New World parrots in crisis: solutions from conservation biology.
Washington: Smithsonian, 1992. Octavo, black and white photographs, paperback. More
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Parrots: the animal answer guide.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Octavo, photographs, maps, paperback. This guide provides detailed, factual answers to questions such as what parrots eat in the wild, why so many species live in the Amazon, how intelligent parrots are, and what is the world's rarest parrot? The beautiful plumage of parrots..... More
Australian parrots.
Brisbane: Alexander Editions, (2002. third revised edition). Quarto, colour plates by William T. Cooper. Handsome red full calf and cloth-backed slipcase, limited to 95 numbered copies signed by both author and artist. The deluxe edition, originally priced at $850. We also have stocks of the trade edition [stock record 35064]..... More
Australian parrots.
Brisbane: Alexander Editions, (2002. third revised edition). Quarto, colour plates by William T. Cooper, a fine copy in dustwrapper. Australian Parrots was first published in 1969 with tipped-in photographs by Len Robinson and was an immediate success. A second edition, with a substantially revised text and illustrated by William T...... More
Australian parrots.
Melbourne: Lansdowne, (1980. second edition). Folio, colour plates. Publisher's full green calf, limited to 1000 copies numbered and signed by author and artist, a very good set in the publisher's solander box. More
Parrots: a guide to parrots of the world.
Mountfield: Pica Press, (1998. first edition). Octavo, 88 colour plates, maps,good copy in dustwrapper. The first identification guide to parrots. One-fifth of the world's parrots are on the threatened list and this book includes up-to-date information on their conservation Winner of the 1999 British Library Association's McColvin Medal for an..... More
Parrots: a guide to parrots of the world.
Mountfield: Pica Press, (1998. first edition). Octavo, 88 colour plates, maps, faulty end paper. The first identification guide to parrots. One-fifth of the world's parrots are on the threatened list and this book includes up-to-date information on their conservation Winner of the 1999 British Library Association's McColvin Medal for an..... More
Parrots and pigeons of Australia.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1992. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in fine dustwrapper, scarce. More
The Dodo and the Solitaire: a natural history.
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013. Octavo, colour and black and white illustrations, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. A comprehensive book about these two famously extinct birds. It contains all the known contemporary accounts and illustrations of the dodo and solitaire, covering their history after extinction and discussing..... More
Conservation of New World parrots: Proceedings of the ICBP Parrot Working Group Meeting, St. Lucia, 1980.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Octavo, paperback, More
Return of the crazy bird: the sad, strange tale of the Dodo.
New York: Copernicus Books, 2003. Octavo, black and white illustrations, good copy in dustwrapper. Using the history of the concept of extinction with the dodo as a case study, Pinto-Correia carefully weaves together story fragments to give a cohesive eye-opening view of 17th century exploration and the grave ramifications it..... More
Records of parrot-like birds bred in the USA.
London: Author, 1949. Octavo, text printed recto only. Publisher's blue cloth, paper dustwrapper with handwritten label, a fine copy. More
Catalogue of the Australian birds in the Australian Museum at Sydney, N.S.W. Part four: Picariae. Sub-order Halcyones.
Sydney: [Australian Museum], 1894. Octavo, Publisher's wrappers detached and heavily chipped, the neat stamp of the "Royal Society of Edinburgh" More
Catalogue of the Australian birds in the Australian Museum at Sydney, N.S.W. Part four: Picariae. Sub-order Halcyones.
Sydney: [Australian Museum], 1894. Octavo, Publisher's printed wrappers. More
The doves, parrots, louries and cuckoos of Southern Africa.
Cape Town: David Philip, 1983. Octavo, colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Catalogue of the Columbae, or pigeons, in the collection of the British Museum.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1893. Octavo, 14 chromolithograph plates. Publisher's brown cloth, partly unopened, apart from a library pocket and a small paper library stamp on the bottom of the spine, a near fine copy. Volume 21 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British..... More
A monograph of macaws and conures.
Pickering: Silvio Mattacchione, 1993. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. Although this book is intended for the aviculturist, it has much taxonomic and ecological information. Subscriber's edition limited to 2,000 copies. More
Parrots: a natural history.
Port Melbourne: Lothian, 1990. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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