Birds of Australia

Michael Morcombe is a professional naturalist, author and one of Australia’s outstanding nature photographers. His expert eye and highly developed photographic techniques enable him to distill all the flashing and fleeting beauty of Australia’s birds and timid, colourful bush life.

This book is both a collection of his best bird photos over a twelve-year period and a representative study of the major classes of bird life in Australian regions.

The emphasis is on action photography – birds in flight, landing, feeding and nest building. Their wing positions, colour patterns, plumage, and their quick grace and strength are frozen by Michael Morcombe’s extraordinary precise timing and by electronic flash equipment that gives an action stopping 1/7000 second flash.

Micharl Morcombe writes a brief introduction to the bird groups included in each chapter and captions which tell the story of the pictured birds. An information section includes a chart of Australian Bird Families, information on distribution of birds, maps, bibliography and index.