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BRITISH BIRDS OF THE WILD PLACES
Written by J. Wentworth Day. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Stock no. 2140553
Published by Blandford Press. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Yellow boards, dark blue title to spine and decoration to front cover. Illustrated with 49 colour illustrations and 18 b/w by Tunnicliffe. 88 pages. A few marks to cover edges. Browning and foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few chips and nicks; some grubby marks; a little fading.

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MANKA THE SKY GIPSY
Written by BB. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 2140183
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1939. Almost very good condition.

The Story of a Wild Goose. Cream cloth spine, with gilt title; blue cloth covers. B/w frontis and b/w text illustration. 258 pages. Staining to top of spine, which is also browned and bumped. Small nick to blue cloth where it attaches to cloth spine on front cover. Bumping to corners. Browning to cover edges and page edges.

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ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF COWBIRDS AND THEIR HOSTS
Written by James N.M. Smith; Terry L. Cook; Stephen I. Rothstein; Scott K. Robinson; Spencer G. Sealy.
Stock no. 1323098
Published by University of Texas Press. 1st 2000. Very good condition.

Foreword by Paul R. Ehrlich. Collecting forty essays by the principal authorities on the biology and management of cowbirds. Large, heavy format. Glazed boards. 388 pages. B/w diagrams. ISBN: 0292777388. Spine and corners bumped. Spine faded. A couple of score marks to rear cover. Small sticky mark to lower edge of front cover (beside spine). Light mark to front free-endpaper else contents fine.

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DIE GREIFVOGEL DER WELT
Written by Friedhelm Weick.
Stock no. 1823818
Published by Paul Parey. 1st 1980. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Birds of Prey of the World. A coloured guide to identification of all the diurnal species order Falconiformes. Dual text in English and German. Light brown mottled cloth with dark brown title to spine. B/w sketches and colour illustrations. ISBN: 349008618X. Light vertical crease to front flap of dustwrapper. Contents are fine.

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HUMMINGBIRDS: THEIR LIFE AND BEHAVIOUR
Written by Esther Quesada Tyrrell.
Stock no. 2139783
Published by Crown Publishers Inc.. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue cloth with silver title to spine. Colour photos. ISBN: 0517553368. Small knocks to a couple of corners. Wrapper has very light edge-creasing. Contents are excellent!

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BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION USING UMBRELLA SPECIES
Written by Futoshi Nakamura.
Stock no. 1323003
Published by Springer. Nearly fine condition.

Blakiston's Fish Owl and the Red-crowned crane. Ecological Research Monographs series, edited by Nakamura. Glazed boards. ISBN: 9789811072024. Corners bumped else fine, still in original shrinkwrap.

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HANDBOOK OF THE BIRDS OF EUROPE THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA VOLUME VII FLYCATCHERS TO SHRIKES
Written by Stanley Cramp; et al.
Stock no. 2139595
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Birds of the Western Palearctic. Colour & b/w illustrations. 577 pages plus egg plates. ISBN: 0198575106. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Pale page edge browning. Wrapper is edge-creased with fading to spine and some grubby marks.

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HARRIERS OF THE WORLD: THEIR BEHAVIOUR AND ECOLOGY
Written by Robert E. Simmons. Illustrated by John R. Simmons.
Stock no. 2139553
Published by Oxford University Press. 1ST 2000. Very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0198549644. Some grubby marks to covers; creasing to corners. Name and date to inside front cover. Browning to outer page edges.

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THE LION AND THE GAZELLE
Written by P.N. Humphreys; E. Kahrom.
Stock no. 2139242
Published by Comma International Biological Systems. 1st 1995. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The mammals and birds of Iran. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 0951397761. Bumping to spine, wear along cover edges. Name in ink to half-title page. Ink stamp to title page, some transfer to opposite page. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased, with a faded spine.

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HOW BIRDS WORK
Written by Ron Freethy.
Stock no. 2139127
Published by Blandford Press. 1983. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A Guide to Bird Biology. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and colour plates. ISBN: 0713711566. Wrapper has 1" closed tear to one edge and creasing.

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BIRDS BY NIGHT
Written by Graham Martin. Illustrated by John Busby.
Stock no. 2139123
Published by T. & A.D. Poyser. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The book brings together field ornithology, sensory science, ecology and physics and compares the sensory capacities of other animals incluyding man. Hearing, smell and touch as well as vision play a crucial role in the nightime activities of birds. B/w illustrations and photos. ISBN: 0856610593. Slight scuff along front cover. A few light marks to wrapper.

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LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN DIVING BIRDS
Written by Arthur Cleveland Bent.
Stock no. 2139121
Published by Dover Publications Inc.. 1963. Very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w photos. Auk, Grebe, Auklet, Guillemot, Loon, Puffin, Dovekie, Murre, Murrelet. Republication of the original 1919 edition. ISBN: 048621091X. Some light wear to edges and corners.

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