Life histories of North American wood warblers: order Passeriformes.
Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1953. Octavo, photographs, wrappers, partly unopened. Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 203, More
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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
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
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
Aspects of the breeding biology of the White-browed Sparrow-weaver Plocepasser mahali (Aves: Ploceidae).
Bloemfontein: National Museum, 1983. Octavo, 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
The jewel hunter.
Princeton: Princeton University Press/WILDGuides, 2010. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, paperback. A witty, compelling account of Goodie's hunt for all the world's Pittas in a single year. It is a humorous but detailed travelogue of his adventure, with photographs of the most difficult species as taken under the conditions of the..... More
Crows of the world.
St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1977. Quarto, colour plates by Robert Gillmor, very good copy in dustwrapper. 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 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
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. Publisher's half morocco and marbled boards, slipcase; the Collector's Issue limited to 100 numbered and signed copies. More
Hummingbirds.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. Quarto, colour photographs, a fine copy, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Birds of paradise: revealing the world's most extraordinary birds.
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2012. Oblong format, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Photographer Tim Laman is the first person to photograph all bird of paradise species and probably also the first person to see all species in the wild. Legendary naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace once observed, "The..... More
Shrikes: a guide to the shrikes of the world.
Mountfield: Pica Press, 1997. Octavo, 16 colour plates, maps, fine copy in slightly sunned dustwrapper. The 'true' shrikes occur throughout most of the Old World and North America. Covers 31 species. More
The Pinyon Jay: behavioral ecology of a colonial and cooperative corvid.
London: Poyser, 1992. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
A field guide to the warblers of Britain and Europe.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. Octavo, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
American warblers: an ecological and behavioral perspective.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1989. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The robins and flycatchers of Australia.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1988. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The wrens and warblers of Australia.
London: Angus and Robertson, 1982. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first volume in the ten volume series. More
Pine Crossbills: a Scottish contribution.
Berkhamsted: Poyser, 1975. Octavo, photographs, bookplate, a very good copy in slightly sunned dustwrapper, scarce. More
Australian flycatchers and their allies.
Melbourne: Bird Observers Club, 1969. Octavo, colour plates by Peter Slater, maps, dustwrapper. More