What Bird is That

A Guide to the Birds of Australia

by Neville W. Cayley

Angus and Robertson, 1970, ISBN 0207941300, illustrated colour plates, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ inscription on front endpaper, age toned edges, clipped dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, chipping, creasing, small tears and discolouration, small parts missing at edges (see photographs)

“Everybody knows some of the more common Australian birds.  But the black-faced cuckoo-shrike, and the koel, when they fly into the suburbs? The red-tipped pardalote disappearing in a hole in a gumtree, the little brown rock-warbler, the minute thorn-bills?  These provide the fascinating problems of identification that for 37 years since it was first published have sent Australians to What Bird is That? For the answer.
The book also presents information on many subjects related to identification.  Where is this or that bird found? What is the nature of its voice?  What type of nest does it build? Is it a migrant, a nomad, or a “stayput”? How do the various species fit into the country’s economy?”

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