Field Guide to the Birds Of Australia by Simpson & Day Softcover Book

Title: Field Guide to the Birds Of Australia by Simpson & Day Softcover Book.
Author: Nicholas Day and Ken Simpson.
Type: Non-Fiction - Ornithology.
Edition: Sixth Edition 1999.
Publisher: Penguin.
Year First Published: 1984.
Format: Softcover Book with Dustjacket.
Printed By: Midas printing Asia.
Page Count: 439 pages.
Width: 16cm
Height: 22cm
Thickness: 3.0cm
Info: The book was first published in 1984 by Lloyd ONeil as The Birds of Australia, in hardcover format with a dust jacket, 285 mm high by 215 mm wide and weighing 1.7 kg. It contained illustrations by Nicolas Day of 758 species on 128 colour plates. It was divided into three main sections, a key to bird families, the field information section with the plates opposite the relevant species descriptions and distribution maps, and the handbook with more detailed information on avian biology. The endpapers featured life-size profile drawings of the bills of albatrosses and petrels to aid the identification of beach-washed seabirds.
Although the dust jacket and title page featured Ken Simpson and Nicolas Day as coauthors, the acknowledgements principally credited Ken Simpson as Editor, Nicolas Day as Illustrator and Peter Trusler as Art Director, with several others credited as writers, contributing illustrators and in other capacities.[2]
Subsequent editions were published by Penguin Australia under the Viking imprint in a smaller size (220 mm high by 160 mm wide and only half the weight), with a flexible, waterproof, plastic cover suitable for use as a field guide, and renamed the Field Guide to the Birds of Australia. Additional developments were a rare bird bulletin section to cover vagrant and newly recorded species and to encourage users to report sightings of rarities, and the inclusion of checklists for Australia's outlying islands and external territories. From the seventh edition the handbook section was dropped and the rare bird bulletin extended.
Editions
1st - 1984
2nd - 1986
3rd - 1989
4th - 1993
5th - 1996
6th - 1999
7th - 2004
8th - 2010
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Condition: Good, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages, a used copy.
Price: R 165.00 Inc Vat.