Find Books

This only searches the 12,000+ titles on this website, not the 400,000+ books in our shops!

Mallee Fowl, The: The Bird That Builds an Incubator

H. J. Frith
ISBN: 5113fbbf6c62 Category:

$20.00

Sold Out

First Edition. pp. 136 illusts #0918

To find the pink eggs of the mallee-fowl the bird watcher – or the hunter – has to take a shovel, for they are buried deep in the soil. And the wonder is that the bird keeps this soil at the same temperature for months on end by a constant sensitive testing of the warmth with his beak and a dawn-to-dark digging and refilling of the mound. This strange hard-working life of the mallee-fowl is described by H. J. Frith, Officer-in-Charge of the Wildlife Survey Section of the C.S.I.R.O., whose long studies of a rare bird at first hand in the dry mallee scrub – years spent with note-book and camera – have become a “research classic””. He tells how the first mound-building bird was reported to Europe by Antonio Pigafetta in 1521

Additional Information

AuthorH. J. Frith
PublisherAngus and Robertson, Sydney
Year Published1962
Binding Type

Hardcover in Dustjacket (in protective sleeve)

Elizabeth’s Bookshops have been one of Australia’s premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth’s family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse.

All items can be viewed at Elizabeth’s Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle WA.
Click & Collect (no postage cost!) is available at all branches.