Ageing and sexing of migratory east Asian passerines.
Avium Forlag, 2020. Quarto, colour photographs, signature, laminated boards. Text in English and Mandarin. More
Avium Forlag, 2020. Quarto, colour photographs, signature, laminated boards. Text in English and Mandarin. More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2010. Octavo, colour illustrationsand photographs, owner's sticker, fine copy in dustwrapper. This remarkable book covers the identification of 112 species of Reed and Bush warblers (families Lucustellidae and Acrocephalidae) in astonishing detail with an emphasis on identification down to the subspecies level and the..... More
New York: Walker & Company, 2007. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, softcover. A distinguished scientist reveals how we are losing the world's songbirds, why this predicts widespread environmental problems, and what we can do to save the birds and their habitats. Wood thrush, bobolinks, the Eastern kingbird--migratory songbirds are disappearing..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2006. Octavo, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. Poyser monograph. The Barn Swallow is a familiar and popular bird throughout the world. It is one of the most widely distributed bird species, breeding in North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa and wintering..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, softcover. A photographic identification guide to tanagers, cardinals, and finches. The photographs illustrate age, seasonal, and sexual variation in the species found north of Mexico, including introduced species and vagrants. It is designed to introduce the biology, identification, molts, vocalization, and..... More
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2003. Quarto, colour plates and photographs, maps, very good copy in dustwrapper. To be completed in sixteen volumes. Species accounts cover taxonomy, distribution (including subspecies), habitat, feeding, breeding, movements, status and conservation. The first passerine volume. This volume covers broadbills, asities, pittas, ovenbirds, woodcreepers, typical antbirds, ground-antbirds..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2003. Octavo, 26 colour plates, 240 colour photographs, maps and text illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first guide to cover the 26 species of Holarctic pipits and wagtails in detail. The species accounts cover all aspects of identification (taxonomy, size and structure..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2002. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This book covers the fourteen members of the genus Saxicola- the stonechats and bushchats. This passerine group is distributed throughout the Old World, and includes some familiar and widespread species as well as island endemics and extreme..... More
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
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
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, (2001. reprint). Octavo, 60 colour plates, maps, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. A Helm Identification Guide. All species of Turdidae are described and illustrated in full colour including adults, immatures and most of the distinctive races. It is a comprehensive treatment of the..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2000. Octavo, 41 colour plates by Kim Franklin, maps, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first book to cover the identification, biology, and relationships of all true shrikes, bush-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, wood-shrikes, the closely related flycatcher-shrikes, philentomoas, batises and wattle-eyes. All species are portrayed in..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2000. Octavo, 41 colour plates by Kim Franklin, maps, signature, otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper. The first book to cover the identification, biology, and relationships of all true shrikes, bush-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, wood-shrikes, the closely related flycatcher-shrikes, philentomoas, batises and wattle-eyes. All species are..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2000. reprint). Octavo, 60 colour plates, maps, text illustrations, signature fine copy in dustwrapper. First American printing. A Helm Identification Guide. All species of Turdidae are described and illustrated in full colour including adults, immatures and most of the distinctive races. It is a comprehensive treatment..... More
London: Helm, 1999. Octavo, 39 colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. New World Blackbirds is a comprehensive guide to the 103 members of the family Icteridae, also known as the icterids or troupials. A diverse family, the icterids range throughout the Americas, from Alaska to Cape Horn, and including the..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. In this entertaining, beautifully illustrated book, Bob Thornton recounts his and Vera Thornton's cross-continent adventures in finding and photographing all 52 species of wood warblers that nest in the United States. In addition to describing where and how they photographed..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. In this entertaining, beautifully illustrated book, Bob Thornton recounts his and Vera Thornton's cross-continent adventures in finding and photographing all 52 species of wood warblers that nest in the United States. In addition to describing where and..... More
London: Helm, 1998. Octavo, 32 colour plates, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. The starling family contains some of the world's most successful, and some of the world's rarest, birds. Starlings and Mynas is the first comprehensive, one-volume guide to all 114 members of the family. Every species is described and..... More
London: Poyser, 1998. Octavo, one colour plate, text illustrations, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. The nuthatches are common and widespread birds throughout the Northern Hemisphere, but only poorly studied until quite recently. Erik Matthysen's extensive studies, started in 1982, have done much to illuminate the ecology of the Eurasian species..... More
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The authors summarises the information on cowbirds that has appeared since the publication of Friedmann's classic 1929 monograph on these birds. More
London: Helm, 1997. Octavo, 48 colour plates, owner's sticker, fine copy in dustwrapper. Many warblers are notoriously difficult to identify in the field (and even in the hand) and, until now, there has been no definitive guide to the species of these regions. One hundred and forty-five species (and all..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Small quarto, illustrations, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. The fairy-wrens and grasswrens occur only in Australia and New Guinea. Part of the Bird families of the world series. Includes chapters on biology, feeding ecology, breeding behaviour, evolutionary relationships, and conservation. Descriptions of each species..... More
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1997. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, fine copy. More
College Station: Texas A & M UP, 1997. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. More