The Complete Guide to Australian Birds. Featuring 'in the Field' images from Australia's Best Wildlife Photographers
[North Sydney], Viking, 2018. More
Ornithology
The Australian Bushland
North Melbourne, W.A. Hamer, 1950. More
Audubon's Birds of America
New York, Abbeville Press, 1981 [first thus]. 'The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio' differs from earlier editions of the work in a number of substantial ways. Not least, the plates 'are organized not in the order that Audubon produced them for his subscribers but phylogenetically; that is, in a modern..... More
The Canary Islands. Their History, Natural History and Scenery. An Account of an Ornithologist's Camping Trips in the Archipelago
London, Gurney and Jackson, 1922. More
The New Atlas of Australian Birds
Hawthorn East, Birds Australia (Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union), 2003. More
The Log of the Sun. A Chronicle of Nature's Year
New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1906 [first edition]. 'In the fifty-two short essays of this volume I have presented familiar objects from unusual points of view. Bird's-eye glances and insect's-eye glances, at the nature of our woods and fields, will reveal beauties which are wholly invisible from the usual..... More
The Atlas of Australian Birds
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1984. Includes the loosely inserted six transparent overlays in the original folded leaf (a trifle torn), and a copy of the publisher's order form. More
Buller's Birds of New Zealand... edited and brought up to date by E.G. Turbott
London, MacDonald, 1967/ 1888 [second edition]/ 1873. More
List of Birds collected by the Calvert Expedition in West Australia. With Field Notes by G.A. Keartland, Naturalist to the Expedition. [Contained in] Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 22, Part 2, 1898
Adelaide, RSSA, 1898. Keartland's field notes make this far more interesting than the 'List of Birds' title suggests. For example, he concludes his account of the Nankeen kestrel thus: 'I took four eggs from a tree near our camp, and was surprised to find the nest lined with pellets of..... More
Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, including the Geographical Distribution of the Species and Popular Observations thereon
Sheffield, Printed for the Author by Pawson & Brailsford, 1900 (printed on a corrigendum slip pasted over the date 1901 on the title page). The black and white plates, after photographs primarily by the author, but also by Sidney Jackson and Dudley Le Souef, include many interesting scenes in the..... More
Birds of the Sudan. Their Identification and Distribution
Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1955. Illustrated by D.M. Reid Henry. More
What Bird Is That?
Dingley, Redwood Editions, 2000 (revised edition)/ 1931. 'A completely revised and updated edition of the classic Australian ornithological work'. Revised by Terence R. Lindsey. More
Neville Cayley. His Royal Zoological Society of NSW Collection of Parrots and Cockatoos of Australia
Sydney, A.H. & A.W. Reed Pty Ltd, 1980. Number 14 of 250 copies of the deluxe issue signed by the author and June Reed (the publisher). Loosely inserted are two prints after drawings by Neville Cayley. More
Birds, Birders & Birdwatching, 1899-1999. Celebrating One Hundred Years of the South Australian Ornithological Association
Adelaide, South Australian Ornithological Association Inc., 2000. Foreword by Grahame Pizzey. More
Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic. Volume IV. Terns to Woodpeckers
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1985. More
Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic. Volume I: Ostrich to Ducks [and] Volume II: Hawks to Bustards
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1978 (second impression)/ 1977 and 1980. [2 items]. More
Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic. Volume IX. Buntings and New World Warblers
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994. Stanley Cramp is listed as editor despite having died in 1987; he saw the first four volumes of the series to press. More
Parrots & Pigeons of Australia
Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1992. 'Covers 54 species of parrots (including cockatoos and lorikeets), and 27 species of pigeons and doves ... magnificent colour photographs portray the biology of each species' (dustwrapper blurb). The seventh volume (of ten) in The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife series. More
Hawks in Focus. A Study of Australia's Birds of Prey
Mildura, Jaclin [The Authors], 1981. More
The Pheasants of the World
Hindhead, Spur Publications in conjunction with The World Pheasant Association, 1977 (second edition)/ 1951. More
The Waterfowl of the World. Volume Three: Eiders, Pochards, Perching Ducks, Scoters, Golden-Eyes and Mergansers [and] Stiff-Tailed Ducks
London, Country Life, 1959. Illustrated by Peter Scott. More
The Waterfowl of the World. Volume Two: The Dabbling Ducks
London, Country Life, 1956. Illustrated by Peter Scott. More
Audubon. Early Drawings
Cambridge, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. More
The Birds of Ancient Egypt
Cairo, The American University in Cairo Press, 1994. More
Australian Parrots
Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, 1981 (second revised edition)/ 1969. More