London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. Until recently, gulls were a group that inspired dread among birders, due to the bewildering variety of plumages, age-groups, and races, many of which are very difficult indeed to separate, even to species. Things changed in 2003 with the publication of..... More
Canberra: National Library of Australia. 2021. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations and photographs. The Budgerigar is arguably Australia’s best-known bird. At the same time, it is so ubiquitous that not everyone knows that it is Australian. Nor do many realise that the multicoloured bird that comes to mind — not to..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2018. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations. Known for being Australia's most mysterious and enigmatic bird, the Night parrot has been luring its seekers into Australia's vast, arid outback for over a century. Less than 30 specimens were collected before it all but disappeared, and for a...... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2007. Octavo, colour illustrations, maps, softcover. Famous for their size and elegance in flight, albatrosses are familiar to anyone who has travelled through the southern oceans, and are a flagship family of conservation concern. However, albatrosses are just one of several groups of 'pelagic'..... More
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1997. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Small quarto, laminated boards, diagrams. Chickadees and titmice are among the most popular birds in North America, due in large part to their readiness to use bird feeders, to nest in urban gardens, and even to be trained to take food from people's hands..... More
London: New Holland, 2012. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Bird courtship and display can be one of the most captivating events in the natural world. This attractive and informative book looks at natural selection and why birds have evolved different reproduction strategies, examining territories, birdsong, displays and dealing with rivals. It..... More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2004. Quarto, laminated boards, photographs, maps. Azerbaijan, a country with a rich variety of habitats and wildlife, lies south of the Caucasus Mountains on the western seaboard of the Caspian and shares a common border with Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Iran and Turkey. This first full description of its..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Octavo, illustrations, tables, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $110. The Salton Sea, California's largest inland lake, supports a huge bird population that is among the most concentrated and most diverse in the world. Sadly this environment is close to collapse from several environmental threats..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Quarto, laminated boards, maps, tables, graphs. New human disease pandemics arising from animals stimulated by ongoing environmental change, demonstrate the value of ornithological research into avian diseases. A group of 29 researchers address a diverse set of topics, including the evolutionary and ecological aspects..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2005. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More than 530 photographs illustrate all North American shorebird species in their varied plumage states and all species are accompanied by text that points out conspecific variation. There are also includes identification tips and ways for distinguishing shorebirds from..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2004. Large octavo, dustwrapper, text illustrations, maps, colour photographs. The Shetland islands are nationally important for their 21 species of breeding seabirds, and other extremely rare or sporadic British breeding birds and migrants. This new avifauna looks in depth at the status, distribution and..... More
London: British Museum Press, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Now in a fresh new paperback format, this book showcases the British Museum's vast collection of bird images from all over the world. Some are primarily decorative, whereas Thomas Bewick and the Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro chose to show birds in..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback and CD-ROM, BRAND NEW. This book was first published in 1977. It deals with the importance of weed seed and grain-eating birds in natural and agricultural environments. These birds are to be found worldwide and are a component of man-made ecosystems where they..... More
London: Christopher Helm, 2003. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. This new county avifauna looks at the birdlife of Suffolk - one of the most important birding counties in England. Suffolk is relatively underdeveloped, with nationally important wetlands and heathlands, and a long, varied coastline. It is here that the Avocet first..... More
London: T & A D Poyser, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, text illustrations, colour photographs. Since 1980, a total of 72 bird species have been found for the first time in Britain. This new book is the successor to Birds new to Britain and Ireland by Sharrock and Grant, 1982 [stock id..... More
Pymble: Harper Collins Publishers, (2012. ninth edition). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. The ninth edition is a substantial revision on previous editions. Apart from some attractive design improvements there is an extensive text addition to the recent Australian vagrants with an extra 18 plates. Species entries have been re-ordered and..... More
Sydney: Harper Collins Publishers, 2013. Small octavo, paperback, limp plastic cover, colour illustrations, maps. An easy to use, handy and portable field guide for beginner and experienced birdwatchers alike. Designed to complement Australia's best-selling "The field guide to the birds of Australia" [34572], now in its ninth edition, this regional..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, (2010. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. This is a completely revised second edition of the bestselling field guide to the birds of the Middle East. For the first time, the text and maps appear opposite the plates, and as a consequence there..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2012. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 121. Globally, there are at least 45 species of game bird that have the word partridge in their name, but in this book G. R. Potts devotes himself to the Grey, Red-legged and Chukar Partridges..... More
Berkeley: Frog, Ltd, 2003. Octavo, paperback, black and white text illustrations by Susan Mohl Powers. In this book the author, Alan Powers, offers an experiential walk through the city and countryside of several continents while listening, watching and replying to birds. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Small quarto, dustwrapper, 9 colour plates, 130 black and white photographs, text illustrations, maps. Part of the Bird families of the world series. Covers the Hawaiian honeycreepers in detail including life history, relationships, and evolutionary history. As with other volumes in the series, the work..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2014. second edition). Octavo, paperback, plates by John Anderton and Szabolcs Kokay, colour illustrations, maps. This is the long awaited completely revised edition of the field guide to the birds of New Guinea. The world's largest tropical island, New Guinea boasts a spectacular avifauna characterized by..... More
Mauritius: Author, 2012. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Text in English and French. The Birds of the Mascarene is a fully illustrated identification guide with over 300 photographs covering all the rare and endangered species, including endemic, oceanic, migratory and exotic birds of the Mascarene Islands, a group of islands in..... More
Mauritius: Authors, 2016. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Highly accomplished bird photographer Narainsamy Ramen teams up with Adrian Skerrett, author of many Seychelles books. Together they have produced a grand celebration of the birds of these islands. All sixty-species that breed in Seychelles are illustrated in a wonderful Series of colour..... More