The Shelduck: a study in behavioural ecology.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
BIRDS - Ducks, Cormorants, Herons and Grebes
The Mute Swan.
London: Croom Helm, 1986. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The Kingfisher.
Poole: Blandford Press, 1982. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper. More
Waterbirds around the world.
Edinburgh: Stationery Office, 2006. Quarto, laminated boards, illustrations. Waterbirds are one the world's most attractive group of birds and among the most threatened. These include albatrosses, flamingos, swans, geese, ducks, cranes, waders, gulls, terns and auks... They share a dependency on the world's wetlands-seas, coasts, estuaries, lagoons, lochs, rivers, marshlands..... More
The private eye: observing Snow Geese.
Vancouver: UBC Press, 1996. Octavo, photos., maps. With a chapter by Robert Bateman on the artist's view of nature. More
Wildfowl of Britain and Ireland.
Glasgow: Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. Octavo, colour photographs, line drawings, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 110. David Cabot has been obsessed with wildfowl for nearly sixty years. In this seminal new work, he discusses the 56 species of wildfowl that have been recorded either in a natural state, or..... More
Goose hunting.
Washington: Stone Wall Press, (1980. reprint). Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The curse of the Labrador Duck: my obsessive quest to the edge of extinction.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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The waterfowl of the world [volume two only].
London: Country Life, (1956. first edition). Octavo, colour plates by Peter Scott, very good copy in dustwrapper, owner's signature on endpaper. More
Buffleheads.
Ottawa: Canadian Wildlife Service, Monograph Series No. 4, 1971. Octavo, photographs, graphs, line drawings. More
Gamebirds and waterfowl of southern Africa: a collection of 68 water-colours by C. G. Finch-Davies, originally commissioned to illustrate Lt.-Col. Boyd Robert Horsbrugh's 1912 volume The Game-Birds and Water-Fowl of South Africa.
Johannesburg: Winchester Press, 1986. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in slipcase, the subscribers' edition. More
Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Coliomorphae: part five, containing the families Paridae and Laniidae (Titmice and Shrikes) and Certhiomorphae (Creepers and Nuthatches).
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1883. Octavo, nine handcoloured plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume eight from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
Water-birds with webbed feet.
London: Blandford Press, 1965. Octavo, text illustrations and colour plates, dustwrapper. More
Bird life on island and shore.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1925. Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce in this condition. More
The herons of the world.
London: London Editions, 1978. Folio, colour plates by Robert Gillmor and Peter Hayman, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The birds of the wetlands.
London: Croom Helm, 1984. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Birds of the wetlands.
London: Academic Press, 1999. Large octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. Wetlands are special places whose complex ecosystems provide homes for rich and varied assemblages of bird inhabitants. Herons, storks, ibises, spoonbills, anhingas, shorebirds and birds of prey all make a living there, each according to their own special needs. Although..... More
The birds of the wetlands.
London: Croom Helm, 1984. Octavo, colour photographs. Torn dustwrapper, otherwise a good copy. More
An annotated bibliography of literature on Alaskan water birds.
Washington, DC: Fisheries and Wild Life Department, 1981. Quarto, paperback, cover lightly sunned. More
Catalogue of the Picariea in the Collection of the British Museum. Scansores, containing the family Picidae.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1890. Octavo, 15 chromolithographic plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps, partly unopened. Volume 15 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
A waterhen's worlds.
Cambridge: [Cambridge] University Press, 1940. Quarto, text illustrations by G. E. Lodge, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Watching waterbirds with Kate Humble and Martin McGill: 100 birds in just one day.
London: A & C Black, 2011. Small octavo, colour photographs and illustrations, softcover. This book introduces some 75 species of wetland birds to readers through the eyes of Kate Humble. As she freely admits herself, Kate is still learning her birds, so to find out more she contacted Martin McGill..... More
Diving birds of North America.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Ducks, geese, and swans of the world.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, dustwrapper. More
Waterfowl: their biology and natural history.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1968. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More