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Melbourneâs Wildlife - New field guide - glen - 05-12-2006
Melbourne's Wildlife - New field guide
Melbourne's Wildlife: A field guide to the fauna of Greater Melbourne was recently launched at the Melbourne Museum. It provides a complete reference guide to fauna in the Greater Melbourne area.
This wonderful book was published by Museum Victoria in conjunction with CSIRO Publishing. It contains colour photograph of 700 species and a short description of the behaviour, habitat and distribution of each animal.
The publication also includes extensive maps to find wildlife such as koalas, platypus, and lyrebirds.
"Melbourne's Wildlife is the first time so much of Melbourne's unique wildlife has been included in a publication," said Dr Robin Hirst, Director Collections, Research and Exhibitions, Museum Victoria.
"I'm also especially pleased that we have been able to utilise the research undertaken by Museum Victoria's scientists to contribute to this exquisite publication."
Melbourne's Wildlife is on sale at the Melbourne Museum shop. It can also be purchased online from CSIRO [url="http://www.publish.csiro.au"]http://www.publish.csiro.au[/url] (RRP $39.95).
You can get a free sample of the book here:
[url="http://www.publish.csiro.au/samples/MelbournesWildlife_sample.pdf"]http://www.publish.csiro.au/samples/Melbou...life_sample.pdf[/url]