The Cuckoo and other bird mysteries.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1944. first edition), Octavo, map, bookplate of Dominic L. Serventy, publisher's bright green cloth, a very good copy. More
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Cuckoo: cheating by nature.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings. Beloved by people as the herald of spring, for many birds the cuckoo is a signal of doom. Known for being a notorious cheat, cuckoos across the world have evolved extraordinary tricks to manipulate other species into raising their young..... More
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Handbook of the birds of the world [HBW], volume four: sandgrouse to cuckoos.
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 1997. Quarto, colour plates and photographs, maps, top edge dust marked, a good copy in dustwrapper. To be completed in sixteen volumes. Species accounts cover taxonomy, distribution (including subspecies), habitat, feeding, breeding, movements, status and conservation. This volume includes sandgrouse, pigeons, doves, cockatoos, parrots, turacos and cuckoos..... More
The evolutionary history of the avian genus Chrysococcyx.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 265, 1968. Octavo, signature, softcover. More
The parasitic cuckoos of Africa.
Washington: Academy of Sciences, Monograph No. 1, 1948. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's green cloth, fine copy. More
The nesting season: cuckoos, cuckolds, and the invention of monogamy.
Cambridge MA: Belknap Press, 2011. Octavo, colour photographs, illustrations, paperback. Why are the eggs of the marsh wren deep brown, the winter wren's nearly white, and the gray catbird's a brilliant blue? And what in the DNA of a penduline tit makes the male weave a domed nest of fibres..... More
The Roadrunner.
Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1993. Oblong format, paperback, colour photographs. A photographic essay on this ground dwelling member of the cuckoo family. Also available in hardcover. More
One flew into the Cuckoo's egg.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2008. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Bill Oddie is utterly candid in this unconventional autobiography, in which he shares his many highs as a comedian in Goodies, and more recently as a wildlife presenter, and explores the crippling lows he has suffered as a result..... More
Management of Cowbirds and their hosts: balancing science, ethics, and mandates.
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 2004. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 57. More
Prolegomenon to further studies in the Chrysococcyx 'Malayanus' group (Aves, Cuculidae)
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1981. Octavo, two monochrome plates. Publisher's wrappers, a fine copy. Zoologische Verhandelingen, No.187. More
Fleas, flukes and cuckoos.
London: Collins, (1952. reprint). Octavo, photographs, signature, dustwrapper. New Naturalist Monograph Number 7. More
The doves, parrots, louries and cuckoos of Southern Africa.
Cape Town: David Philip, 1983. Octavo, colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
A revised check list of African shrikes, orioles, drongos, starlings, crows, waxwings, cuckoo-shrikes, bulbuls, accentors, thrushes and babblers.
Lusaka: Government Printer, 1962. Octavo, minor spotting of wrappers, sound inside, very good copy. More
The cuckoo.
London: B T Batsford, 1981. Octavo, colour photographs, illustrations, good in dustwrapper. More
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