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Wild Guide to Moreton Bay and adjacent coasts : A Queensland Museum Wild Guide

By: Peter Davie

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Australia, Queensland Museum: 2010

Seller ID: 9780980753387

ISBN: 0980753384

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

This new edition of the Queensland Museum's best-selling, popular guide celebrates the fascinating marine life and outstanding natural environments of the Moreton Bay and southern Queensland. Now published in two volumes, the Wild Guide to Moreton Bay highlights more than 1500 species of animals and plants in easy-to-read accounts and stunning photographs.
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Whale Watching in Australian and New Zealand Waters 4th Edition

By: Peter Gill and Cecilia Burke

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, New Holland Publishers: 2017

Seller ID: A1350

ISBN: 1925546063

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

In recent years whale watching in Australia and New Zealand has become a passion for many people. Both countries are home to numerous species of whales and dolphins. There are now established whale watching tour operators in many coastal towns making it much easier to observe these magnificent animals in their natural habitat. This updated edition features: new species information; conservation status (eg. endangered vs safe); species updates; whale watching sites updated (including the Gold Coast). This definitive easy to follow guide is for all adventurous holiday makers, amateur naturali...
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The Australian Bird Guide

By: Peter Menkhorst and Danny Rogers and Rohan Clarke

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Australia, CSIRO Publishing: 2017

Seller ID: 9780643097544

ISBN: 0643097546

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

The most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated field guide to Australiaâ€™s unique birdlife. Australiaâ€™s avifauna is large, diverse and spectacular, reflecting the continentâ€™s impressive range of habitats and evolutionary history. With specially commissioned paintings of over 900 species, The Australian Bird Guide is the most comprehensive field guide to Australian birds ever seen. The guide features around 4700 colour illustrations, with particular emphasis on providing the fine detail required to identify difficult groups and distinctive plumages. Comprehensive s...
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A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia Third Edition

By: Peter Menkhorst and Frank Knight

Price: $45.95

Publisher: Australia, Oxford University Press: 2010

Seller ID: A1264

ISBN: 0195573951

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

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 of mammals known in Australia. This book provides concise and accurate details of the appearance, diagnostic features, distribution, habitat, and key behavioural characteristics of all mammals known to have occurred in Australia or its waters since the time of European settlement. Each double-page spread provides all the information needed to identify an animal, a full-colour illustration of the entire animal, a smaller diagram of diagnostic feat...
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The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds 2nd Edition

By: Peter Slater and Pat Slater and Raoul Slater

Price: $32.95

Publisher: Australia, New Holland Publishers: 2009

Seller ID: 002295

ISBN: 1877069639

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

This guide to the identification and classification of all the birds so far recorded in Australia is designed for use in the field, to slip easily into a hip-pocket, backpack, or glovebox. The illustrations have been planned to enable easy comparison between similar species. The text emphasises the best way to differentiate each species, with a key sentence setting out the most helpful characteristics to watch for. In the Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds, more than 750 species are described and illustrated in 157 superbly painted plates. The concise and informative text details the d...
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The Bee Book: Beekeeping in Australia 3rd Edition * TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK till about 24/1/2019 *

By: Peter Warhurst and Roger Goebel

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Australia, Peter Warhurst: 2013

Seller ID: 9780734503305

ISBN: 073450330X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

The bee book by Peter Warhurst and Roger Goebel has been written and compiled by beekeepers who are also apiary officers of the Dept of Primary Industries & Fisheries, Queensland. It draws on their personal experience and that of other beekeepers, as well as over 100 years of departmental research and experience. This practical, readable and comprehensive book contains detailed information on honeybees and on every aspect of responsible, successful beekeeping, whether as a hobby, a part-time occupation or a commercial operation. It also covers the special requirements of managing hives i...
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Birds of Prey of the World [used book]

By: Philip Burton

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Australia, Mallard Press: 1990

Seller ID: 002367

ISBN: 1863250697

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Birds of Prey is a comprehensive guide to one of the most fascinating and varied of all groups of birds. It is fully illustrated throughout in superb colour, and its clear, concise text will appeal to armchair naturalists and serious ornithologists alike. The book includes: Full colour illustrations of all 286 bird of prey species, showing breeding plumage and variations. Maps showing the distribution of each species, including summer and winter ranges and migrations routes of the migrant species. Descriptions of the birds' habitats, specializations, courtship, mating and family behaviour....
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Australian Snakes: A Natural History

By: Richard Shine

Price: $36.95

Publisher: Australia, New Holland: 1998

Seller ID: A1080

ISBN: 1876334258

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

This book is not a field guide: rather it is an insight into the biology and life history of snakes in and around Australia. It opens the door on an exciting and relatively new area of research. Dr Shine has pioneered much of this work himself and may be considered Australia's foremost authority on snakes. Although the foundations of this book are truly scientific, it has a light and easy style, peppered with amusing and occasionally alarming anecdotes. It is a book for the curious general reader and for zoologists and ecologists everywhere. About the Author: Rick Shine, AM FAA, is a La...
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The Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia Second Edition

By: Richard Thomas and Sarah Thomas and David Andrew and Alan McBride

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Australia, CSIRO Publishing: 2011

Seller ID: 004027

ISBN: 0643097856

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

First published in 1994, The Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia was the first ever book of its type in Australia - a complete guide to locating every resident bird species in Australia, plus suplementary information on where to finnd rarities, migratory species and logistical information. This fully revised second edition expands on the best-selling appeal of the first, describing the best-known sites for all of Australia's endemic birds, plus vagrants and regular migrants such as seabirds and shorebirds. It covers all states and territories, and is the first guide to include ...
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Tropical Marine Fishes of Australia: A Guide for waters from the Abrolhos Islands to Lord Howe Island

By: Rick Stuart-Smith and Graham Edgar and Andrew Green and Ian Shaw

Price: $44.95

Publisher: Australia, New Holland Publishers: 2015

Seller ID: 004501

ISBN: 1921517611

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Covering almost 1,100 species, often with multiple images for important life stages, this field guide represents the most comprehensive collection of the tropical fishes found on Australian reefs, including the Great Barrier Reef, Coral Sea, Ningaloo Reef, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Many of the species covered are also found widely throughout the Indo- Pacific, from the Red Sea, up to Japan and across to French Polynesia, and travellers will also find this book handy, particularly for popular tropical South Pacific destinations. Authors Rick Stuart-Smith, Graham Edgar, Andrew Green a...
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The Australian Beekeeping Manual

By: Robert Owen

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Australia, Exisle Publishing: 2015

Seller ID: 9781921966880

ISBN: 1921966882

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The book is aimed at both the novice and experienced beekeeper in Australia and explains in detail the steps required to manage colonies of bees. Supported by over 350 photographs and drawings, each action to be performed is explained in detail with photographs showing the steps as well as the final result. Many potential beekeepers are unclear about the equipment they need to buy and how to obtain their first colony of bees. The first chapters in the book explain in detail the equipment needed as well as equipment that may be useful later on as their confidence and experience grows. The chapt...
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Spiders of the Greater Brisbane Region: A Queensland Museum Pocket Wild Guide

By: Robert Raven and Owen Seeman

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Australia, Queensland Museum: 2008

Seller ID: 003424

ISBN: 0980569214

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

From a spider's viewpoint, the Greater Brisbane Region is an ideal place to live. This pocket companion is perfect for identifying and learning about the various types of spider inhabiting Brisbane, in homes, gardens and bushland. Contains images, behaviours and guides for identifying the bodies and webs of spiders such as the Grey Huntsman and the Russian Tent Spider.
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Silent Footsteps: One Woman's Journey with Elephants [used book]

By: Sally Henderson

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, MacMillan Australia: 2007

Seller ID: 000715

ISBN: 1405037881

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

In the early 1990s, Sally Henderson was invited to help establish an elephant research study near Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. She fell in love with the magnificent creatures and was rewarded with their acceptance of her - they once even saved her life when she was threatened by lions. Sally returned to Zimbabwe in 2006 to seek out the elephant herd she once knew so well, to report on their fate and that of the country she loves, but which has been torn apart by civil war. In 'Silent Footsteps', she writes beautifully of her experiences in a land that has captured so many people's imagina...
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Freshwater Fishes of the Greater Brisbane Region: A Queensland Museum Pocket Wild Guide

By: Scott Cutmore and Kevin Warburton

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Australia, Queensland Museum: 2007

Seller ID: 003431

ISBN: 0977594335

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

The rivers, dams and streams of the Greater Brisbane Region are home to some 50 species of fish, belonging to 25 different families. This pocket guide includes information on habitats, migration, threats to native fresh and introduced species. This book has two aims: firstly, hopefully increase public awareness within the Greater Brisbane region; secondly, Improve fish survey data. The "key features" section of each species account highlights features, which can easily be seen in the field, and does not require specialized equipment or expertise. Freshwater fishes is an essential guide for ho...
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Orangutan Rescue: Saving Borneo's Orangutans

By: Sean Whyte and Alan Knight

Price: $39.95

Publisher: UK, G2 Entertainment: 2015

Seller ID: 003396

ISBN: 178281535X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

"Orangutan Rescue" gives readers a unique insight into the highs and lows of rescuing and rehabilitating this species against all the odds in a remote part of Borneo. With the aid of 145-150 superb photographs, all generously donated, we aim to explain and illustrate why orangutans need our help and to document the creation in 2009 and the development over the next five years of a world-class orangutan rescue and rehabilitation centre in Borneo.We look at the rapid growth of the centre from a mere dream to a reality. We provide an insight into the work of those dedicated people who rescue oran...
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Poisonous Plants of Australia Revised Edition [used book][ex-library][rare]

By: Selwyn L. Everest

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Australia, Angus & Robertson Publishers: 1981

Seller ID: A1365

ISBN: 0207142289

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Detailed work on native, naturalised and some garden plants known to be capable of poisoning livestock or man. Targeted to graziers and farmers. Book Condition: Edges lightly soiled with slight foxing. Slight rubbing to top and bottom of spine. Ex-Library with associated covers and stickers. Slight damage to titlepage but otherwise good.
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Spotless Pets: Green solutions to stains and smells and cleaning up after your pets

By: Shannon Lush and Jennifer Fleming

Price: $19.99

Publisher: Australia, ABC Books: 2016

Seller ID: A1256

ISBN: 0733335225

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

SPOTLESS PETS is an essential guide for anyone who owns a pet, from Australia's favourite domestic gurus. The messiest member of any household is often a pet! All that hair, all those unfortunate accidents ...SPOTLESS PETS helps you solve your pet stain dilemmas and saves you oodles of money at the same time. Using inexpensive and low-toxic remedies to every pet stain imaginable, there are chapters on dogs, cats, birds, fish, small animals, exotic animals. Not only is SPOTLESS PETS packed with advice on removing stains and smells, but it covers everything from cleaning cages, tanks and bedding...
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A Complete Guide To Frogs of Australia : Australian Geographic

By: Simon Clulow and Mike Swan

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Australia, Australian Geographic: 2018

Seller ID: 9781925694918

ISBN: 1925694917

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Throughout much of the world, frog populations are declining and some species are disappearing totally. In Australia, several species have become extinct in the past 25 years. This guide provides concise accounts of all the known frogs of Australia. There are 230 species within the five native frog families: Hylidae, Limnodynastidae, Microhylidae, Myobatrachidae and Ranidae. Also included are the introduced cane toad and nine stowaway species that have arrived in Australia. The text for each species includes details of size, status, distribution, habitat, behaviour and advertisement call. Ea...
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Living with Snakes and Other Reptiles

By: Simon Watharow

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, CSIRO Publishing: 2012

Seller ID: 003637

ISBN: 064309721X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Can you tell if a snake is venomous by its colour? What is the real chance of being bitten by a snake? Can you really die in 30 seconds? Many of us have an instinctive fear of snakes and other reptiles. Over the last 200 years, we have built up a strong negative image of them, especially snakes. It is an image that has been reinforced by many fallacies and misconceptions. Living with Snakes and Other Reptiles provides a layperson's account of why these creatures behave the way they do and what makes people get into trouble. The book sheds new light on snakes, lizards and crocodiles, helps you ...
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Wild Places of Greater Brisbane Revised Edition: A Queensland Museum Wild Guide

By: Stephen Poole and Michelle Ryan

Price: $32.95

Publisher: Australia, Queensland Museum: 2009

Seller ID: 003419

ISBN: 0724271104

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

The Greater Brisbane Region encompasses some of the most diverse and beautiful natural environments in Australia - beaches, wetlands, forests and mountains. This full colour guide invites you to explore and discover more than 30 of the region's outstanding 'wild places', including national parks, state forests and conservation reserves. Described as an ideal guide to one of the worlds great nature-friendly cities, this guide is a perfect companion to the bestselling WILDLIFE OF GREATER BRISBANE.
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Category: Animals & Nature