A Birdkeeper's guide to cockatiels. Practical advice on the care and accommodation of these popular birds, plus a survey of colour forms.
London: Salamander Books, 1989. Octavo, colour illustrations, laminated boards.
Cage Birds
A Birdkeeper's guide to cockatoos: A comprehensive survey of these distinctive birds with practical advice on their care and breeding.
London: Salamander Books, 1990. Octavo, colour illustrations, laminated boards.
A birdkeeper's guide to softbills.
London: Salamander, 1987. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards.
Parrots.
London: Salamander Books, 1992. Quarto, colour photogprahps, dustwrapper.
Parrots for pleasure and profit: their breeding and management.
London: Cage Birds, [1908]. Octavo, photograph, coloured stiff card wrappers.
Pheasants: their lives and homes.
Garden City: New York Zoological Society, (1931. first edition). Quarto, colour plates by Lodge and others, a fine set in publisher's cloth. The reduced format version of Beebe's monumental 'A monograph of the pheasants', 1914-1918.
Pigeons: the fascinating saga of the world's most revered and reviled bird.
New York: Grove Press, 2006. Octavo, dustwrapper. Pigeons are athletes of the highest caliber. While racehorses receive all the glory with their 35 mph sprints around a one-mile racetrack, homing pigeons--a mere pound of flesh and feathers--routinely fly more than five hundred miles in a single day at speeds exceeding...
Australian parrots: their habits in the field and aviary.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson limited, 1938. Octavo, eleven colour plates, photographs, text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, bookplate, a very good copy. One of the better twentieth century Australian bird books. All parrot book collectors need a decent copy.
A guide to black cockatoos: as pet and aviary bird.
South Tweed Heads: Australian Birdkeeper, 2005. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, paperback. Chapters on black cockatoos in captivity include taxonomy, conservation, housing, nestlogs, feeding, breeding, infertility, nest inspection, artificial incubation, handrearing, companion birds and diseases and disorders. The individual species section features all the black cockatoo species and subspecies of the...
All about the parrots.
New York: Howell Book House, (1982. reprint). Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper.
Breeding conures.
Neptune City: T.F.H., 1983. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards.
Practical incubation.
Holt Pound: Author, 1990. Octavo, colour illustrations, very good copy in laminated boards.
Records of birds bred in captivity.
London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1926. Octavo, bookplate. Publisher's handsome blue cloth in very good printed dustwrapper, very scarce in this condition.
Adventures with talking birds.
Neptune: TFH, 1981. Octavo, colour photographs, black and white illustrations, laminated boards.
Australian Aviculture Special Edition: a selection of original articles published in Australian Aviculture over forty-two years.
Melbourne: The Avicultural Society of Australia, (1984. reprint). Octavo, paperback.
Parrot incubation procedures.
Prahran: Black Cockatoo Press, 1989. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards.
Aratingas.
Noordbergum: Uitgevetij "Ornis" 1992. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, laminated boards. The photographs accompany practical and clear descriptions in which all the important characteristics of each species are given: sub-species, origin of name, parents and young, sizes and weights, habitat and habits, diet, nesting sites, breeding process, general remarks and mutations.
Australian parakeets and their mutations.
Noorderbergum: Uitgeverij "Ornis" 1992. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in laminated boards.
Perroquets et perruches.
Paris: Editions Boubee, 1962. Tall octavo, eight colour plates by Paul Barruel, a very good copy.
Diets for birds in captivity.
Poole: Blandford Press, 1981. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce.
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Grouse.
Exning: World Pheasant Association, 1982. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations.
Beginner's guide to birdkeeping.
London: Pelham Books, 1976. Octavo, photographs, signed by the author, very good copy in dustwrapper.
Endangered parrots.
Poole: Blandford Press, (1984. first edition). Quarto, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper.
A guide to Grey parrots as pet and aviary birds.
Tweed Heads: Australian Bird Keeper, 2006. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. Comprehensive information on African grey parrots in the wild and in captivity as an aviary and companion bird. Covers topics of history, in the wild, worldwide trade, subspecies, physical characteristics, colour mutations and abnormal colouration. In captivity - accomodation...
A guide to Grey parrots as pet and aviary birds.
Tweed Heads: Australian Bird Keeper, 2006. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Comprehensive information on African grey parrots in the wild and in captivity as an aviary and companion bird. Covers topics of history, in the wild, worldwide trade, subspecies, physical characteristics, colour mutations and abnormal colouration. In captivity - accomodation for...