Identification of Seabirds in the Southern Ocean
by Derek Onley and Sandy Bartle, 82pp hardback, Te Papa Press, Wellington 1999, reprinted 2001, RRP$34.95.
Subtitled ‘a guide for scientific observers aboard fishing vessels’, this handbook is based on illustrations by Derek Onley who painted the current Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand. Notes by Sandy Bartle tell how to make identifications on land and sea. There is a simple, working system which leads from plate to plate to establish identification among these largely black and white birds. The book is published with the support of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, which presumably makes it part of the international impetus to save the seabirds of the Southern Ocean from from death as a by-
product of commercial fishing. For most of us, birdwatching in the low southern latitudes is not a prospect, so conservationists should be grateful the first edition found its target audience aboard ship and sold out so quickly.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 302, 1 November 2001, Page 44
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