Thursday, 19 October 2017

Field Guide to Field Guides (book list for the MBS)

   A Field Guide to Field Guides : Book List

The Macmillan Field Guide to Bird Identification: Vinicombe, Keith; Alan Harris; Laurel Tucker
Pan Macmillan (1989), Hardcover, 192 pages 1989
91 species. Out of print. New edition
[0333427734, 9780333427736]

Collins Bird Guide: The Most Complete Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe: Svensson, Lars; Killian Mullarney
Harpercollins Pub Ltd (1998), Hardcover, 512 pages 1998
722 species. Improved second edition now available, £13.59
[0002197286, 9780002197281]

The handbook of British birds: Witherby, Harry Forbes; Francis Charles Robert Jourdain; Norman Frederic Ticehurst; Bernard William Tucker
London: H. F. & G. Witherby ltd., 1938-41. 5 v : illus. (incl. maps) plates (part col.) ; 23 cm.1938
Out of print

The handbook of bird identification : for Europe and the western Palearctic: Beaman, Mark; Steve Madge
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1998. 868 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 25 cm. 1998
Almost 900 species, 600 breeding species. Out of print, second hand around £40.00
[0691027269, 9780691027265]

Waders of Europe, Asia and North America (Helm Field Guides): Message, Stephen; Don Taylor Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd (2005), Hardcover, 240 pages
124 species. £30.00
[071365290X, 9780713652901]

Birds of Europe : with North Africa and the Middle East: Jonsson, Lars
London: Christopher Helm, 1996. 560p. col. ill. 20 cm pbk
ca 500 species. Out of print
[0713644222, 9780713644227]

A field guide to the birds of Britain and Europe: Peterson, Roger T.; Guy Mountfort; P. A. D. Hollom
London: Collins, 1983. 1 v. ; ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm. ; hbk. 4th rev. and enlarged ed
First published 1954 now replaced by Collins Bird Guide
[0002190737, 9780002190732]

The Shell guide to the birds of Britain and Ireland; Ferguson-Lees, James; Ian Willis; J. T. R. Sharrock
London: M. Joseph, 1983. 336 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
263 species and 214 vagrants. Out of print
[0718122194, 9780718122195]

Sibley's Birding Basics: Sibley, David Allen
Knopf (2002), Paperback, 168 pages
£12.99
[0375709665, 9780375709661]

Birds of the wayside and woodland: Coward, T. A edited by Enid Blyton
F.Warne (1936), 352 pages
based on the standard work "The Birds of the British Isles" by T. A Coward
The Observer's Book of Birds; Benson, S. Vere
Frederick Warne & Co. (1952), Hardcover
236 species

Birds Britannica: Cocker, Mark; Richard Mabey
London : Chatto & Windus, 2005
350 species in main text. £34.99
[0701169079, 9780701169077]

Advanced bird ID guide : Western Palearctic : every plumage of all 1,300 species and subspecies recorded in Britain, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East: Duivendijk, Nils van
London : New Holland, 2010
1300 species and subspecies. £14.99
[9781847736079, 1847736076]

The Helm Guide to Bird Identification: Vinicombe, Keith; Alan Harris
A&C Black (2014), Paperback, 400 pages
243 species. £24.99 successor to the Macmillan Guide to Bird Identification
[1408130351, 9781408130353]

RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds: Second Edition:Harrap, Simon
A & C Black Publishers Ltd (2012), Edition: 2nd Revised edition, 224 pages
215 species £6.99
[1408174561, 9781408174562]

RSPB Handbook of British Birds: Holden, Peter
Bloomsbury Natural History (2014), Edition: Anniversary ed of 4th revised ed, 320 pages
270 species, 26 vagrants £10.99
[1472906470, 9781472906472]

Britain's birds : an identification guide to the birds of Britain and Ireland: Hume, Rob; David Tipling; Andy Swash; Rob Still; Hugh Harrop
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2016
Every bird recorded in Britain - every plumage. 598 species £14.95
[9780691158891, 0691158894]

Birds of the Western Palearctic (BWP): Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa: Cramp, Stanley
Oxford UP,1977 - 1994 9 volumes, Out of print
[ 9780198548904]

The Birdwatcher's Pocket Guide to Britain and Europe: Hayman, Peter; Rob Hume
Bounty Books 2014 Out of Print
[9780753726280]

Crow Country: Cocker. Mark
London: Vintage, 2007
[978 0 099 48505 7]

Corvus: Wolfson, Esther
London: Granta, 2008


[978 3 84708 080 4]