Hi there LK sorry for the late feedback can't recomend any on line 2 hand book stores but can recomend a couple of books. For birds try the readers digest complete guide to australian birds its a good reference guide big and a big number but you might find it at the right price anouther ripper is "a concise photographic field guide" by donald and molly trounson bit smaller and less details but still very good.
Some areas have "glovebox guides" on flaura and fauna stuff ask at the local tourism stop or department of agriculture office. Our plant bible out here is called "plants of the western division" but its expensive and if it fell of the table and hit your foot it would break your leg and it only covers plants in this half of the state.
Mook

Thanks folks.

www.abebooks.com is international and I've given it an Aussie address and can state 'destination Australia'.

So, given that please give me an author for the Reader's Digest bird book.  I haven't found it listed under that title.

I've found several books by the Trousons.

I'd welcome more suggestions:  Field guides for:  birds, animals, plants, trees, ........  Keep in mind that I want to bring these home afterwards.  

& my coming home freight will include an increased amount of ci and at least 70 lbs on the hoof of addition to my family.

Thanks JC.

I found both of those at an international online bookstore. 

Other suggestions are welcome too.

Thanks OJ.

I shall try to learn some from those before I come, but I think it will be something like 1x a week online while I'm there.  I'm more of a country type person than an urban person.  

& that's why I want field guides.  Reading for while cooking.

But if you have fav. live webcam sites, I might learn some birds, et al from them.  I've found one where the site owner puts out bird feed daily, one live nest cam for white bellied sea eagle, and video review site for peregrine falcons.   The bird feed one gets mostly galah and sulfur crested cockatoos.

Ah, Mook, I'se been kicking around a few years.

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Avian Pie

Agricultural nuisance birds the size of a starling.*

12 Starlings, plucked and dressed
1 medium sized onion
2 whole cloves
Browned flour (as you would do for a cream sauce)
Salt and pepper to your diet
Biscuit dough.

With meat cleaver or scissors break back of birds.  Put in pan with onion and cloves an simmer 2 hours or until leg can easily be pulled from test bird  

Preheat oven to 400'F Mix biscuit dough and roll out 3/8" thick (hmm, 1 cm?)

Put birds and onion in camp oven.  Mix browned flour with liquid and heat, while stirring for a couple of minutes.  Pour over birds.  Cover with biscuit dough crust.

Bake at 400 for 10 minutes.  Lower temp to 350 and bake another 10 minutes.

I’d be sorely tempted to add bits of traditional stew veggies - cabbage, carrot, turnip, potato, onion, and sprinkle flour over all.  Then  put the whole thing in camp oven and cook @ 350'F for 2 hours  

The Little House Cookbook by Barbara M. Walker, p. 44.  Based on books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

The question is, should the birds be galah or sulfur crested cockatoos?