London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings. Beloved by people as the herald of spring, for many birds the cuckoo is a signal of doom. Known for being a notorious cheat, cuckoos across the world have evolved extraordinary tricks to manipulate other species into raising their young..... More
London: A & C Black, 2012. Octavo, colour illustrations and photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. This authoritative handbook, part of the Helm Identification Guides series, looks in detail at the world's cuckoos, couas and anis - the family Cuculidae. Famed as brood-parasites of other birds, the cuckoos include a...... More
Singapore: Nature's Niche, 2013. Oblong format, colour photographs, maps, softcover. The first photographic monograph to the order of Bucerotiformes. Photographs illustrate all 57 species in tropical Africa and in Asia, male as well as female, and all distinct subspecies. Detailed descriptions of each species provides information distribution, ecology and habitats..... More
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, black and white photographs, maps. Nearly two feet long with striking black, white, and red plumage, the Ivory-billed and Imperial woodpeckers were two of the most impressive woodpeckers in the world. Both species were known to be in serious..... More