Canberra birders will no doubt be interested to hear the
long awaited update to Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its
Territories by Christidis and Boles is due for publication in November
Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds
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Les Christidis
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Walter E Boles
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248 pages
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Publication date: November 2007 
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Hardback - ISBN: 9780643065116 - AU
$59.95
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Description
Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds lists all those species of
birds that have been recorded from the Australian mainland, Tasmania, island
territories and surrounding waters. Based on the authors’ original book The
Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories, it includes
any new species for which records have been accepted by the Records Appraisal
Committee of Birds Australia. It also includes all extant and recently extinct
(post-1800) native species, as well as new species, accepted vagrants and
introduced species that have become established and continue to survive in the
wild.
The book provides brief explanations for taxonomic changes in the literature
and for those adopted within it, including the citations for such work. Its
geographical coverage includes Christmas Island, Cocos-Keeling Islands, Heard
Island, Lord Howe Island, Macquarie Island, Norfolk Island and the islands of
Torres Strait, and also Ashmore Reef, owing to the number of vagrant species
that have recently been reported from there. Also included are vagrants from
the Australian Antarctic Territory that have not been recorded elsewhere in
Australia or its territories.
