Beautiful birds of New Zealand
By: text by Alison Ballance ; photographs by Rod Morris
Contributors: Morris, Rod, 1951-
Publisher: Random House New Zealand
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781869418106; 9781869418107
Subjects: Birds; Pictorial works
Description: Beautiful birds of New Zealand is a celebration of beauty and diversity. It contains a very personal selection, by Alison Ballance and Rod Morris, of a hundred birds from the more than three hundred species that occur in the New Zealand region. It includes the unusual as well as the familiar, with birds from the suburbs featuring alongside species found only on remote islands, and rare natives as well as naturalised game birds.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Huia; title: Forest and islands (Sweet-toothed birds ; Parrots : Insect eaters); title: High country; title: Town and country (Out the window ; Open country); title: Wetlands and rivers; title: Sea and shore (Southern seas ; Mainland seabirds ; Flightless seabirds ; Tropical waters).