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 for anyone with an interest in British birds, ornithology and bird watching – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!

 

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