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
Cuckoos of the world.
London: A & C Black, 2012. Octavo, colour illustrations and photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. This authoritative handbook, part of the Helm Identification Guides series, looks in detail at the world's cuckoos, couas and anis - the family Cuculidae. Famed as brood-parasites of other birds, the cuckoos include a...... 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 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, illustrations, softcover. 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
The doves, parrots, louries and cuckoos of Southern Africa.
Cape Town: David Philip, 1983. Octavo, colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Cuckoos, nightbirds and kingfishers of Australia.
Pymble: Angus and Robertson, 1994. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. National Photographic Index, number nine. 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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