The Cuckoo and other bird mysteries.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1944. first edition), Octavo, map, bookplate of Dominic L. Serventy, publisher's bright green cloth, a very good copy. More
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Handbook of the birds of the world [HBW], volume six: mousebirds to hornbills.
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2001. Quarto, colour plates and photographs, maps, a 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. This volume includes mousebirds, trogons, kingfishers, todies, motmots, bee-eaters, rollers, ground-rollers, cuckoo-roller, Hoopoe, woodhoopoes..... More
Turacos: a natural history of the Musophagidae.
Melbourne: Nokomis, 2002. Quarto, 26 colour plates and uncoloured illustrations by William Cooper, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first true monograph on this spectacular group since Schlegel and Westerman De Toerako's published 1860. This book is yet another wonderful collaboration between the meticulous pen of Joseph Forshaw and the artwork..... More
The evolutionary history of the avian genus Chrysococcyx.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 265, 1968. Octavo, signature, softcover. More
The parasitic cuckoos of Africa.
Washington: Academy of Sciences, Monograph No. 1, 1948. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's green cloth, fine copy. More
Population ecology of the cooperatively breeding Acorn Woodpecker.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Octavo, softcover. More
Management of Cowbirds and their hosts: balancing science, ethics, and mandates.
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 2004. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 57. More
My year with the woodpeckers.
London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1959. Octavo, text illustrations, worn dustwrapper. More
My year with the woodpeckers.
London: Readers' Union, 1961. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Life of the woodpecker.
Santa Monica: Ibis, 1985. Quarto, colour plates, dustwrapper. More
Woodpeckers: a guide to the woodpeckers, piculets and wrynecks of the world.
Mountfield: Pica Press, 1995. Octavo, 64 colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. The south African edition. All 214 species of woodpeckers, including the little-known and enigmatic tiny piculets, are described and pictured, and their distributions, habitats and habits reviewed. Many of the subspecies depicted by Dave Nurney in his..... More
The cuckoo.
London: B T Batsford, 1981. Octavo, colour photographs, illustrations, good in dustwrapper. More
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