Parrots of Australasia.
Melbourne: N. H. Seward, 1949. Small quarto, colour plates, photographs, lacks dustwrapper. More
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New World parrots in crisis: solutions from conservation biology.
Washington: Smithsonian, 1992. Octavo, black and white photographs, paperback. More
Quest for the Kakapo.
Auckland: Heinemann Reed, 1989. Octavo, colour photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. The salvaging of the last remaining Kakapos and the subsequent breeding successes is probably the greatest story of modern conservation ornithology. More
Parrots: the animal answer guide.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Octavo, photographs, maps, paperback. WAS $40. This guide provides detailed, factual answers to questions such as what parrots eat in the wild, why so many species live in the Amazon, how intelligent parrots are, and what is the world's rarest parrot? The beautiful plumage..... More
Kakapo country: the story of the world's most unusual bird.
Auckland: Hodder and Stoughton, 1987. Octavo, colour illustrations, lengthy inscription, softcover. More
Parrots of the world.
Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, (1973. first edition). Folio, colour plates, maps, inscribed by the author, fine copy in dustwrapper in the publisher's printed mailing carton, very scarce in this condition. One of the great twentieth century bird books and a central work for anybody seriously interested in parrots. More
Australian parrots.
Brisbane: Alexander Editions, (2002. third revised edition). Quarto, colour plates by William T. Cooper. Handsome red full calf and cloth-backed slipcase, limited to 95 numbered copies signed by both author and artist. The deluxe edition, originally priced at $850. We also have stocks of the trade edition [stock record 35064]..... More
Australian parrots.
Brisbane: Alexander Editions, (2002. third revised edition). Quarto, colour plates by William T. Cooper, a fine copy in dustwrapper. Australian Parrots was first published in 1969 with tipped-in photographs by Len Robinson and was an immediate success. A second edition, with a substantially revised text and illustrated by William T...... More
Australian parrots.
Melbourne: Lansdowne, (1980. second edition). Folio, colour plates. Publisher's full green calf, limited to 1000 copies numbered and signed by author and artist, a very good set in the publisher's solander box. More
Australian parrots.
Sydney: Lansdowne Editions, (1981. second edition). Small folio, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Parrots: a guide to parrots of the world.
Mountfield: Pica Press, (1998. first edition). Octavo, 88 colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first identification guide to parrots. One-fifth of the world's parrots are on the threatened list and this book includes up-to-date information on their conservation Winner of the 1999 British Library Association's McColvin Medal for..... More
The wood-pigeon.
London: Collins, 1965. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist Monograph 20. More
The Dodo and the Solitaire: a natural history.
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013. Octavo, colour and black and white illustrations, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. A comprehensive book about these two famously extinct birds. It contains all the known contemporary accounts and illustrations of the dodo and solitaire, covering their history after extinction and discussing..... More
Conservation of New World parrots: Proceedings of the ICBP Parrot Working Group Meeting, St. Lucia, 1980.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Octavo, paperback, More
The Alex studies: cognitive and communicative abilities of Grey Parrots.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, (2002. reprint). Octavo, paperback. Now in paperback. "Irene Pepperberg's studies of Alex are some of the most remarkable and significant in the whole field of animal cognition. Her evidence stands up to the closest scrutiny, and Alex the parrot turns out to have cognitive abilities..... More
Return of the crazy bird: the sad, strange tale of the Dodo.
New York: Copernicus Books, 2003. Octavo, black and white illustrations, good copy in dustwrapper. Using the history of the concept of extinction with the dodo as a case study, Pinto-Correia carefully weaves together story fragments to give a cohesive eye-opening view of 17th century exploration and the grave ramifications it..... More
Records of parrot-like birds bred in the USA.
London: Author, 1949. Octavo, text printed recto only. Publisher's blue cloth, paper dustwrapper with handwritten label, a fine copy. More
Catalogue of the Australian birds in the Australian Museum at Sydney, N.S.W. Part four: Picariae. Sub-order Halcyones.
Sydney: [Australian Museum], 1894. Octavo, Publisher's wrappers detached and heavily chipped, the neat stamp of the "Royal Society of Edinburgh" More
The doves, parrots, louries and cuckoos of Southern Africa.
Cape Town: David Philip, 1983. Octavo, colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Catalogue of the Columbae, or pigeons, in the collection of the British Museum.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1893. Octavo, 14 chromolithograph plates. Publisher's brown cloth, partly unopened, apart from a library pocket and a small paper library stamp on the bottom of the spine, a near fine copy. Volume 21 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British..... More
Parrots: a natural history.
Port Melbourne: Lothian, 1990. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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