The Bee-Eaters
The Bee-Eaters

Author: C. Hilary Fry

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2010-09-30

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1408136872

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Dr Hilary Fry's study of the bee-eaters covers all 24 species of this colourful Family, which ranges from southern Europe, Africa and the Middle East to India, China, south-east Asia and Australia. A major part of the book comprises the species accounts, with complementary colour plates of 42 species and sub-species and detailed maps depicting the geography of their evolution. In addition there are chapters on the bee-eaters' evolutionary development, their food and foraging behaviour, and relationships with apiculture; of particular interest are chapters on social and reproductive life, the role of 'helpers' at the nest, and the meaning of plumage and social distinctions between the species. The author's colour plates delight the eye and accurately portray plumage and 'jizz'. They are fully supplemented by more than 100 drawings by John Busby, capturing the essence of these birds with a rare deftness and vitality.

Henry Dresser and Victorian ornithology
Henry Dresser and Victorian ornithology

Author: Henry A. McGhie

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 1526116022

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This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (1838–1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is largely based on previously unpublished archival material. Dresser travelled widely and spent time in Texas during the American Civil War. He built enormous collections of skins and eggs of birds from Europe, North America and Asia, which formed the basis of over 100 publications, including some of the finest bird books of the late nineteenth century. Dresser was a leading figure in scientific society and in the early bird conservation movement; his correspondence and diaries reveal the inner workings, motivations, personal relationships and rivalries that existed among the leading ornithologists.

Catalogue
Catalogue

Author: Walters, Frank, Firm, Booksellers, New York

Publisher:

Published: 1926

Total Pages: 908

ISBN-13:

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Sacred Ibis
Sacred Ibis

Author: Prof. W. G. Hale

Publisher: Sacristy Press

Published: 2016-06-01

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1910519138

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This book follows the adventures of Henry Baker Tristram, an explorer, priest, and founding member of the British Ornithologists' Union. In the book are over 80 colour plates and a reproduction of Charles Darwin's first letter to Tristram.