The Kingfisher.
Poole: Blandford Press, 1982. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper.
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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...
The private eye: observing Snow Geese.
Vancouver: UBC Press, 1996. Octavo, photos., maps. With a chapter by Robert Bateman on the artist's view of nature.
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...
Goose hunting.
Washington: Stone Wall Press, (1980. reprint). Octavo, photographs, fine copy, fine copy in dustwrapper.
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The waterfowl of the world [volume two only].
London: Country Life, (1956. first edition). Octavo, colour plates by Peter Scott, very good copy in dustwrapper, owner's signature on endpaper.
The waterfowl of the world.
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.
Buffleheads.
Ottawa: Canadian Wildlife Service, Monograph Series No. 4, 1971. Octavo, photographs, graphs, line drawings.
Waterfowl in Australia.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1967. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper.
Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Coliomorphae: part five, containing the families Paridae and Laniidae (Titmice and Shrikes) and Certhiomorphae (Creepers and Nuthatches).
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1883. Octavo, nine handcoloured plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume eight from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898.
Water-birds with webbed feet.
London: Blandford Press, 1965. Octavo, text illustrations and colour plates, dustwrapper.
Bird life on island and shore.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1925. Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce in this condition.
The herons of the world.
London: London Editions, 1978. Folio, colour plates by Robert Gillmor and Peter Hayman, fine copy in dustwrapper.
The herons handbook.
London: Croom Helm, 1984. Octavo, colour plates by Robert Gillmor and Peter Hayman, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper.
The birds of the wetlands.
London: Croom Helm, 1984. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper.
Birds of the wetlands.
London: Academic Press, 1999. Large octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. Wetlands are special places whose complex ecosystems provide homes for rich and varied assemblages of bird inhabitants. Herons, storks, ibises, spoonbills, anhingas, shorebirds and birds of prey all make a living there, each according to their own special needs. Although...
An annotated bibliography of literature on Alaskan water birds.
Washington, DC: Fisheries and Wild Life Department, 1981. Quarto, paperback, cover lightly sunned.
Catalogue of the Picariea in the Collection of the British Museum. Scansores, containing the family Picidae.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1890. Octavo, 15 chromolithographic plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps, partly unopened. Volume 15 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898.
Magnificent voyagers: waterfowl of North America.
New York: Thomasson-Grant, 1988. Quarto, very good copy in dustwrapper.
A waterhen's worlds.
Cambridge: [Cambridge] University Press, 1940. Quarto, text illustrations by G. E. Lodge, very good copy in dustwrapper.
Diving birds of North America.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper.
Ducks, geese, and swans of the world.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, dustwrapper.
Handbook of waterfowl behavior.
Ithaca: Comstock Publishing, 1965. Octavo, illustrations, very good copy in chipped dustwrapper.
Waterfowl: their biology and natural history.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1968. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper.
Ducks in the wild: conserving waterfowl and their habitats.
Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1992. Octavo, colour illustrations, maps. With colour photographs of each of the 111 species, an identification guide and a map showing distribution.