New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations, maps. For a quarter of a century, Tony Angell had the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of Western screech owls that occupied a nesting box outside the window of his forest home. This book draws on the... More about The house of owls
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Tony Angell, master artist and naturalist, offers an intimate account of owls he has observed, admired, and depicted for decades For a quarter century, Tony Angell and his family shared the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of... More about The house of owls
Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, 2013. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, maps. NOW IN PAPERBACK. An in-depth yet lively study of these fascinating birds on the North American continent. Topics include anatomy and adaptations, mating behaviours, egg laying and chick rearing, feeding habits, communication displays and location. Superbly designed birds of prey... More about Owls of North America
Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2005. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Explores the lives of owls, including their fearsome hunting abilities, their tender courtship rituals, and, of course, their haunting vocalisations. This book also includes an identification guide covering several North American species - from the tiny Elf Owl to the imposing Great... More about Owls: wild guide
Calton: Poyser, 1982. Octavo, text illustrations, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about The Barn Owl
Weert: Peter Lowe, (1973. first edition). Quarto, colour illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More about Owls of the world: their evolution, structure and ecology
Sydney: Hodder and Stoughton, (1985. second edition), Quarto, colour paintings, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapperr. More about Owls of the world: their evolution, structure and ecology
Glasgow: Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. New Naturalist110. David Cabot has been obsessed with wildfowl for nearly sixty years. In this seminal new work, he discusses the 56 species of wildfowl that have been recorded either in a natural state, or that have been introduced... More about Wildfowl of Britain and Ireland
Glasgow: Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. Octavo, colour photographs, line drawings, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 110. David Cabot has been obsessed with wildfowl for nearly sixty years. In this seminal new work, he discusses the 56 species of wildfowl that have been recorded either in a natural state, or... More about Wildfowl of Britain and Ireland
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about The curse of the Labrador Duck: my obsessive quest to the edge of extinction
Washington: National Wildlife Federation, 1978. Quarto, paperback, More about Working bibliography of owls of the world: with summaries of current taxonomy and distributional...
Princeton: Princeton University Press/WILDGuides, 2010. Large octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Includes all Nightjars, Potoos, Frogmouths, Oilbird and Owlet-nightjars. Each species fully described, with local and international status shown. This lavishly illustrated book is the first comprehensive photographic guide to the Caprimulgiformes of the world. Each of the 100 species... More about Nightjars, Potoos, Frogmouths, Oilbird, and Owlet-Nightjars of the world
London: Reaktion Books, 2008. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations. Reaktion Animal Series. From the Eider duck to the Brazilian teal to the familiar mallard, duck species are richly diverse, and de Rijke offers a comprehensive overview of their evolutionary history as well as a cultural history. Other titles in... More about Duck
![Handbook of the birds of the world [HBW], volume five: barn owls to hummingbirds. Josep del Hoyo](/pictures/thumb/12517.jpg?v=1550824234)
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 1999. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour plates and photographs, maps. To be completed in sixteen volumes. Species accounts cover taxonomy, distribution (including subspecies), habitat, feeding, breeding, movements, status and conservation. This volume includes barn-owls, typical owls, Oilbird, owlet-nightjars, frogmouths, potoos, nightjars, swifts, tree-swifts and hummingbirds. More about Handbook of the birds of the world [HBW], volume five: barn owls to hummingbirds
![The waterfowl of the world [volume two only]. Jean Delacour](/pictures/thumb/34469.jpg?v=1550827861)
London: Country Life, (1956. first edition). Octavo, colour plates by Peter Scott, very good copy in dustwrapper, owner's signature on endpaper. More about The waterfowl of the world [volume two only
London: Hamlyn, (1973. reprint). Quarto, 66 colour plates by Peter Scott, distribution maps. Later publisher's decorated cloth, each volume in a glassine wrapper, owner's sticker, a fine set. More about The waterfowl of the world
New York: Random House, 1941. Quarto, colour plates, bookplate of Roy Cooper, a good copy in dustwrapper. More about American water birds: also hawks, owls and game birds
London: Picador, 2002. Octavo, dustwrapper, Snow geese spend their summers in the Canadian Arctic, on the tundra. Each autumn they migrate south, to Delaware, California and the Gulf of Mexico. In the spring, they fly north again. William Fiennes decided to go with them and to write about his travels... More about The Snow Geese
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Large octavo, laminated boards, illustrations. The Northern spotted owl, a threatened species that occurs in coniferous forests in the western United States, has become a well-known environmental symbol. But how is the owl actually faring? This book contains the results of a long-term effort... More about Population demography of Northern spotted owls
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 2004. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 54. More about Population dynamics of the California spotted owl (Strix occidentalis occidentalis): a meta-analysis
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1967. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More about Waterfowl in Australia
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about The Giant Canada Goose
London: British Trust for Ornithology, 1938. Octavo, photographs, signature. Cover boards a little grubby and some spotting of endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. Reprinted with corrections from British Birds, Volume XXXI, Nos. 6, 7 and 8. More about Report of the Little Owl Food Enquiry 1936-37, organised by the British Trust for Ornithology
New York: Thomasson-Grant, 1988. Quarto, very good copy in dustwrapper. More about Magnificent voyagers: waterfowl of North America
London: Collins, (1949. first edition). Quarto, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about Birds in action