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Subject: Birding field guides
Hi
We all use field guides and they can tell us a lot, not just about birds but about birding too. I’ve just published an article on the history of Australian field guides up to Slater’s in 1970 – there were more than you might imagine. It’s
in Australian Field Ornithology and you can access it here:
https://www.birdlife.org.au/afo/index.php/afo/article/view/2262 . In case you can’t access it, I’ve attached a PDF.
Hope you enjoy it
Russell
Russell McGregor
Adjunct Professor of History
College of Arts, Society and Education
James Cook University
My latest book, Idling in Green Places: A life of Alec Chisholm, was shortlisted for the
2020 National Biography Award.
My latest Conversation piece is on what the extinction of the Paradise Parrot means to us today:
https://theconversation.com/100-years-ago-this-man-discovered-an-exquisite-parrot-thought-to-be-extinct-what-came-next-is-a-tragedy-we-must-not-repeat-171939.
My latest article, in
Historical Records of Australian Science, takes a look at Australia’s first field guide, J. A. Leach’s
An Australian Bird Book:
https://www.publish.csiro.au/HR/HR21010
