Birds of Western Australia: A Few Feathers From The West by Pam Osborn

“She’s only a woman.” Pam was wading through the shallows of Perth’s Swan River photographing birds when a couple of passing lycra-clad cyclists opined on the foolishness of hand holding such a long lens without a tripod. “She’s only a woman” was their gratuitous observation.

Despite the pedallers’ doubts on the capability of female photographers, many of the images in this book were hand held with that long lens. Conversely, many also were taken with a gimbal mount on a tripod.

This book is a celebration of the wonderous birdlife we have in Western Australia. Images range from Perth’s Swan River, Rottnest Island, the Houtman Abrolhos, Shark Bay, Cape Range, the Ningaloo coast and Broome.

If you find any errors in species identification, have some mercy. We are mere shutter jockeys not ornithologists. All errors are entirely are our own and feedback is most welcome as we will update and correct this book from time to time.

ANZEC Member - Wayne Osborn

Wayne has been an active SCUBA diver and Underwater Photographer since 1974. He resides in Perth, Western Australia with his wife Pam. They have an interest in whale conservation and have travelled to the Azores, the Great Barrier Reef and Tonga to document sperm, minke and humpback whales. Wayne and Pam donate many of their images to whale researchers and have documented the migration of humpback whales along the Western Australian coast since 2006. Pam has photographed 2,500 individual humpbacks in that time. Their images have been included in numerous reference books and Wayne's image of a dwarf minke whale is on the cover of the 2nd edition of Marine Mammals of the World.Wayne was the Australian Geographic Australasian Nature Photographer of the Year in 2012.They have published a number of iBooks including "In Pursuit of Whales" and "A Long Lens in Africa - Birds of East & Southern Africa."