London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings. Beloved by people as the herald of spring, for many birds the cuckoo is a signal of doom. Known for being a notorious cheat, cuckoos across the world have evolved extraordinary tricks to manipulate other species into raising their young... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Folio, dustwrapper, colour illustrations by Albert Earl Gilbert, maps. This is a definitive natural history of the spectacularly beautiful tropical birds known as the Trogons, a family that includes the legendary Resplendent quetzal, the sacred bird of the ancient Mayans and Aztecs. A collaboration between... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white photographs, illustrations. Reaktion Animal Series. Highly regarded woodpecker expert Gerard Gorman presents a unique natural, social, and cultural history of woodpeckers. Woodpeckers are among the most remarkable birds, having evolved a unique anatomy enabling them to peck and bore... More
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, (2014. second edition). Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Borneo has three species of swiftlets which build edible nests. This book clarifies the nature of these nests, the troglodytic lives of the birds that build them, and the exploitation of this highly valuable natural resource. This... More
Plymouth: Wild Nature Press, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. A bird much more often heard than actually seen, cuckoos are well known for their habit of laying their own eggs into the nests of much smaller species, such as reed warblers, who are then doomed to raise the enormous... More
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 2004. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 57. More
Singapore: Nature's Niche, 2013. Oblong format, paperback, colour photographs, maps. The first photographic monograph to the order of Bucerotiformes. Photographs illustrate all 57 species in tropical Africa and in Asia, male as well as female, and all distinct subspecies. Detailed descriptions of each species provides information distribution, ecology and habitats... More
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, black and white photographs, maps. Nearly two feet long with striking black, white, and red plumage, the Ivory-billed and Imperial woodpeckers were two of the most impressive woodpeckers in the world. Both species were known to be in serious... More