Search Results: Titles starting with S from Fieldfare Books

SA: Struik Nature, 2011-10-01. 4th. Paperback. Excellent/NO. 209 x 147 mm. NO. This field guide to the birds of Southern Africa incorporates many features to allow the reader to quickly and easily identify birds and find information about them. Each species account provides the bird's common name in English and Afrikaans, its scientific name, its Roberts number and its length. To help identify species, information is provided on plumage of the male, female and immature bird, typical behaviour, voice, habitat and nests and food. To make the information more accessible, entries are colour coded, reduced bird images make finding bird groups easier and a list of bird families in alphabetical order with their page references appears inside the front cover for quick reference. Recent discoveries and reclassifications are included and the text and maps have been updated.As new with slight wear on the cover.

T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1974-01-01. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. The Author takes a ten year period and investigates in detail all the records of a selection of birds which occur here as scarce migrants - birds from Europe, from Asia and from America.The Jacket is tapped onto the cover and it has been price clipped.

T. & A. D. Poyser, 1974-01-01. 1st. Hardcover. Very good/Good. 223 x 145 mm. NO. How many are seen? How regularly do they come? where do the occur? When are they likely to be spotted? The above questions are authoritatively answered by the author, Dr. J.T.R. Sharrock, honorary secretary of the British Ornithologists' Union's Record Committee and of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel [and so forth]. Dr. Sharrock takes a ten-year period and investigates in detail all the records of a selection of birds which occur here as scarce migrants - birds from Europe, from Asia and from America. He considers their breeding and wintering ranges, and the patterns of their records in Britain and Ireland, and tries to determine, also, why do they visit us at all?" Chapters include: Hoopoe, golden oriole and tawny pipit; Melodious warbler, icterine warbler and woodchat shrike; Rough-leggend buzzard, Temminck's stint and long-tailed skua; Bluethroat and ortolan bunting; American birds; Greensih… Read More

T. & A. D. Poyser, 1974-01-01. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. The Author takes a ten year period and investigates in detail all the records of a selection of birds which occur here as scarce migrants-birds from Europe, from Asia and from America. He considers their breeding and wintering ranges and their patterns to determine why they visit.

Heinemann, 1979. Hardback. Very Good. 9x7x1. Telling the story of the forced excile of Osprey for over 40 years and the launch of Operation Osprey in the early 1950s that saw the return and rearing of the first two chicks in 1954, told by Philip Brown who was, initially, responsible for the maintenance and development of the RSPB bird reserves.

Scottish Ornithologists Club, 2010. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. This book contains original papers relating to ornithology in Scotland, short notes on bird observations, topical articles and club related news, reports of rare and scarce bird sightings and information on birding sites.

Royal Naval Bird Watching Society, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. This is a Handbook for Passengers and Seafarers containing a description of all birds that may be encountered on a voyage from New Zealand to Panama, with notes, illustrations and a guide to their identification.The cover is a little faded along the edges and spine. The Jacket has been price clipped and is a little worn.

Oliver & Boyd, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. This book is concerned with a certain number of birds which live on the islands, coasts and seas of Northern Europe. There are hundreds of species which inhabit the vast expanses of the sea. The cover is a little worn around the edges.

Oliver & Boyd, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. This book pays tribute to the Author's patience, photographic skill and ornithological knowledge. It has a text full of interest which consists of a general description of each species and the sanctuary where it was photographed. Small amount of foxing inside. The Jacket has a small tear on the front.

London: Collins, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The Sea Shore forms a natural laboratory for the student, because here he can obtain the best possible introduction to a general knowledge of animals and plants. There is a pen inscription on the inside cover.

Houghton Mifflin Company , 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. This book is an introduction to the Natural History of the Sea-birds of the North Atlantic. Slight foxing inside and the cover a little stained along the front top edge.

Christopher Helm, 1987-01-01. 1st Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8x5x0. A photographic guide offers a unique and exciting collection of over 740 seabird photographs, selected from over 60,000 colour slides contributed by more than 300 photographers and researchers. This book comes rom the collection of David Pitman who was once in the top 10 for his world list of species.

Smithsonian Press, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. This book has been written to fill the needs of fisherman, oceanographers and travellers who want to know some of the seabirds they may encounter while aboard ship.There is some foxing on the inside of the cover.

Hamlyn, 1980-01-01. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x0. This book begins with an introduction to the various seabird families: the penguin family;the albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels;the pelican family, including gannets, boobies,frigatebirds, tropicbirds and cormorants;gulls,skuas, terns and auks.The Jacket has been price clipped.

Cassell and Company Ltd, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Each Autumn a great army of sea-gulls descend on London, and remain throughout the Winter.They are welcomed and fed this book tells their story. There is a pen inscription on the first page and the cover is a little faded around the edges.

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. This book tries to give you an understanding on Bringing up a Seal, life on land and water, folklore and legend seal watching, wild cats and other animals.

London: adprint, 1960. Hardcover. Good/Good. In this second volume the book has drawn on the immense variety that nature offers.In this book are corncrakes and coral, hedgehogs and ladybirds, squids and bats and elephants and many more.It also discovers a new world under the ocean and tempts bird-watchers to become fish-watchers.The Jacket is a little worn and has been price clipped.

Lyons & Burford, 1994-05-01. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x0. William Burt writes an account of his years spent in pursuit of photographs of rails-tiny, elusive marsh birds that are nearly impossible to find, let alone photograph. The book is more than the story of a single-minded search for birds. Indeed it is the tale of the age-old human quest for things elusive, mysterious, unattainable-a story as old as the Holy Grail and as current as our own dreams.

Michael Joseph, 1987-08-01. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 5x0x8. In this book 144 specially commissioned plated illustrate over 1800 birds of 488 species and more than 100,000 words on text tell you how to identify species with notes on behaviour, breeding and seasonal movements. There is a sticker on the back. This book comes from the collection of David Pitman who was once in the top 10 for his world list of species seen.

London: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Joan Kiddell-Monroe. This book looks at Sher the Indian Tiger who is the hero of this vivid and authentic story of wild life in the foothills of the Himalayas. The young reader will also be introduced to many other animals. The Jacket has been price clipped and is a little worn on the edges.