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Webster's Birds of Australia includes over 1500 colour images, around 40 minutes of video, over 1800 pages of text and over 100 bird sounds. This book on CD-ROM describes the birds of Australia and their habitat, as well as surveying the variety of Australian birds and their intriguing adaptations. It contains clear and concise descriptions of all the known Australian birds, and lists every known native species. Written by Terence Lindsey and published with the assistance of the Australian Museum. Currently in its second release, contents include:
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What are Birds?
A General Description of Birds
Flightless and Ground Birds
Emus
Cassowaries
Mound-builders
Quails and Pheasants
Ocean Birds
Penguins
Albatrosses
Petrels and Shearwaters
Stormpetrels
Diving-petrels
Gannets and Boobies
Cormorants
Darters
Pelicans
Tropicbirds
Frigatebirds
Shorebirds
Jacanas
Painted-snipe
Oystercatchers
Plains-wanderer
Thick-knees
Stilts and Avocets
Lapwings and Plovers
Pratincoles
Waders
Gulls and Terns
Skuas and Jaegers
Water Birds
Grebes
Ducks, Geese and Swans
Herons and Egrets
Storks
Spoonbills and Ibises
Cranes
Rails and Crakes
Bustards
Buttonquail
Birds of Prey, Night-birds, and Swifts
Kites, Eagles and Hawks
Osprey
Falcons
Typical Owls
Barn Owls
Nightjars
Frogmouths
Owlet-nightjars
Swifts and Swiftlets
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Parrots
Lorikeets
Cockatoos
Pigeons and Doves
Cuckoos
Kingfishers and Primitive Songbirds
Bee-eaters
Dollarbirds
Kingfishers
Pittas
Lyrebirds
Scrub-birds
Insect-eaters
Swallows and Martins
Pipits and Wagtails
Larks
Cuckooshrikes
Thrushes
Whipbirds
Babblers
Robins
Whistlers
Monarch and Fantails
Warblers
Fairywrens
Thornbills and Scrubwrens
Honeyeaters, Seedeaters and Relatives
Sittellas
Treecreepers
Honeyeaters
Chats
Pardalotes
Mistletoebirds
Silvereyes
Sunbirds
Grassfinches
The Corvine Cluster
Starlings and Mynas
Orioles and Figbirds
Drongos
Magpielarks
Apostlebirds
Woodswallows
Currawongs
Bowerbirds
Birds-of-Paradise
Crows and Ravens
Introduced Species
Introduced Species
Classification
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