This beginner's guide from Lynnette Moon forms an authoritative and easy-to-grasp introduction to over 80 of New Zealand's best-known bird species. Though free of birding jargon and extraneous information, the text is lucid and packed with all the key facts on appearance, call, behaviour and nesting details that will enable the layperson to identify the species they see around them, from the backyard to the bush, beach and mountain. Each entry is accompanied by a succinct data panel and a full-page, full-colour portrait photograph.

About the Author

Ornithologist Lynnette Moon is the author of Endangered Birds and The Singing Island (an account of the transformation of Tiritiri Matangi Island into a bird sanctuary). Lynnette's husband Geoff Moon is one of New Zealand's foremost bird photographers and the author of several books, including New Zealand: Land of Birds, also published by New Holland.