The laughing Australian: a celebration of Australia's best-loved symbol.
Melbourne: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1982. Quarto, colour illustrations, softcover. More
Melbourne: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1982. Quarto, colour illustrations, softcover. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A state-of-the-art photographic field guide to the world's oceanic birds. Oceanic birds are among the most remarkable but least known of all birds, living at sea, far from the sight of most people. They offer unusual identification challenges with many..... More
London: Christopher Helm, 2002. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. Focuses on the field identification of North American hummingbirds. Illustrated by over 200 stunning photographs picked specifically to show identification criteria. More
United Kingdom: Merlin Publications, 2008. Oblong format, paperback, colour illustrations, distribution maps. An illustrated field guide, showing all 77 species of wildfowl found in the Northern Hemisphere, male and female, Whistling ducks, Swans, Geese, Shelducks and Ducks, painted in the water and on the water. Each species account contains information..... More
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1950. Quarto, 33 colour plates by Lilian Medland. Publisher's quarter morocco, bookplate, very good copy in worn dustwrapper (piece missing from spine). More
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1950. Quarto, 33 colour plates by Lilian Medland. Publisher's quarter morocco, lacks dustwrapper, otherwise a very good copy. More
London: Blandford Press, 1989. Oblong format, colour photographs, softcover. More
London: Kegan Paul/National Wildlife Research Center, 1996. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper. This species has become endangered due to hunting. Captive breeding, by the National Wildlife Research Centre of Saudi Arabia, has provided much important data. More
London: Helm, 1999. Octavo, 39 colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. New World Blackbirds is a comprehensive guide to the 103 members of the family Icteridae, also known as the icterids or troupials. A diverse family, the icterids range throughout the Americas, from Alaska to Cape Horn, and including the..... More
Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2015. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, black and white illustrations. Accompanied by the stunning photography of Thomas D. Mangelsen, this book details the natural history, biology, and conservation issues surrounding the abundant Sandhill crane and the endangered Whooping crane in North America. Author Paul A. Johnsgard..... More
Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 2011. Octavo, paperback, line drawings, maps. Driving west from Lincoln to Grand Island, Nebraska, Paul A. Johnsgard remarks, is like driving backward in time. "I suspect," he says, "that the migrating cranes of a pre-ice age period some ten million years ago would fully understand every..... More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, (1984. second edition). Octavo, 24 colour plates, maps, bookplate, very good copy in dustwrapper. First published in 1983, this work has been expanded and revised to include 25 Mexican species (47 species in all). More
London: Poyser, 2007. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper. Poyser monograph. Flamingos are among the most familiar and popular of all the world's birds. This book summarises the available understanding of flamingo biology, with discussions of population dynamics, ecology, movements, feeding, breeding biology, and conservation. It also includes a guide to breeding..... More
Perth: WA Museum, 1998. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Covers all offshore islands including Ashmore Reef, Christmas Island and Cocos Keeling Island. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Small quarto, colour plates by Ber van Perlo, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. Part of the Bird families of the world series. There are 22 species of Megapodes ranging over Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, the Philippines, the Nicobar Islands (India), and some south-west Pacific..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2019. second edition), Octavo, paperback, photographs, figures, maps. The Australian magpie is one of our nation’s most popular and iconic birds. It is loved for its impressive vocal abilities, propensity to play, excellent parenting and willingness to form enduring friendships with people. Written by award-winning author Gisela..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO, (2018. second edition), Octavo, paperback, photographs. A fully revised, easy-to-read second edition providing the most comprehensive single study of tawny frogmouths. The tawny frogmouth is one of Australia’s most intriguing and endearing birds. Written by award-winning author Gisela Kaplan, one of Australia’s leading authorities on animal behaviour and..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO, 2007. Octavo, photographs, bookplate, softcover. An overview of one of Australia's most intriguing birds. This book draws on the limited amount of published research, as well as the author's ten years of personal observations in the field. Part of the Australian Natural History Series. More
London: Cassell & Company, [1909]. Octavo, photographs. More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2010. Octavo, colour illustrationsand photographs, owner's sticker, fine copy in dustwrapper. This remarkable book covers the identification of 112 species of Reed and Bush warblers (families Lucustellidae and Acrocephalidae) in astonishing detail with an emphasis on identification down to the subspecies level and the..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. Quarto, colour photographs, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Reaktion Books, 2015. Octavo, photographs, illustrations, bookplate, softcover. The flamingo is possibly the most easily recognized bird in the world. But it is not a single species - there are six different species of flamingos, each differing in size and colour. Caitlin R. Kight presents this fascinating creature in..... More
College Station: Texas A & M UP, 1997. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. More
College Station: Texas A & M UP, (2000. reprint). Octavo, paperback, illustrations by Joan Waltermire. A detailed study of behaviour including foraging and nesting. More
Durham, NH: University of New England, 2014. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably..... More