Bird navigation: the solution of a mystery?
New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1984. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1984. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Surrey: Book Club Associates, Octavo, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New Jersey: World Scientific Publishing, 2014, Octavo, tect illustrations, owner's irritatingly large signature on two pages, laminated boards. More
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
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Octavo, colour photographs and black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Academic Press, 1974. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Leiden: Brill, 1956. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Cambridge: [Cambridge] University Press, (1955. first edition). Octavo, bookplate, dustwrapper. A classic work on migration. More
New York: Henry Holt, 1997. Octavo, line drawings, a very good copy dustwrapper. In "The Raptor and the Lamb", his sixth and finest book, Dr. Christopher McGowan takes the reader on a guided tour of predator-prey relationships from the very different but often overlapping worlds of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles..... More
Melbourne: S. John Bacon, 1953. Octavo, wrappers, More
London: Blake Publishing, 2015. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. Cole Porter raised the topic in his famous song from 1928, 'Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love', which prompted Bruce Montague to ask 'how?'. This book provides an amusing A - Z of the courtship and mating habits of animals. From..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Octavo, text illustrations, signature. More
1948. Octavo, text illustrations, photographs, a very good copy. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Octavo, tables, fine copy in dustwrapper. Are selfishness and individuality - rather than kindness and cooperation - basic to biological nature? Does a 'selfish gene' create universal sexual conflict? This title intends to reject these and other ideas that have come to dominate the..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback. Are selfishness and individuality - rather than kindness and cooperation - basic to biological nature? Does a 'selfish gene' create universal sexual conflict? This title intends to reject these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study of animal evolution..... More
London: BBC Books, 1999. Small quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Sex in the natural world is aggressive, competitive and sometimes fatal. Every living creature has an overwhelming desire to breed but, fascinatingly, the genders are profoundly at odds concerning with whom they mate and the amount of effort..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Large octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations. First-hand summaries of many of the major empirical studies of cooperatively breeding birds. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Large octavo, photographs, text illustrations, laminated boards. First-hand summaries of many of the major empirical studies of cooperatively breeding birds. More
New York: Scribner, 2005. Octavo, remainder mark, fine copy in dustwrapper. Presents a detailed overview of birdsongs, including the different ranges and repertoires of various bird species, the mechanism by which songbirds pass their singing traits onto their offspring, and how songbird anatomy was formed through evolution. More
Tokyo: Japan Scientific Societies Press, 1980. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, graphs, a fine copy in publisher's cloth. More