THE BRITISH BIRDS & ORNITHOLOGY
COLLECTION
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A stunning and truly unique
collection of over 190 rare, out-of-print books and vintage periodicals
compiled together for the first time on one USB flash drive covering all aspects of BRITISH
BIRDS & ORNITHOLOGY.
Read about the natural history
of British birds, both indigenous and migratory. Learn about their nesting
habits and eggs as well as the distribution and history of Britain’s rarer
species. Study the essential characteristics of the orders, families, genera,
and species that inhabit all parts of the British Isles.
Containing a wealth of information on British ornithology and oology, this vast
collection is the ultimate library for any twitcher or bird enthusiast.
Alongside the books, guides and manuals are 48 fascinating volumes of vintage
British bird periodicals (1859 – 1923) such as “Ibis” and “Bird Notes &
News” produced by the British Ornithologists' Club and the British
Ornithologists' Union amongst others. Overall, this is an absolute must for
anyone with an interest in British birds, bird watching and ornithology in
general. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….
Some of the books contained
within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable
library of reference material for anyone with an interest in keeping birds or
even those considering it!
This superb compilation of 193
vintage books magazines provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content
and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been
scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on
your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader.
You can also print entire books or select pages.
This is without doubt the
most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by
rare-book-collections, and only available here!
The Full List of Titles
Included is as Follows:
British Birds - Book Collection:
A birdlover's
year by G. G. Murray (1915)
A compendium
of the ornithology of Great
Britain, with a reference to the anatomy and
physiology of birds by J. Atkinson (1820)
A concise
handbook of British birds by H. K. Swann (1896)
A
geographical bibliography of British ornithology from the earliest time to the
end of 1918 by W. H. Mullens (1920)
A handbook of
British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species
in the British islands by J. E. Harting (1901)
A hand-book
to the birds of Great
Britain Vols. 1 - 4 by R. B. Sharpe (1896)
A hand-list
of British birds, with an account of the distribution of each species in the British Isles and abroad by E. Hartert (1912)
A history of
British birds - 2nd ed. - Vols. 1 - 3 by W. Yarrell (1845)
A history of
British birds - 3rd ed. - Vols. 1 - 3 by W. Yarrell (1856)
A history of
British birds - 4th ed. - Vols. 1 - 4 by W. Yarrell (1871)
A history of
British birds Vols. 1 - 8 by F. O. Morris (1851-57)
A history of
British birds, indigenous and migratory Vols. 1 - 5 by W. Macgillivray (1837)
A history of
the rarer British birds by T. C. Eyton (1836)
A list of
British birds. The genera arranged according to Sundevall's method. The
nomenclature by H. T. Wharton (1877)
A list of
British birds - British Ornithologists' Union
(1883)
A list of
British birds - British Ornithologists' Union
(1915)
A manual of
British ornithology - being a short description of the birds of Great Britain and Ireland by W. Macgillivray (1840)
A natural
history of the nests and eggs of British birds Vols. 1 - 3 by F. O. Morris
(1896)
A pocket-book
of British birds by E. Elms (1906)
A popular
history of British birds' eggs by R. Laishley (1858)
A synoptical
catalogue of British birds; intended to identify the species mentioned by
different names in several catalogues already extant by T. Forster (1817)
A year with
the birds by W. W. Fowler (1891)
Adventures
among birds by W. H. Hudson (1920)
Adventures in
bird-land by O. G. Pike (1907)
Among British
birds in their nesting haunts
illustrated by the camera Vols. 1 - 4 by O. A. J. Lee (1896-9)
Among the
birds in northern shires by C. Dixon (1900)
Annals of
bird life - a year-book of British ornithology by C. Dixon (1890)
At home with
wild nature by R. Kearton (1922)
Behind the
veil in birdland; some nature secrets revealed by pen and camera by O. G. Pike
(1908)
Bird haunts
and nature memories by T. A. Coward (1922)
Bird life in England by E. Arnold
(1887)
Bird-life of
the borders, records of wild sport and natural history on moorland and sea by
A. Chapman (1889)
Birds in the
calendar by F. G. Aflalo (1914)
Birds' nests,
eggs and egg-collecting by R. Kearton (1915)
Birds of Britain
by J. L. Bonhote (1907)
Birds of Great Britain and Ireland Vols. 1 & 2 by A. G.
Butler (1907)
Birds of the British Isles by J. Duncan (1898)
Britain's birds and
their nests by A. L. Thomson (1910)
British birds
- descriptions of all the commoner species, their nests, and eggs by F. Kirkman
(1913)
British birds
- key list by L. H. Irby (1892)
British birds
- their haunts and habits (1868)
British birds
by W. H. Hudson (1921)
British
birds' eggs and nests, popularly described by J. C. Atkinson (1861)
British birds
for cages and aviaries; a handbook relating to all British birds which may be
kept in confinement by W. T. Greene (1899)
British birds
for cages, aviaries, and exhibition Vols. 1 & 2 by S. W. Birchley (1909)
British birds
in their haunts by C. A. Johns (1862)
British
birds' nests, how, where, and when to find and identify them by R. Kearton
(1908)
British birds
with their nests and eggs Vols. 1 - 6 by A. G. Butler (1896-98)
British
nesting birds - a complete record of every species which nests in the British Isles by W. P. Westell (1910)
British
oology - being illustrations of the eggs of British birds, with figures of each
species Vols. 1 & 2 by W. E. Hewitson (1833)
British
ornithology - being the history, with a coloured representation, of every known
species of British birds Vols. 1 - 3 by G. Graves (1821)
British
ornithology - containing portraits of all the British birds including those of
foreign origin which have become domesticated Vols. 1 - 3 by J. Hunt (1815)
Common
British birds - how to identify them by R. Hodges (1919)
Field
observations on British birds by F. M. Ogilvie (1920)
Field-studies
of some rarer British birds by J. Walpole-Bond (1914)
Game birds
and shooting-sketches - illustrating the habits, modes of capture, stages of
plumage and the hybirds & varieties which occur amongst them by J. G.
Millais (1894)
Illustrations
of British ornithology Vols. 1 & 2 by P. J. Selby (1833)
In the green
leaf and the sere by D. Jordan
(1896)
Inland birds;
northern observations by a sportsman by H. M. Batten (1923)
Leaves from a
game book by A. Grimble (1898)
London birds,
and other sketches by T. D. Pigott (1902)
Lord's Entire
new system of ornithology, or, Oecumenical history of British birds by T. Lord
(1791)
Lost British
birds by W. H. Hudson (1894)
Manual of
British birds - including the essential characteristics of the orders,
families, genera, and species by W. Macgillivray (1846)
Nature and
sport in Britain
by H. A. Bryden (1904)
Notes on the
birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood Vols. 1 & 2 by T. Lilford
(1895)
Notes on the
birds of Rainham, including the district between Chatham and Sittingbourne by
W. Prentis (1894)
Observations
of the natural history of swallows by T. Forster (1817)
Ornamental,
aquatic, and domestic fowl, and game birds; their importation, breeding,
rearing, and general management by J. J. Nolan (1850)
Our favourite
song birds; their habits, music, and characteristics by C. Dixon (1897)
Our migrant
birds and how to know them by E. Elms (1922)
Our rarer
birds, being studies in ornithology & oology by C. Dixon (1888)
Our rarer
British breeding birds; their nests, eggs and summer haunts by R. Kearton
(1899)
Our resident
birds and how to know them by E. Elms (1921)
Our summer
migrants. An account of the migratory birds which pass the summer in the
British islands by J. E. Harting (1875)
Plates to
Selby's Illustrations of British ornithology Vols. 1 & 2 by J. P. Selby
(1819)
Provincial
names and folk lore of British birds by C. A. Swainson (1885)
Rambles of a
naturalist in Egypt
& other countries. With an analysis of the claims of certain foreign birds
to be considered British by J. H. Gurney (1876)
Sketch-book
of British birds by R. B. Sharpe (1898)
Some birds of
the countryside; the art of nature by H. J. Massingham (1921)
Stray
feathers from many birds, being leaves from a naturalist's note-book by C.
Dixon (1890)
Studies in
bird migration Vols. 1 & 2 by W. E. Clarke (1912)
The aquatic
birds of Great Britain and Ireland
by C. J. Patten (1906)
The bird book
by A. J. R. Roberts (1903)
The birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire - a contribution to the
natural history of the two counties by A. Kennedy (1868)
The birds of Britain
- their distribution and habits by A. H. Evans (1916)
The birds of
Somersetshire by C. H. Smith (1869)
The birds of
the British Isles and their eggs by T. A.
Coward (1920)
The feathered
tribes of the British
Islands Vols. 1 & 2 by
R. Mudie (1854)
The food of
some British wild birds a study in economic ornithology by W. E. Collinge
(1913)
The game
birds and wild fowl of the British
Islands by C. Dixon
(1900)
The nests and
eggs of British birds - when and where to find them being a handbook to the oology of the British Islands by C. Dixon (1894)
The nests and
eggs of non-indigenous British birds or such species that do not breed within
the British Archipelago by C. Dixon (1894)
The
partridge. Natural history by H. A. Macpherson (1893)
The ready
guide to British birds by B. A. Carter (1912)
The smaller
British birds - with descriptions of their nests, eggs, habits by H. G. Adams
(1894)
The
sportsman's British bird book by R. Lydekker (1908)
The wild-fowl
and sea-fowl of Great Britain
by D. Jordan
(1895)
Wanderings of
a naturalist by S. Gordon (1921)
Wild birds
and their haunts (a book for students and sportsmen) by W. Halliday (1922)
Wild birds
through the year by G. Dewar (1913)
Wings and
hackle; a pot-pourri of fly fishing for trout and grayling and of notes on bird
life, chiefly in Hampshire, Devon and
Derbyshire by R. Hill (1912)
With the
birds on hillside, rock, and dale by O. G. Pike (1903)
British Bird Periodical
& Magazine Collection:
Bird notes
(Volume 1, 1903) - Foreign Bird Club
Bird notes
(Volume 2, 1903-1904) - Foreign Bird Club
Bird notes
(Volume 2, 1911) - Foreign Bird Club
Bird notes
(Volume 3, 1904-1905) - Foreign Bird Club
Bird notes
(Volume 4, 1905-1906) - Foreign Bird Club
Bird notes
(Volume 4, 1913) - Foreign Bird Club
Bird notes
(Volume 5, ser. 3, 1922) - Foreign Bird Club
Bird notes
(Volume 6) - Foreign Bird Club
Bird notes
(Volume 6, ser, 3, 1923) - Foreign Bird Club
Bird notes
(Volume 7, 1908-1909) - Foreign Bird Club
Bird notes
(Volume 7, 1916) - Foreign Bird Club
Bird notes
(Volume 8, 1917) - Foreign Bird Club
Bird notes
and news (Volume 2, 1906-1907) - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Bird notes
and news (Volume 3, 1908-1909) - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Bird notes
and news (Volume 4, 1910-1911) - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Bird notes
and news (Volume 5, 1912-1913) - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Bird notes
and news (Volume 7, 1916-1917) - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Bird notes
and news (Volume 8, 1918-1919) - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Bird notes
and news (Volume 9, 1920-1921) - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Bird notes
and news (Volume 10, 1922-1923) - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Bulletin of
the British Ornithologists' Club (Volume 22, 1908) - British Ornithologists'
Club
Bulletin of
the British Ornithologists' Club (Volume 32, 1913) - British Ornithologists'
Club
Bulletin of
the British Ornithologists' Club (Volume 34, 1914) - British Ornithologists'
Club
Ibis (Volume
1, 1859) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
1, ser. 3, 1871) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
1, ser. 4, 1877) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
2, 1860) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
2, 1866) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
2, ser. 3, 1872) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
2, ser. 4, 1878) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
2, ser. 5, 1884) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
3, 1861) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
3, 1867) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
3, ser. 5, 1885) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
4, 1862) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
4, ser. 3, 1874) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
4, ser. 3, 1879) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
4, ser. 5, 1896) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
5, 1863) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
5, 1869) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
5, ser. 3, 1875) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
5, ser. 5, 1887) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
6, 1864) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
6, ser. 3, 1876) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
6, ser. 4, 1882) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
1859-1876) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
1859-1894) - British Ornithologists' Union
Ibis (Volume
1877-1894) - British Ornithologists' Union
An absolute must
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