Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. Bright colours, enlarged fins, feather plumes, song, horns, antlers and tusks are often highly sex dimorphic. Why have males in many species of animals evolved more conspicuous ornaments, signals and weapons than females? How can such traits evolve although they..... More
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Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2010. Quarto, colour plates and photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. FREIGHT WILL BE $18, WITHIN AUSTRALIA. Completed in sixteen volumes, 1992-2013. The eighth passerine volume. Species accounts cover taxonomy, distribution (including subspecies), habitat, feeding, breeding, movements, status and conservation. This volume includes: Weavers, Whydahs and Indigobirds..... More
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Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2009. Quarto, colour plates and photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper.. FREIGHT WILL BE $18, WITHIN AUSTRALIA. Completed in sixteen volumes, 1992-2013. The seventh passerine volume. Species accounts cover taxonomy, distribution (including subspecies), habitat, feeding, breeding, movements, status and conservation. This volume includes: Bush-shrikes Helmet-shrikes Vangas Drongos..... More
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Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2004. Quarto, colour plates and photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper.. FREIGHT WILL BE $18, WITHIN AUSTRALIA. Completed in sixteen volumes, 1992-2013.The second passerine volume. Species accounts cover taxonomy, distribution (including subspecies), habitat, feeding, breeding, movements, status and conservation. The second passerine volume and includes cotingas, manakins..... More
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Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2005. Quarto, colour plates and photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. FREIGHT WILL BE $18, WITHIN AUSTRALIA. Completed in sixteen volumes, 1992-2013. The third of the passerine volumes covering cuckoo-shrikes, bulbuls, leafbirds, fairy-bluebirds, silky-flycatchers, waxwings, Hypocolius, Palmchat, dippers, wrens, mockingbirds and thrashers, accentors, and thrushes. The series..... More
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Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2008. Quarto, colour plates and colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. FREIGHT WILL BE $18, WITHIN AUSTRALIA. Completed in sixteen volumes, 1992-2013. The sixth passerine volume with sections on Australian species such as Pardalotes and Honeyeaters, written by Australian experts. The series is to be completed..... More
London: Collins, (1977. first edition). Folio, colour plates by Cooper. Publisher's slipcase and dustwrapper, small owner's signature, a fine copy. Winner of Australian Book of the Year in 1977 and one the finest of all modern bird books. More
Sydney: Croom Helm, 1984. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: Croom Helm, 1984. Octavo, colour photographs. Torn dustwrapper, otherwise a good copy. More
Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2009. Octavo, colour maps, black and white photographs, illustrations, text illustrations. This is a textbook for Natural Resource Management, Resource Conservation and Ecosystem Management, as well as other related or more specialized courses. Most textbooks on natural resource and ecosystem management are dominated by a steady-state view that..... More
Amsterdam: Brill, 1956. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
New York: Abbeville Press, (2013. first edition). Folio, colour illustrations, unpaginated, fine copy in dustwrapper and publisher's slipcase.. This outstanding edition of Audubon's Birds of America, with a substantial ornithological revision by Roger Tory Peterson, displays all 435 of Audubon's brilliant handcoloured engravings in exquisite reproductions taken from the original..... More
London: British Trust for Ornithology, 1992. Octavo, maps. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2005. third edition), Quarto, colour illustrations, text illustrations, maps. Publisher's half morocco, with gilt cloth, slipcase, limited to 100 numbered and signed copies. The definitive reference covering mammals of the southern African subregion. Extensively revised and updated for this new edition. This comprehensive volume covers all..... More
London: Blandford Press, 1987. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations, maps. This volume reviews our knowledge of avifaunal history over the last 15,000 years, setting it in its wider historical and European context. The authors, one an ornithologist the other an archaeologist, integrate a wealth of archaeological data to..... More