Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Octavo, paperback, photographs, maps. A comprehensive photographic guide to the gull species of the Western Palearctic Gulls occupy a particularly important place in the world of birds. But because they are notoriously difficult to identify, they have been relatively neglected in the ornithological literature. Gulls..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2019. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. New Naturalist # 139. There are more than 50 known species of gulls, and many of these are well-adapted to living in urban areas and in close proximity to humans. But there are also less familiar species to discover, which keep..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2022. second edition), Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. An acclaimed photographic guide to these marvelous and enigmatic birds—now in a new, updated edition Penguins are perhaps the most beloved birds. On land, their behavior appears so humorous and expressive that we can be excused for attributing to..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. One of the great seabird reference books. Petrels, albatrosses, and storm-petrels are among the least known of all the world's birds, living their lives at sea far from the sight of most people. Enigmatic and fast-flying, seabirds..... More
Durham, NH: University Press of New Hampshire Press, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. King goes back in time and around the world to show us the history, nature, ecology, and economy of the world’s most misunderstood waterbirds. Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick..... More
Durham, NH: University of New England, 2014. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably..... More
London: Icon Books, 2021. Octavo, dustwrapper, Ten weeks into its life, a Manx shearwater chick will emerge from its burrow and fly 8,000 miles from the west coast of the British Isles to the South Atlantic. It will be unlikely to touch land again for four years. Part memoir, part..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. Until recently, gulls were a group that inspired dread among birders, due to the bewildering variety of plumages, age-groups, and races, many of which are very difficult indeed to separate, even to species. Things changed in 2003 with the publication of..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2007. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. Famous for their size and elegance in flight, albatrosses are familiar to anyone who has travelled through the southern oceans, and are a flagship family of conservation concern. However, albatrosses are just one of several groups of 'pelagic'..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Presents detailed biographies of all the seabird species that breed in and around the British Isles, and also looks at the many species that breed elsewhere but which, regularly or occasionally, visit British waters. Every page of this sumptuous book features beautiful..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The vibrant and exciting world of penguins is shown in all its glory in this new book from renowned wildlife photographer David Tipling, who has trekked to remote and beautiful locations to capture birds in their natural habitat going about their daily..... More