, with some species listed as threatened. Yet they are among the most difficult...

This new title investigates the ever-popular subject of Australian butterflies. Early chapters explore the lifecycle of these insects, with stunnin...

The definitive guide to identifying Australian birds. the definitive and most respected guide to Australian bird identification, this book is a mus...

This fully revised and updated edition of A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia is the only comprehensive guide to identifying all 382 species ...

Mosquitoes are annoying (and can be deadly) but they can also be beautiful. This book provides a pictorial guide to almost 100 mosquito species and...