The bird: its form and function.
New York: (1906. first edition). Octavo, photographs, library stamp on front paste-down, a very good copy in publisher's decorated cloth. More
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Proceedings of the [twelfth] International Ornithological Congress: Helsinki, 5-12 June 1958.
Helsinki: Publisher unknown, 1960. Large octavo, two volumes, text illustrations, publisher's wrappers, a very good set. More
Reed-warblers: an introduction to their breeding-biology and behaviour.
(1949. Octavo, black and white photographs, graphs, line drawings. Bookplate of Roy Cooper, some foxing throughout otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Bird song: biological themes and variations.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Octavo, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Explores the study of bird song from the biological viewpoint and reviews the extensive literature on the subject. More
Ecdysis, as morphological evidence of the original tetradactyle feathering of the bird's fore-limb, based especially on the perennial moult in Gymnorhina tibicen [drop title].
London: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, volume sixteen, part eight, 1903. Large quarto, text illustrations. Binder's cloth, small library stamp on front end paper, otherwise a good copy. More
How birds work: a guide to bird biology.
Poole: Blandford Press, 1982. Octavo, illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Ornithology.
New York: W. H. Freeman, (1995. second edition). Small quarto, black and white illustrations, good copy in dustwrapper. Covers evolution; development of anatomical features (feathers, bills, wings), social and reproductive behaviour, survival methods, communication, and conservation. More
Bird hybrids: a check-list with bibliography.
Farnham Royal: Farnham Royal Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, 1958. Quarto, fine copy in dustwrapper, bookplate of Roy Cooper. More
The structure and life of birds.
London: Macmillan, 1895. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's grren and gilt cloth, some wear, a good 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
Bird coloration, volume one: mechanisms and measurements.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, dustwrapper. This well illustrated volume synthesises more than 1,500 technical papers in this field. The focus is on the three primary mechanisms of colour production - melanin pigmentation, carotenoid pigmentation and structural coloration - but less common as well..... More
The distribution of breeding seabirds in the Bailiwick of Guernsey 1986-1990.
St Peter Port, Guernsey: La Société Guernesiaise, 1991. Octavo, wrappers, maps, tables. More
The nature of a bird's world.
Cambridge: [Cambridge] University Press, 1935. Octavo, Publisher's cloth, partly unopened. More
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Acta [eighteenth] Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici: Moscow, August 16-24, 1982.
Moscow: Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1985. Octavo, text illustrations, a very good copy. More
The avian brood parasites: deception at the nest.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Octavo, illustrations, laminated boards. Discusses all of the world's nearly 100 species of obligatory brood parasites - those birds that reproduce only by laying their eggs in the nests of other species - and the ecological and evolutionary aspects of this remarkable behavioural adaptation..... More
Island biology: illustrated by the land birds of Jamaica.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. Octavo, text illustrations, maps, signature and inscription. A very good copy in sunned dustwrapper. More
Biology and comparative physiology of birds.
New York: Academic Press, 1960-1961. Octavo, text illustrations, very good set in stained dustwrappers. More
Biology and comparative physiology of birds.
New York: Academic Press, 1960-1961. Octavo, text illustrations, very good set without dustwrappers. A classic work and still useful. More
Bird navigation.
Cambridge: [Cambridge] University Press, (1955. first edition). Octavo, bookplate, dustwrapper. A classic work on migration. More
Bird navigation.
Cambridge: [Cambridge] University Press, (1955. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, ex library, dustwrapper. More
Why birds fly: an inquiry into environmental influences.
Melbourne: S. John Bacon, 1953. Octavo, wrappers, More
The problems of birds as pests (Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Royal Geographical Society, London, on 28 and 29 September 1967).
London: Institute of Biology, 1968. Octavo, text illustrations, a good copy in sunned and slightly chipped dustwrapper. More
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Acta [Seventeenth] Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici.
Berlin: Verlag der Deutschen Ornithologen-Gesellschaft, 1980. Octavo, text illustrations. Most of the articles are in English. More
Ornithology in laboratory and field.
Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Company, (1967. fourth edition). Octavo, text illustrations, checklists in pocket at back, laminated boards. More
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: handbook of bird biology.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2004. second edition). Quarto, black and white illustrations, laminated boards. All major topics are covered, from anatomy and physiology to ecology, behaviour, and conservation biology. One full chapter addresses vocal communication and is accompanied by a CD of bird vocalisations. The book's text was written by..... More