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The Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines (book review)
Pacific Conservation Biology, Vol.7(2), pp.146-148
Surrey Beatty & Sons
2001
Abstract
This large, expensive and beautifully produced volume arrived on my desk in October 1999. There it has sat while I awaited it to be reviewed elsewhere. My intention was, and is, to not only review the book, but to review the reviews. I now have reviews by Allan Burbidge and John Blyth (Western Australian Bird Notes 95: 3-5), Walter Boles (Australian Zoologist, in press), w. (Ted) Davis (The Wilson Bulletin, in press), Stephen Debus (Australian Bird Watcher 18: 320-321), Ned Johnson (The Condor 103: 200), and Allen Keast (Emu 100: 341-2). Of these, Boles, Johnson and Keast are recognised avian systematists, while Burbidge, Blyth, Davis and Debus, as I am, are just plain old ornithologists. I say this because an Australian avian systematist once told me that I had no right to comment on the names of Australian birds because I was only an ecologist, but that has never stopped me before and will not now, and it appears that I am in good company.
Details
- Title
- The Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines (book review)
- Authors/Creators
- H.F. Recher (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Pacific Conservation Biology, Vol.7(2), pp.146-148
- Publisher
- Surrey Beatty & Sons
- Identifiers
- 991005540072407891
- Copyright
- © Surrey Beatty & Sons
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Other
- Resource Sub-type
- Nonrefereed Article
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