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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Gulls of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East: an identification guide.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Octavo, paperback, photographs, maps. A comprehensive photographic guide to the gull species of the Western Palearctic Gulls occupy a particularly important place in the world of birds. But because they are notoriously difficult to identify, they have been relatively neglected in the ornithological literature. Gulls..... More
Ecogeographical variation in size and proportions of song sparrows (Melospiza melodia).
Washington DC: American Ornithologists Union, 1984. Octavo, softcover. More
The house of owls.
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
Speciation and geographic variation in Black-tailed Gnatcatchers.
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 1987. Octavo, black and white photographs, maps, wrappers. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 42. More
The Noisy Scrub-bird.
Perth: Western Australian Museum, 1985. Quarto, wrappers, one colour photograph, text illustrations. Records of the Australian Museum, Volume 37, Numbers three and four [bound as one], consists predominantly of articles about the Noisy Scrub-bird. More
Arctic shorebirds in North America: a decade of monitoring.
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
A monograph of the weaver-birds, Ploceidae, and arboreal and terrestrial finches, Fringillidae.
Maidstone: Author, 1888. Quarto, [5 parts] in a single volume [all published]. Publisher's brown cloth, 31 (9 handcoloured) plates by F. W. Frohawk. Boards slightly buckled otherwise an excellent copy free of foxing and blemishes, scarce. The only monograph on weavers and sparrows. Copies with all plates handcoloured are rare..... More
Sparrows of the United States and Canada: the photographic guide.
London: Academic Press, 2002. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, softcover. This guide covers all 64 species of emberizine sparrow found in the United States and Canada. It is illustrated with over 350 photographs and gives detailed information on the identification of species, sexes, age, races and forms of all sparrows, towhees..... More
An exaltation of Skylarks.
Pulborough: SMH Books, 1995. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. "..a wonderfully varied anthology of lark-based prose and poetry collected by Stewart Beer, celebrates the efforts of no fewer than 131 writers, from Theocritus in the third century BC to the modern laureate, Ted Hughes." (Daily Telegraph Magazine). More
Life histories of North American wood warblers: order Passeriformes.
Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1953. Octavo, photographs, wrappers, partly unopened. Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 203, More
Owls: wild guide.
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
The magpies: the ecology and behaviour of Black-billed and Yellow-billed Magpies.
London: Poyser, 1991. Octavo, illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Grasswrens.
Stepney: Axiom Publishing, 2017. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Contains over 100 stunning photographs of all 11 species and 14 subspecies of Australian grasswren currently recognised. Provides a natural history of grasswrens in Australia followed by details of each species. More
Manual of neotropical birds, Volume one: Spheniscidae (Penguins) to Laridae (Gulls and allies) [all published].
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. Octavo, colour plates, illustrations , fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Waterbirds around the world.
Edinburgh: Stationery Office, 2006. Quarto, laminated boards, illustrations. Waterbirds are one the world's most attractive group of birds and among the most threatened. These include albatrosses, flamingos, swans, geese, ducks, cranes, waders, gulls, terns and auks... They share a dependency on the world's wetlands-seas, coasts, estuaries, lagoons, lochs, rivers, marshlands..... More
The robins and flycatchers of Australia.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1988. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. National Photographic Index, volume five. More
Patterns of migratory connectivity in two nearctic-neotropical songbirds: new insights from intrinsic markers.
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 2006. Octavo, paperback, illustrations, maps. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 61. More
Wrens, dippers and thrashers.
London: Christopher Helm, 2001. Octavo, 32 colour plates by Barry Kent Mackay, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first comprehensive guide to the world's 83 wrens, 5 dippers and 36 thrashers. All but one of the wrens are endemic to the new world, with the highest concentration of species in central..... More
The birds of Africa, volume one: Ostrich to falcons.
London: Academic Press, (1982. first edition). Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The birds of Africa, volume one: Ostrich to falcons.
London: Academic Press, (1983. second edition). Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Handsomely produced and illustrated, this excellent series is the standard work on the birds of Africa. More
The birds of Africa, volume six: Picathartes to Oxpeckers.
London: Academic Press, 2000. Quarto, 36 colour plates by Martin Woodcock, maps, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Universally recognised as by far the most authoritative work ever published on the subject, The Birds of Africa is a superb multi-author reference with encyclopaedic species texts, stunning paintings, detailed line drawings..... More
The birds of Africa, volume three: Parrots to woodpeckers.
London: Academic Press, 1988. Quarto, colour plates, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The birds of Africa, volume two: Guinea fowl to doves.
London: Academic Press, 1986. Quarto, colour plates, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More