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Bird Books

ADAMS, H G : Nests and Eggs of Familiar British Birds (1871 Groombridge)
ADAMS, H G & ADAMS, H B : The Smaller British Birds
(1874 Bell)
H G ALEXANDER : Seventy Years of Birdwatching
(1974 Poyser)

D A BANNERMAN & G E LODGE : The Birds of the British Isles
(1953-63 Oliver & Boyd) - 12 vols
E V BAXTER & L J RINTOUL : The Birds of Scotland
(1953 Oliver & Boyd) - 2 vols
BEWICK, T : History of British Birds
(1797-1804 Beilby & Bewick) - 2 vols
BORRER, W : The Birds of Sussex
(1891 Porter)
BREE, C R : A History of the Birds of Europe, Not Observed in the British Isles
(1859-67 Groombridge) - 4 vols
P BROWN : The Return of the Osprey
(1962 Collins) - with G Waterston
The Scottish Ospreys - from Extinction to Survival
(1979 Heinemann)
BUTLER, A G : British Birds Eggs, A Handbook of British Oology
(1885-6 Janson)

Bruce CAMPBELL : Finding Nests
(1953 Collins)
Field Guide to Birds' Nests
(1972 Constable) - with J Ferguson-Lees
CHANCE, Edgar : The Cuckoo's Secret
(1922 Sidgwick)
CHANCE, Edgar : The Truth about the Cuckoo
(1940 Country Life)
CLARKE, W E : Studies in Bird Migration
(1912 Gurney) - 2 vols
E COHEN : The Birds of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
(1963 Oliver & Boyd)

G DES FORGES & D D HARBER : A Guide to the Birds of Sussex
(1963 Oliver & Boyd)
DIXON, C : Our Rare Birds
(1888 Bentley)
The Migration of Birds
(1892 Chapman & Hall)
The Nests and Eggs of British Birds
(1893 Chapman & Hall) + Large Paper Edition
The Gamebirds and Wildfowl of the British Isles
(1893 C & H) - H J Elwes
(1900 Pawson & Brailsford. 2nd Ed) - Charles Whymper
The Migration of British Birds
(1895 C & H)
The Migration of Birds
(1897 Horace Cox)
Bird Life in a Southern County
(1899 Walter Scott)
DOWKER, G : A Tabulated List of the Birds of East Kent
(1890 Gurney & Jackson)
R DURMAN : Bird Observations in Britain & Ireland
(1976 Poyser)

James FISHER : The Fulmar
(1952 Collins New Naturalist)
The Shell Bird Book
(1966 Ebury Press & Michael Joseph)
Sea-Birds
(1954 Collins) - with R M Lockley

E H GILHAM & R C HOLMES : The Birds of the North Kent Marshes
(1950 Collins)
GLEGG, W E : A History of the Birds of Essex
(1929 Witherby)
GLEGG, W E : A History of the Birds of Middlesex
(1935 Witherby)
GORDON, Seton : Birds of the Loch and Mountain
(1907 Cassell)
Hill Birds of Scotland
(1915 Arnold)
Days with the Golden Eagle
(1927 Williams)
Thirty Years of Nature Photography
(1936 Cassell)
GREY, R & ANDERSON, T : The Birds of Ayrshire and Wigtownshire
(1869 Murray)
GREENE, W T : Parrots in Captivity
(1884-7 Groombridge) - 4 vols
J H GURNE : The Gannet - A Bird with a History
(1913 Witherby)
Early Annals of Ornithology
(1921 Witherby)

J E HARTING : The Birds of Middlesex
(1866 Van Voorst)
The Ornithology of Shakespeare
(1871 Van Voorst)
A Handbook of British Birds
(1872 Van Voorst)
Sketches of Bird Life
(1883 Allen)
Bibliotheca Accippitraria
(1891 London) - falconry
A Handbook of British Birds
(1901 Nimmo)
P A D HOLLOM : Popular Handbook of British Birds
(1952 Witherby)
Popular Handbook of Rarer British Birds
(1960 Witherby)
HORSFIELD, H Knight : English Bird Life
(1908 Everett)
HOWARD, H E : The British Warblers
(1907-15 R H Porter)
Territory in Bird Life
(1920 Murray)
An Introduction to the Study of Bird Behaviour
(1929 Cambridge)
The Nature of a Bird's World
(1935 Cambridge)
A waterhen's World
(1940 Cambridge)

JOHNS, C A : Birds, Nests & Eggs
(1954 SPCK)
Birds of the Wood & Field
(1959-62 SPCK) - 3 vols
British Birds in Their Haunts
(1862 SPCK)
British Birds in Their Haunts
(1888 SPCK - 7th Ed)

J KEAR & N DUPLAIX-HALL : Flamingos
(1975 Poyser)
KEARTON, R : Birds' Nests, Eggs and Egg Collecting
(1890 Cassell)
British Birds' Nests
(1895 Cassell)
With Nature and a Camera
(1897 Cassell)
Our Rarer British Breeding Birds
(1899 Cassell)
KELSALL, J E & MUNN, P W : Birds of Hampshire & the Isle of Wight
(1905 Witherby)
P G KENNEDY : The Birds of Ireland
(1954 Oliver & Boyd) - et al
KIRKE-NASH, J : The Birds of Midlothian
(1935 Witherby)

David LACK : The Birds of Cambridgeshire
(1934 Cambridge Bird Club)
The Life of the Robin
(1941 Witherby) (1965 Witherby - Enlarged Ed)
Darwin's Finches
(1947 CUP)
Swifts in a Tower
(1956 Methuen)
Population Studies of Birds
(1966 Clarendon Press)
Ecological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds
(1968 Methuen)
Ecological Isolation in Birds
(1971 Blackwell)
Evolution Illustrated by Waterfowl
(1974 Blackwell)
LEE, O A J : Among British Birds in Their Nesting Haunts
(1896-9 Douglas) - 4 vols
L R W LLOYD : The Birds of South East Devon
(1929 Witherby)

MACGILLIVRAY, W : A History of British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory
(1837-52 Scott vols 1-3, Orr vols 4 & 5) - 5 vols
J M McWILLIAM : The Birds of the Isle of Bute
(1927 Witherby)
The Birds of the Firth of Clyde
(1936 Witherby)
MONTAGU, George : Ornithological Dictionary
(1802 White) - 2 vols
Supplement to the Ornithological Dictionary
(1813 White) - Eliza Dorville
Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds
(1821 White) - 2nd Ed
MORRIS, B R : British Gamebirds and Wildfowl
(1855 Groombridge)
MORRIS, F O : A History of British Birds
(1850-57) - 6 vols
A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds
(1853-56 Groombridge) - 3 vols
MUDIE, R : The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands
(1834 Whittaker)

B NELSON : The Gannet
(1978 Poyser)
D NETHERSOLE-THOMPSON : The Greensdhank
(1951 Collins New Naturalist)
The Snow Bunting
(1966 Oliver & Boyd) (1993 Peregrine £27)
The Dotterel
(1973 Collins New Naturalist)
Pine Crossbills
(1975 Poyser)
(Ed) NEWMAN, E : A Dictionary of British Birds (1866 Sonnenschein)

C OAKES : The Birds of Lancashire
(1953 Oliver & Boyd)

J PARSLOW : Breeding Birds of Britain and Ireland
(1973 Poyser)
PATON, E R & PIKE, O G : The Birds of Ayrshire
(1929 Witherby)
PIKE, O G : In Birdland with Fieldglass and Camera
(1900 Unwin)
PIKE, Oliver : Homelife in Bird-Land
(1905 RTS)
Adventures in Bird-Land
(1907 RTS)
Behind the Veil in Bird-Land
(1908 RTS)
PRATT, A : Our Native Songsters
(1852 SPCK)


RIVIERE, B B : A History of the Birds of Norfolk
(1930 Witherby)
E H RODD : The Birds of Cornwall and the Scilly Isles
(1880 Trubner)

Sir Peter SCOTT : Morning Flight
(1936 Country Life) + Ltd Ed
Wild Chorus
(1938 Country Life) + Ltd ed
Wild Geese and Eskimoes
(1951 Country Life)
A Thousand Geese
(1953 Collins)
The Swans
(1972 Michael Joseph)
Wildfowl of the British isles
(1957 Country Life) - with H Boyd
SEEBOHM, H : A History of British Birds
(1883-5 Porter) - 4 vols
Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds
(1896 Pawson & Brailsford)
SELOUS, Edmund : Bird Watching
(1901 Dent)
The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands
(1905 Dent)
Bird Life Glimpses
(1905 Allen)
Realities of Bird Life
(1927 Constable)
Evolution of Habit in Birds
(1933 Constable)
J T R SHARROCK : Scarce Migrants in Britain & Ireland
(1974 Poyser)
STEVENSON, H : The Birds of Norfolk
(1866-1890 Van Voorst) - 3 vols
J D SUMMERS-SMITH : The House Sparrow
(1963 Collins)

THOMPSON, A L : Problems of Bird Migration
(1926 Witherby)

WALPOLE BOND, J A : Bird Life in Wild Wales
(1903 Unwin)
Field Studies of Some Rarer British Birds
(1914 Witherby)
A History of the Birds of Sussex
(1938 Witherby) - 3 vols
D WATSON : The Hen Harrier
(1977 Poyser)
K WILLIAMSON : Fir isle and Its Birds
(1965 Oliver & Boyd)
WITHERBY, H F, etc : A Practical Handbook of British Birds
(1920-4 Witherby)
The Handbook of British Birds
(1938-41 Witherby) - 5 vols. et al
(Ed) WITHERBY, H F etc : British Birds Journal (1907-11 Vols 1 to 5; 1912-1939 Vols 6 to 33;
1940-1980 Vols 34 to 74)
YARRELL, W : A History of British Birds
(1837-43 Van Voorst) - 4 vols

READING
W M Mullens & H K Swann : A Bibliography of British Ornithology from Earliest
Times to End of 1912
(1917-23 Witherby, London)
J T Zimmer : Catalogue of Edward E Ayer Ornithological Library
(1926 Chicago)
Jean Anker : Bird Books and Bird Art
(1938 Copenhagen)
R Irwin : British Bird Books - An Index to British Ornithology 1481-1948
(1951 London)
Raymond Irwin : British Bird Books - A Guide to Modern British Ornithology
(1952 London)
S Sitwell, H Buchanan & James Fisher : Fine Bird Books 1700-1900
(1953 Collins)
+ a De Luxe Ed of 295 in slipcase

Related Writers

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See also

Sacheverell Sitwell