Collins Field Guide to New Zealand Wildlife
text by Terence Lindsey, photographs Rod Morris, 263pp limp, Harper Collins, Auckland 2000, RRP$39.95. Yet another beautifully illustrated guide to nature in New Zealand, this time extending to include birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, freshwater fish and selected invertebrates. (There are for example seven spiders, and many invertebrates are introduced as group rather than species.) It is in no way definitive but provides a colourful introduction to the range of native and introduced creatures in a portable format. Rod Morris’s great photographs are supplemented with contributions from other leading photographers. The author is not a local which may account for a few curiosities, such as Captain Cook discovering the Magenta petrel or taiko of the Chatham Islands, a place he never found.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 299, 1 February 2001, Page 43
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