THE NORTH AMERICAN BIRD WATCHING
COLLECTION
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A stunning and truly unique
collection of over 250 rare, out-of-print books and vintage periodicals
compiled together for the first time on one USB flash drive covering all aspects of NORTH AMERICAN
BIRDS & ORNITHOLOGY.
Read about the natural
history of North American birds, both indigenous and migratory. Learn about
their nesting habits and eggs as well as the distribution and history of North America’s rarer species. Study the essential
characteristics of the orders, families, genera, and species that inhabit all
parts of America & Canada.
Containing a wealth of information on North American ornithology and oology,
this huge collection is the ultimate library for any naturalist or bird watcher.
Alongside the books, guides and manuals are more than 50 fascinating volumes of
vintage American bird periodicals such as “The
Wilson Bulletin” and “Pacific Coast
Avifauna” produced by the Cooper Ornithological Club and the Agassiz
Association & Wilson Ornithological Society amongst others. Overall, this
is an absolute must for anyone with an interest in North American 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 massive compilation of
258 vintage books, guides and 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:
A
bibliography of scarce or out of print North American amateur and trade
periodicals devoted more or less to ornithology by F. L. Burns (1915)
A catalogue
of Canadian birds, with notes on the distribution of the species by M. Chamberlain
(1887)
A catalogue
of the birds of Indiana
by A. W. Butler (1891)
A catalogue
of the birds of Indiana,
with keys and descriptions of the groups of greatest interest to the
horticulturist by A. W. Brayton (1879)
A catalogue
of the birds of Kansas
by N. S. Goss (1883)
A check list
of North American birds by E. Coues (1879)
A field
ornithology of the birds of eastern North America
by C. J. Maynard (1916)
A
geographical and comparative list of the birds of Europe and North
America by C. L. Bonaparte (1838)
A guide to
the birds of the Pacific coast by C. A. Stebbins (1910)
A history of
North American birds - revised edition Vols. 1 - 3 by S. F. Baird (1905)
A history of
North American birds Vols. 1 - 3 by S. F. Baird (1875)
A history of
the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states by E. H.
Forbush (1912)
A manual of
North American birds by R. Ridgway (1887)
A popular
handbook of the birds of the United States
and Canada
by T. Nuttall (1905)
A popular
handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America
Vols. 1 & 2 by T. Nuttall - revised edition (1896)
A popular
handbook of the ornithology of the United States
and Canada
(1891)
A preliminary
list of the birds found in Vermont
by G. H. Perkins (1901)
A preliminary
review of the birds of Nebraska
by L. Bruner (1898)
A review of
the birds of Connecticut
by C. H. Merriam (1877)
A revised
catalogue of the birds of Kansas.
With descriptive notes of the nests and eggs of the birds known to breed in the
state by N. S. Goss (1886)
A supplement
to The birds of Rhode Island
by R. H. Howe (1903)
A year with
the birds by W. Flagg (1889)
Alaskan
bird-life as depicted by many writers by E. Ingersoll (1914)
American
birds, studied and photographed from life by W. L. Finley (1907)
American bob
whites and quails by R. W. Shufeldt (1914)
American
ornithology for the home and school Vols. 1 - 6 by C. A. Reed (1901 – 1906)
American
ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States Vols. 1 - 3 by A.
Wilson (1878)
Among the
water-fowl - observation, adventure, photography by H. K. Job (1902)
An egg check
list of North American birds by O. Davie (1885)
Annual report
(Vols. 1-9, 1911 - 1919) - New Jersey
Audubon Society
Bird
biographies by A. E. Ball (1923)
Bird friends,
a complete bird book for Americans by G. H. Trafton (1916)
Bird
guide...east of the Rockies Vols. 1 - 2 by C.
A. Reed (1910)
Bird guide -
land birds east of the Rockies from parrots to
bluebirds by C. A. Reed (1916)
Bird homes.
The nests, eggs and breeding habits of the land birds breeding in the eastern United States
by A. R. Dugmore (1900)
Bird life
stories, comp. from the writings of Audubon, Bendire, Nuttall, and Wilson by C.
M. Weed (1904)
Bird
neighbors - an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds
commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes by N.
Blanchan (1922)
Bird notes
afield; essays on the birds of the Pacific coast with a field check list by C.
A. Keeler (1907)
Bird
observations near Chicago
by E. D. Farwell (1919)
Bird studies
with a camera - with introductory chapters on the outfit and methods of the
bird photographer by F. M. Chapman (1900)
Bird studies;
an account of the land birds of eastern North America
by W. E. D. Scott (1898)
Birdcraft; a
field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds by M. Wright (1895)
Bird-life; a
guide to the study of our common birds by F. M. Chapman (1898)
Bird-nesting
in north-west Canada
by W. Raine (1892)
Birds - their
photographs and home life by A. H. Cordier (1923)
Birds and
nature in natural colors - being a scientific and popular treatise on four
hundred birds of the United States
and Canada
Vols. 1 - 5 (1913)
Birds by S.
F. Baird (1858)
Birds in
their relation to man by C. M. Weed (1916)
Birds of America
Vols. 1 - 3 by T. G. Pearson (1923)
Birds of California - an introduction to more than three hundred
common birds of the state and adjacent islands by I.
G. Wheelock (1912)
Birds of
eastern Canada
by P. A. Taverner (1919)
Birds of
field, forest and park by A. F. Gilmore (1919)
Birds of Kansas by B. F. Eyer
(1900)
Birds of
lakeside and prairie by E. B. Clarke (1901)
Birds of Michigan by A. J. Cook
(1893)
Birds of New York Vols. 1 & 2
by E. H. Eaton (1914)
Birds of South Dakota by W. H.
Over (1920)
Birds of
Swope park in the heart of America,
Kansas City, Mo. by A. E. Shirling (1920)
Birds of the Colorado valley ...
scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology by E.
Coues (1878)
Birds of the Kansas City region by H.
Harris (1919)
Birds of the
Northwest - a hand-book of the ornithology of the region drained by the Missouri River and its tributaries by E. Coues (1874)
Birds of the
Pacific coast by W. A. Eliot (1923)
Birds of the United States east of the Rocky
Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or
in the bush by A. C. Apgar (1898)
Birds of Washington and vicinity
by L. W. Maynard (1902)
Birds that
hunt and are hunted life histories of
one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls by N.
Blanchan (1904)
By-ways and
bird notes by M. Thompson (1885)
Camps and
cruises of an ornithologist by F. M. Chapman (1908)
Cassinia Vols.
5 - 12 - Delaware
Valley Ornithological
Club (1901 – 1908)
Catalogue of
Canadian birds by J. Macoun (1900)
Check list of
New York
birds by M. S. Farr (1900)
Check-list of
North American birds - according to the canons of nomenclature of the American
Ornithologists' Union (1889)
Check-list of
North American birds by The American Ornithologists' Union
(1895)
Check-list of
North American birds by The American Ornithologists' Union
(1910)
Check-list of
North American birds by The American Ornithologists' Union
(1921)
Color key to
North American birds by F. M. Chapman (1903)
Color key to
North American birds, with bibliographical appendix by F. M. Chapman (1912)
Die
Nord-Amerikanische Vogelwelt (Volume Heft 1-10) von H. Nehrling (1889)
Directory to
the birds of eastern North America,
illustrated with many wood cuts and ... plates drawn and engraved by the author
by C. J. Maynard (1907)
Distribution
and Migration of North American Ducks, Geese, and Swans by W. C. Wells (1906)
Distribution
and Migration of North American Shorebirds by W. W. Cooke (1910)
Exotic
ornithology - containing figures and descriptions of new or rare species of
American birds by P. L. Sclater (1869)
Feathered
game of the Northeast by W. H. Rich (1907)
Field book of
wild birds and their music by F. S. Mathews (1921)
Field
ornithology. Comprising a manual of instruction for procuring, preparing and
preserving birds, and a check list of North American birds by E. Coues (1874)
Florida and the game
water-birds of the Atlantic coast and the lakes of the United States by R. B. Roosevelt
(1884)
Game birds of
America
by E. H. Forbush (1913)
Handbook of
birds of eastern North America by F. M.
Chapman (1896)
Handbook of
birds of eastern North America, with keys to the species, and descriptions of
their plumages, nests, and eggs, their distribution and migrations by F. M.
Chapman (1895)
Handbook of
birds of eastern North America; with
introductory chapters on the study of birds in nature by F. M. Chapman (1912)
History of
the birds of Kansas
by N. S. Goss (1891)
Homing with
the birds; the history of a lifetime of personal experience with the birds by
B. Stratton-Porter (1919)
How to know
one hundred wild birds of Wisconsin
and the Northwest by D. Lange (1904)
How to know
the ducks, geese and swans of North America, all the species being grouped
according to size and color by C. B. Cory (1897)
How to know
the shore birds of North America - all the species being grouped according to
size and color by C. B. Cory (1897)
Illustrations
of the American ornithology of A. Wilson and C. L. Bonaparte (1835)
Illustrations
of the birds of California, Texas,
Oregon, British and Russian America by J. Cassin (1862)
Illustrations
of the nests and eggs of birds of Ohio
Vols. 1 & 2 by H. Jones (1886)
Key to North
American birds Vols. 1 & 2 by E. Coues (1890)
Land birds of
northern New York - a pocket guide to common land birds of the St. Lawrence
Valley and the lowlands in general of northern New York by E. J. Sawyer (1916)
Land birds of
the Pacific district by L. Belding (1890)
Life
histories of North American birds with special reference to their breeding
habits and eggs, with twelve lithographic plates by C. Bendire (1892)
Life
histories of North American diving birds by A. C. Bent (1919)
Life
histories of North American gulls and terns by A. C. Bent (1921)
Life
histories of North American petrels and pelicans and their allies; order
Tubinares and order Steganopodes by A. C. Bent (1922)
Life
histories of North American wild fowl by A. C. Bent (1923)
List of birds
found in the vicinity of Bridgeport,
Connecticut by C. K. Averill
(1892)
List of birds
found in West Virginia
by E. A. Brooks (1909)
Nests and
eggs of North American birds by O. Davie (1900)
New England
bird life being a manual of New England
ornithology Vols. 1 & 2 by W. A. Stearns (1881)
North
American birds eggs by C. A. Reed (1904)
North
American oölogy by T. M. Brewer (1857)
North
American shore birds by D. G. Elliott (1895)
Notes on Rhode Island ornithology
Vol. 1 by R. H. Howe (1900)
Notes on Rhode Island ornithology
Vol. 2 by R. H. Howe (1901)
Notes on Rhode Island ornithology
Vol. 3 by R. H. Howe (1902)
Ornithology
and oology of New England - containing full descriptions of the birds of New
England, and adjoining states and provinces by E. A. Samuels (1867)
Ornithology
by J. G. Cooper (1870)
Ornithology
of the United States of North America by J. K. Townsend (1839)
Our birds in
their haunts - a popular treatise on the birds of Eastern
North America by J. H. Langille (1884)
Our birds of
prey; or The eagles, hawks, and owls of Canada. With 30 photographic illus
by H. G. Vennor (1876)
Our common birds
and how to know them by J. B. Grant (1895)
Our native
birds of song and beauty Vols. 1 & 2 by H. Nerhling (1893)
Our native
birds; how to protect them and attract them to our homes by D. Lange (1915)
Our northern
and eastern birds - containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and
eastern states and British provinces by E. A. Samuels (1883)
Our own
birds; a familiar natural history of the birds of the United States by W. L. Baily (1879)
Our winter
birds, how to know and how to attract them by F. M. Chapman (1918)
Pacific coast
avifauna (Volume no. 1-6, 1900-09) - Cooper Ornithological Club
Pacific coast
avifauna (Volume no. 7-10, 1912-14) - Cooper Ornithological Club
Pacific coast
avifauna (Volume no. 11-13, 1915-19) - Cooper Ornithological Club
Pacific coast
avifauna (Volume no. 14, 1921) - Cooper Ornithological Club
Pacific coast
avifauna (Volume no. 15, 1923) - Cooper Ornithological Club
Proceedings
of the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union (Volume
1-3, 1899-1902) - Nebraska Ornithologists' Union
Proceedings
of the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union (Volume
4-6, 1908-1915) - Nebraska Ornithologists' Union
Propagation
of wild birds; a manual of applied ornithology by H. K. Job (1915)
Review of
American birds, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution by S. F. Baird
(1864)
Stories of
our western birds by E. Grinnell (1903)
Supplement to
the birds of Essex County, Massachusetts by C. W. Townsend (1920)
Teachers'
manual of bird-life - a guide to the study of our common birds by F. M. Chapman
(1899)
The American
grouse and their identification by R. W. Shufeldt (1912)
The American
sportsman - containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of
the game birds, and wild fowl of America by E. J. Lewis (1855)
The bird book
- illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds,
also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs by C. A. Reed (1914)
The birds
about us by C. C. Abbott (1894)
The birds of Albany County
by W. W. Judd (1907)
The birds of America - from drawings made in the United States
and their territories Vols. 1 - 7 by J. J. Audubon (1840)
The birds of Amherst and vicinity, including nearly the whole of
Hampshire county, Massachusetts
by H. L. Clark (1906)
The birds of Connecticut by J. H.
Sage (1913)
The birds of
east Pennsylvania and New Jersey by W. P. Turnbull (1869)
The birds of
eastern North America by C. J. Maynard (1881)
The birds of
eastern North America known to occur east of
the nineteenth meridian Vols. 1 & 2 by C. B. Cory (1899)
The birds of
eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with introductory chapters on
geographical distribution and migration by W. Stone (1894)
The birds of Essex County, Massachusetts
by C. W. Townsend (1905)
The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin
by C. B. Cory (1909)
The birds of Indiana; a descriptive
catalog of the birds that have been observed within the state, with an account
of their habits by A. W. Butler (1898)
The birds of Long Island by J. P. Giraud (1844)
The birds of Massachusetts by R. H.
Howe (1901)
The birds of Montreal by E. D. Wintle
(1896)
The birds of New England and adjacent states by E. A. Samuels (1870)
The birds of New Jersey by C. A.
Shriner (1896)
The birds of New Jersey by W. Stone
(1909)
The birds of
North America - 119 artistic colored plates representing the different species
and varieties, drawn and colored from nature by J. H. Studer (1895)
The birds of
North and Middle America Vols. 1 – 3, 5 - 10
by R. Ridgway (1901)
The birds of Rhode Island by R. H.
Howe (1899)
The birds of Somerset hills by J. D.
Kuser (1912)
The birds of
the Cambridge region of Massachusetts by W. Brewster (1906)
The birds of
the Chicago
area by F. M. Woodruff (1907)
The birds of
the Connecticut valley in Massachusetts by W. W. Colburn (1891)
The birds of Virginia by H. H. Bailey
(1913)
The book of
birds; common birds of town and country and American game birds by H. W.
Henshaw (1921)
The Canadian
bird book by C. A. Reed (1914)
The code of
nomenclature and check-list of North American birds adopted by the American
Ornithologists' Union (1886)
The Coues
check list of North American birds by E. Coues (1882)
The
gallinaceous game birds of North America,
including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys by D. G. Elliot
(1897)
The game
birds of North America; a descriptive
checklist by F. A. Bates (1896)
The game
birds of the coasts and lakes of the northern states of America by R. B. Roosevelt (1866)
The habitat
groups of North American birds in the American Museum
of Natural History by F. M. Chapman (1909)
The
land-birds and game-birds of New England; with
descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes by H.
D. Minot (1877)
The
ornithology of Chester County,
Pennsylvania by F. L. Burns
(1919)
The
ornithology of Illinois
Vol. 1 Pt. 1 by R. Ridgway (1889)
The ornithology of Illinois Vol. 2 Pt. 1 by R. Ridgway (1889)
The sequence
of plumages and moults of the passerine birds of New York by J. Dwight (1900)
The warblers
of North America by F. M. Chapman (1907)
The water
birds of North America Vols. 1 & 2 by S.
F. Baird (1884)
The way to
study birds by J. D. Kuser (1917)
The wild fowl
of the United States and
British possessions, or, The swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America by D. G. Elliot (1898)
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 4, 1892) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 6, 1894) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 7-8, 1895-1896) - Agassiz Association. Wilson Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 9, 1897) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 10, 1898) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 11, 1899) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 12, 1900) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 13, 1901) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 14, 1902) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 15, 1903) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 16, 1904) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 17, 1905) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 18, 1906) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 19, 1907) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 20, 1908) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 21, 1909) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 22, 1910) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 23, 1911) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 24, 1912) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 25, 1913) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 26, 1914) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 27, 1915) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 28, 1916) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 29, 1917) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 30, 1918) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 31, 1919) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 32, 1920) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
The Wilson bulletin (Volume 33, 1921) - Agassiz
Association. Wilson
Ornithological Chapter
Wake-robin by
J. Burroughs (1885)
Twelve months
with the birds and poets by S. A. Harper (1917)
Wild scenes
and song-birds by C. W. Webber (1858)
Wild wings;
adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North
America on sea and land by H. K. Job (1905)
Wilson's American
ornithology - with notes by Jardine ; to which is added a synopsis of American
birds by T. M. Brewer (1840)
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