Bibby, C.J. et al. Bird Census Techniques.
Pub. Academic Press. 1992 pp.xvii, 257 with figs. Spine slighlty faded otherwise a fine hdbk copy.
£20.00 [ref: 42197]

Bickerton, W. The Home Life of the Terns or Sea Swallows.
Pub. Witherby & Co. 1912 pp.88 with 32 monochrome, mounted photographs. Hardback. A minor amount of foxing o/w. contents in fine condition. Original boards a little marked in places o/w. thor. vg.
A fascinating period insight.
£9.00 [ref: 29307]

Bickerton, W. The Home-Life of the Terns or Sea Swallows.
1st. Ed. Pub. Witherby & Co. 1912 pp.88 plus 32 pages of mounted b/w. photographic plates. Small 4to. Thor. vg. hardback.
£10.00 [ref: 58255]

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Bird, A.V. (Ed.). The Paintings of Norman Lighton for Roberts Bird of South Africa.
Std. Ed. Pub. South African Natural History Publication Company. [n.d. c.1976] pp.[9] plus 56 full-page colour plates from original paintings. Large folio. Ownership insc. Thor. vg. hardback. Copy of an extract from ‘Wilderness Letter’ by Wallace Stegner loosely inserted.
Norman Charles Kingsley Lighton (1904-1981) was born in Wonderboom near Pretoria, and began his working life as an architect, but is far better known as a painter of birds. In 1936 he was seconded to the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria to illustrate Dr Austin Roberts's book ‘The Birds of South Africa’, first published in 1940. As well as illustrating other bird books, he continuted to supply illustrations for subsequent editions until the fourth edition published in 1978.
£40.00 [ref: 61550]

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Birding World Complete List of the Birds of the Western Palearctic.
1st. Ed. Pub. Birding World. 1995 pp.21. 8vo. Fine softback. Out-of-print. Complete checklist with columns for recording sightings.
£7.50 [ref: 55875]

Birkan, M. et al. (Eds.). Gibier Faune Sauvage. Vol. 9. First International Symposium on Partridges, Quails and Francolins.
Pub. N.S. 1992 pp.283-918. with tables throughout. A vg. copy in spine-faded card covers. Text in French and English.
£8.00 [ref: 42008]

Birkhead, T. et al. Ten Thousand Birds. Ornithology since Darwin.
1st. Ed. Pub. Princeton Uni. Press. 2014 pp.xvii, [iii], 524 with colour, b/w. photos. and illus. Small 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
Describes how in the early 1900s pioneering individuals such as Erwin Stresemann, Ernst Mayr, and Julian Huxley recognized the importance of studying live birds in the field, and how this shift thrust ornithology into the mainstream of the biological sciences. Tells the stories of eccentrics like Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen and influential figures such as David Lack, Niko Tinbergen, Robert MacArthur and many others.
£20.00 [ref: 60057]

Birkhead, T.R. The Magpies. The ecology and behaviour of Black-billed and Yellow-billed Magpies.
1st. Ed. Pub. Poyser. 1991 pp.270 with colour frontis., and b/w. photos. and. illus. 8vo. Nr. fine hdbk. in fine dw.
£40.00 [ref: 60270]

Bishop, Billy. Cley Marsh and its Birds. Fifty years as Warden.
1st. Ed. Pub. Boydell Press. 1983 pp.133 with colour frontis., b/w. photos., illus., and map endpapers. 8vo. Bookplate. Dedication “Best Wishes, April 1983, Billy Bishop” below frontis., and article about Billy Bishop from the Eastern Daily Press, 1983, neatly tipped in on rfep. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw. A unique copy.
Comes with two copies of ‘History of Cley Marshes’ by Lieut.-Col. Hubert Blount (1964 & 1968 respectively). The 1968 copy is revised and updated.
£75.00 [ref: 55917]

Bishop, L.B. Birds of the Yukon Region. With Notes on Other Species.
Pub. U.S. Department Agriculture. 1900 pp.48-100. In original paper covers. With the ownership stamp of a previous American owner to front cover and first page of text. Contents in fine condition. A thoroughly vg. copy.
£25.00 [ref: 46759]