Lloyd Neilsen’s bird books

Birds of the Wet Tropics of Queensland & Great Barrier Reef & Where to Find Them

Lloyd Neilsen

Second edition, 2015. Self-published, it is available from your favourite local bookshop or Neilsen’s own site.

Birds of the Wet Tropics is a field guide to 451 birds found in our region, and its unique feature is that it is arranged primarily by observable features – black plumage, red eye, forked tail, etc – rather than family and genus.

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A Guide to Wildlife and protected areas of the Top End

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Lindley McKay

Environment Centre NT, 2017

This handsomely produced book is the result of an ambitious project undertaken by the Environment Centre of the Northern Territory. It will be a valuable resource for years to come, not only for Territorians but for anyone living in, or visiting, North Queensland and Northern WA.

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A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia

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A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia

Robert Whyte and Greg Anderson

CSIRO publishing, 2017
Paperback $49.95; e-books also available.

As regular readers will be aware, I like spiders as well as butterflies and birds. I was very pleased when I heard the first hints that a new guide to them might be on the way, the more so since the author-to-be was my regular mentor in all things arachnological through his site Arachne.org and the Spiders of Australia flickr group. When he asked whether he could use a couple of my photos Continue reading “A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia”