Showing posts with label Field Guides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Field Guides. Show all posts

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]