The birds of the British Isles, volume eleven.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1962. Quarto, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1962. Quarto, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Croom Helm, 1985. Octavo, photographs and other illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Large octavo, laminated boards, maps. A publication of the Cooper Ornithological Society. Each year shorebirds from North and South America migrate thousands of miles to spend the summer in the Arctic. There they feed in shoreline marshes and estuaries along some of the most..... More
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1955. Octavo, text illustrations, chipped dustwrapper. More
London: Poyser, 1998. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs, other illustrations. WAS $115. Examines the taxonomy, appearance, behaviour, ecology and conservation of the Golden and Grey Plovers. There are four species of tundra plover: the Grey Plover, and the Eurasian, Pacific and American golden plovers. They breed only in the northern hemisphere, principally..... More
London: Macmillan, 1989. Octavo, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: A & C Black, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Shorebirds, or waders, are a very popular group of birds among birders of all standards, though their identification is often a challenge. Covering all the species of the northern hemisphere, this new photographic guide provides all the information a...... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1988. Octavo, colour plates, maps, inscribed by Peter Colston, laminated boards. More
Melbourne: ICI Australia, (1980. fourth edition). Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Auckland Park: Jacana Media, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations. Do you have a large 'Wader'-sized gap in your bird knowledge? Roy Cowgill and Stephen Davis will help you fill in those gaps and will soon have you identifying South Africa's shorebirds with confidence and ease. This unique new..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. Quarto, colour plates, maps, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The wader volume. More
Oxford: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 1983. Quarto, colour plates, maps, other illustrations, ex library, dustwrapper.9118 The RSPB printing with different dustwrapper. More
Wageningen: Wetlands International, 2009. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. Offers information on the numbers, distribution and movements of one of the most remarkable groups of birds in the region covered by the African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement (AEWA). This work is suitable for those involved in the conservation or study..... More
Wageningen: Wetlands International, 2006. Quarto, paperback, tables, diagrams. Proceedings of an International Symposium of the WI Woodcock and Snipe Specialist Group. Contains 16 papers covering topics such as breeding, biology, ecology, behaviour, population dynamics, monitoring, and hunting bags. This work presents papers focusing on Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola), Common Snipe (Gallinago..... More
New York: Devin-Adair, 1960. Large octavo, text illustrations, tapemarks, dustwrapper. More
London: Croom Helm, (1986. first edition). Octavo, colour plates, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: RAOU, 1954. Octavo, photographs, stiff wrappers. Reprinted from The Emu, volume 54. More
Cape Town: Struik, 1995. Quarto, colour plates, distribution maps. Publisher's slipcase and dustwrapper, fine copy. More
Anchorage: BP Exploration (Alaska) Ltd., [1989. second edition). Octavo, coloured map, a fine copy. More
Melbourne: Nelson, 1987. Quarto, photographs, colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: Viking Press, (1967. first edition). Small folio, colour plates, inscription, a fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce in this condition. More
London: Debrett's Peerage, 1986. Quarto, colour photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2005. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. This new field guide offers a complete identification reference to all of the sandpipers, plovers, stints and other waders found in Europe, Asia and North America. The superb plates show birds at rest and in flight, in every plumage..... More
Calton: Poyser, 1986. Octavo, photographs, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Vermillion: Buteo Books, 1979. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. A monograph on this particularly interesting and attractive wader, the Greenshank Tringa nebularia, by a world authority on the species. More