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Field Guide to Tasmanian Birds | Dave Watts | 2025 Updated Edition
Added: Oct 7, 2018

Field Guide to Tasmanian Birds (Updated Edition)
By Dave Watts

Long considered the essential pocket companion for local birdwatchers and visitors alike, Dave Watts’ definitive field guide is finally back in stock after months of being unavailable. This 192-page softcover provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use directory covering all major bird species found across Tasmania's diverse wilderness.


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A Life with the Birds of Tasmania – Els Wakefield (2026) [New Release Heavy Hardback Edition]
Added: Jun 6, 2026

A comprehensive modern compendium and personal memoir documenting the extraordinarily diverse birdlife of Lutruwita / Tasmania. Compiled by Els Wakefield, one of the state's most experienced lifelong birders, this heavy large-format volume acts as both a detailed reference work and a visual celebration of the island's avian fauna.


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Thylacines Out of Season
Added: Mar 30, 2026
An art book of Tasmanian tigers in strange times and places - allegorical dreams of a lost species captured in paintings by Lindsay Arnold.

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Books both current and out-of-print relating to Tasmanian nature that can be bought from in The Book Cellar / Just Tassie Books in Campbell Town, Tasmania.

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Snakes of Tasmania | Simon Fearn | QVMAG Natural History Series | 2015 [NEW – SC]

A concise guide to Tasmania's three snake species — the Tiger Snake, Lowland Copperhead and White-lipped Snake — all venomous to varying degrees. Written by Simon Fearn and published by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) as part of their Natural History Series.


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Stripes in the Forest - a thylacine story

Told from the perspective of the last wild female thylacine, this children's picture book provides readers with an insight into the rare beauty and uniqueness of the amazing Tasmanian tiger and explains their fight for survival.


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Tamar Intertidal Invertebrates - An Atlas of the Common Species

This book is a report of a distributional survey of the common intertidal invertebrate animals of the whole of the Tamar River in the north of Tasmania.


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Tarkine and Other Myths - signed
A book that describes what exists and what doesn't exist in Tasmania's Tarkine, as used by aboriginal people, or within the wider Tarkine definition used by the tourism industry. An area of great beauty despite its industrial and other uses over 150 years.

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Tasmania's Offshore Islands (Used Hardcover, Signed Limited Edition)

Rare, out-of-print 2001 TMAG first edition. Numbered special limited edition (one of only 500 copies), hand-signed by the Director. Essential Tasmanian natural history reference.


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Tasmania's Offshore Islands - Seabirds and Other Natural Features (Used Softcover)

An extensively researched, definitive natural history and field guide to 280 of Tasmania's offshore islands, focusing heavily on seabird populations, topography, and native flora. While this title is still available new at full retail price, this pre-owned softcover copy offers the exact same comprehensive data, maps, and colour photographs at excellent value for researchers, bushwalkers, and birdwatchers alike.


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Tasmanian Plant Names Unravelled | Mark Wapstra | 2nd Edition 2025

A fully revised second edition of this well-regarded Tasmanian botanical reference, first published by Mark Wapstra and now considerably expanded to 535 pages. The book explains the origins and meanings of the scientific and common names of Tasmanian plants — covering etymology, the botanists and explorers commemorated in plant names, and the history behind how Tasmania's flora came to be named and classified.


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Tasmanian Tiger - Precious Little Remains

In Tasmanian Tiger: Precious Little Remains, the reader is taken on a journey exploring the tragic consequences of European settlement on this unique and misunderstood animal.


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Tasmanian Tiger - The tragic story of the thylacine

The tragic story of how ignorance, fear and lack of caring led to the extinction of the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine.


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Tassie Nature Activity Book

For ages 4+, a book of games and activities based around Tasmanian animals and nature experiences.


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