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References

Websites

• Birds Australia
  Birds Australia works to facilitate research, conservation and enjoyment of native birds and their habitat in the Australasian Region.
  http://www.birdsaustralia.com.au

• Backyard Birdwatch ABC Science
  http://www2.abc.net.au/science/birds/default.htm

• Birding NSW
  (formerly the NSW Field Ornithologists Club Inc)
  http://www.cboc.org.au

• BIRDNET
  The Onithological Information Source
  http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET

• Bird Observers' Club of Australia
  www.birdobservers.org.au

• Birds of the Australian National Wildlife Collection
  www.anwc.csiro.au/ANWCbirds

• Birdwatching in Sydney
  with the Cumberland Bird Observers' Club
  http://www.cboc.org.au

• The Life of Birds
  (Sir David Attenborough) on PBS America
  http://www.pbs.org/lifeofbirds/

• Ornithology.com
  http://www.ornithology.com

• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
  http://www.nmnh.si.edu/vert/birds/birds.html

Books

• Blakers, M., Davies, S.J.J.F., Reilly, P.N., Atlas of Australian Birds, Melbourne University Press 1985

• Cayley, N.W., What Bird is That? Angus and Robertson, Melbourne 1973

• Christidis & Boles, Taxonomy & Species of Birds of Australia & its Territories, RAOU, Melbourne 1994

• Dengate, J., Attracting Birds to your Garden, New Holland Publishers Pty Ltd 1997

• Garnett, ed., Threatened & Extinct Birds of Australia, RAOU

• Higgins, P.J., et. al. (eds), Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (HANZAB), Oxford University Press. (7th and final volume due end of 2004)

• MacDonald, J.D., Birds of Australia, Reed Books, NSW 1992

• Pizzey, G. & Knight, F., Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, Harper Collins (Australia) 1998

• Schodde, R. (ed.), Readers Digest - Complete Book of Australian Birds, Readers Digest, Sydney 1986

• Simpson, K. & Wilson, Z., Birdwatching in Australia & New Zealand, New Holland/Struik 1999

• Simpson, K. & Day, N., The Princeton Field Guide to Birds of Australia, Princeton Univ Press, 5th edition 1996

• Slater, P., Slater, P. & Slater, R., The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds, New Holland/Struik 2003

• The Bird Observer, Magazine of the Bird Observers Club of Australia

• Wingspan, Magazine of Birds Australia

Organisations

• Birds Australia
  415 Riversdale Road, Hawthorn East, 3123 (tel. 9882 2622) (formerly Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union)

• Bird Observers Club of Australia
  PO Box 185, Nunawading, 3131 (tel. 9877 5342)

• Gould League of Victoria
  PO Box 117, Moorabbin 3189 (tel. 9532 0909)

• Discovery Centre
  Lower Ground Floor, Melbourne Museum (tel. 8341 7111)

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