''Bird Life'' is a book written by Australian

ornithologist Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

Ian Rowley and published by Collins (Australia) in 1975 as part of its Australian Naturalist Library series. It was issued in octavo format (224 x 150 mm), containing 284 pages, bound in brown cloth with a dust jacket illustrated by a painting of a

superb fairy-wren The superb fairywren (''Malurus cyaneus'') is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae, and is common and familiar across south-eastern Australia. It is a sedentary and territorial species, also exhibiting a high degree of se ...

. The book is illustrated with numerous photographs, drawings and diagrams and is dedicated by the author: “To my father Duncan Rowley who kindled my interest in birds”.Rowley (1975).

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* * 1975 non-fiction books Ornithological literature Books about Australian birds William Collins, Sons books {{Bird-book-stub