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Where to Watch Birds in Australasia and Oceania [Hardcover]

Nigel Wheatley (Author)

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The belt of islands leading from Australia northeastward to Hawaii offers any number of choice birders' destinations: some 20 families (cassowaries, logrunners, and honeycreepers, for instance) are endemic, while another hundred or so are common, including most of the world's birds of paradise species and an astonishing variety of sunbirds, flycatchers, and nightjars. Wheatley, an accomplished birder and writer, offers a guide to some 200 destinations, with notes on endemic and characteristic populations, other regional wildlife, and lodging and other services. --Gregory McNamee

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This vast area [covered in this volume] includes about 1,563 species of birds (16% of the world's species), and Wheatley provides advice on how to seek almost every one of them. . . . The amount of information provided in this pocket-size book is truly impressive.
(The Quarterly Review of Biology )
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable!, Jun 15 2006
By Laszlo Wagner - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Where to Watch Birds in Australasia and Oceania (Hardcover)
As usual with the series, this book does a very good job at introducing the "essential" birdwatching sites of a huge region.

Much of it is, for better or worse, devoted to describing the two biggest and most visited countries, Australia and New Zealand. Coverage of these is good, but since there are also single country guides to them you could also use those.

Where this book really becomes invaluable is its coverage of the often little-known archipelagos of Oceania: Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. Few of these countries are often visited by birders, yet even the remotest ones, like Pitcairn, are described. Since other guides to nature reserves of these island nations are basically non-existant, descriptions and maps of remote islands and forested regions are of interest to anyone with an interest in the fauna of the Pacific.

But of course, twitchers are well served too - with lists of endemics, key sites to see each one, suggested itineraries and the like.

A worthy investment for your trip!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A good beginning for the price., Jan 29 2008
By P. Reese "muncie-birder" - Published on Amazon.com
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This book is a good survey, but if you are going to want to find the birds and are serious about it you will need a better guide than this. This however is a good reference to get you started.
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