Albatrosses.

Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2008.
Octavo, paperback, 139 pp. colour photographs, text illustrations.

WAS $30. Terry Lindsay is a well known Australian ornithologist with a long term interest in seabirds. Albatrosses are largely confined to the region referred to by early mariners as the 'Roaring Forties', the Southern Ocean. This book does not discuss identification and current taxonomic problems but instead is an excellent overview on albatross biology and conservation problems. There are chapters on habitat, food and foraging, flight courtship, nesting and human impacts. Australian Natural History Series.