The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds

The Slater’s Field Guide to Australian Birds is a guide to the identification of all the birds so far recorded in Australia and is designed for use in the field, to slip easily in a hip-pocket, backpack or glove box.

The illustrations have been planned to enable easy comparison between similar species.

There are more than 750 species described and illustrated in 200 superbly painted plates.

Peter Slater Peter Slater has been interested in birds since early childhood and has studies nearly every Australian species in the field. He has written or illustrated more than 20 books on natural history. The paintings for this volume took about 6 years to complete, each bird being carefully checked for colour accuracy.