BIRDS - Passerine
An exaltation of Skylarks.
Pulborough: SMH Books, 1995. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. "..a wonderfully varied anthology of lark-based prose and poetry collected by Stewart Beer, celebrates the efforts of no fewer than 131 writers, from Theocritus in the third century BC to the modern laureate, Ted Hughes." (Daily Telegraph Magazine). More
Life histories of North American wood warblers: order Passeriformes.
Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1953. Octavo, photographs, wrappers, partly unopened. Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 203, More
The magpies: the ecology and behaviour of Black-billed and Yellow-billed Magpies.
London: Poyser, 1991. Octavo, illustrations, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The robins and flycatchers of Australia.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1988. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. National Photographic Index, volume five. More
Quelea quelea: Africa's bird pest.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The Quelea is the world's most numerous bird and the most serious avian agriculture pest. Hundreds of millions are killed each year yet it remains as abundant as ever. More
The Redstart.
London: Collins, 1950. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist Monograph number two. More
A garland of nightingales.
London: Gordon & Cremonesi, 1979. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Thrushes.
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, (2001. reprint). Octavo, 60 colour plates, maps, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. A Helm Identification Guide. All species of Turdidae are described and illustrated in full colour including adults, immatures and most of the distinctive races. It is a comprehensive treatment of the..... More
The Wheatear.
Bromley: Christopher Helm, 1989. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New World warblers.
London: Helm, 1994. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, sunned dustwrapper. The best-ever book on this complex group and a "must" for the serious bird watcher. The 36 colour plates show the major age, sex and racial variations for all species, with colour distribution maps. Many of these birds are illustrated..... More
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Handbook of the birds of the world [HBW], volume eight: broadbills to tapaculos.
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2003. Quarto, colour plates and photographs, maps, 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. The first passerine volume. This volume covers broadbills, asities, pittas, ovenbirds, woodcreepers, typical antbirds, ground-antbirds..... More
A field guide to the warblers of North America.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, fine copy. More
Aspects of the breeding biology of the White-browed Sparrow-weaver Plocepasser mahali (Aves: Ploceidae).
Bloemfontein: National Museum, 1983. Octavo, More
The starling.
London: Oxford University Press, 1984. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The cowbirds: a study in the biology of social parasitism.
Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1929. Octavo, photographs, signature, bookplate, publisher's cloth. More
Host relations of the parasitic cowbirds.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 233, 1963. Octavo, wrappers, a very good copy. United States National Museum Bulletin 233. More
Intra-island variation in the Mascarene White-eye Zosterops borbonica.
Anchorage: "The Feathered World", Monograph No. 12, 1973. Octavo, wrappers, one colour plate. More
Crows of the world.
St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1977. Quarto, colour plates by Robert Gillmor, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Estrildid finches of the world.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1982. Quarto, colour plates by Martin Woodcock, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. One of the better twentieth century monographs, Derek Goodwin (1920-2008) was an excellent ornithologist with the British Museum Natural History. He was a member of the 1968 Harold Hall Expedition to Australia... More
Evolutionary dynamics of a natural population: the Large Cactus Finch of the Galapagos.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Octavo, colour plates. A classic account of evolutionary biology. More
Evolutionary dynamics of a natural population: the Large Cactus Finch of the Galapagos.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Octavo, paperback, colour plates. A detailed and careful examination of behavior and ecology in the wild. More
Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds.
London: Christopher Helm, 2020. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations, maps. This long awaited guide overs the taxonomy, biology and conservation of these fascinating birds in great detail, including a series of plates packed with beautiful illustrations from Richard Allen, and hundreds of photographs covering the full range of racial..... More
Shrikes and bush-shrikes: including wood-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, shrike flycatchers, philentomas, batises and wattle-eyes.
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2000. Octavo, 41 colour plates by Kim Franklin, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first book to cover the identification, biology, and relationships of all true shrikes, bush-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, wood-shrikes, the closely related flycatcher-shrikes, philentomoas, batises and wattle-eyes. All species are portrayed in over..... More
Shrikes of southern Africa: true shrikes, helmet-shrikes and bush shrikes, including the batises and Black-throated Wattle-eye.
Cape Town: Struik Winchester, 1988. Quarto, colour plates by Graeme Arnott, fine copy in dustwrapper and slipcase. More