BIRDS AND WILDLIFE

   This lavishly illustrated guide describes 55 of the best sites for viewing both common and rare species in Australia. Alongside a map of the ar...

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...

Working for years in his studio and in the field, internationally acclaimed photographer Tim Flach has portrayed nature's most alluring creatures a...

Far from the cosy domestic lives our pet budgies live today, the native budgerigar has lived millennia of boom-bust cycles in the arid inland of Au...

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...

Bec Crew is a Sydney-based science communicator with a love for weird and wonderful animals. From strange behaviours and special adaptations to new...

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 comprehensive guide to the country’s butterflies covering everything from the eye-catching Common Jezabel and Ulysses Butterfly, to the gigantic ...

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 ...

A key feature of the text is the "gee whiz" spreads which answer many of themost commonly asked questions about why snakes and other reptiles do wh...

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 th...