Identification by plumage is the first and foremost technique used by the modern ornithologist. But there are so many occasions when it is just not enough. Even the best of seabird watchers need more than beak and feather detail to tell a common tern from an Arctic. When the expert birder can identify a robin at a 100 yards by the way it drops off a fence, he's always using "jizz". Artists have provided a folio of illustrations of the essential character of a bird from form and behaviour, helped by Rob Hume's written interpretations.
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Condition: Very Good. 176, col + b/w illus, distribution maps. . HB. Vg in d/w. Spine slightly faded. Covers Britain and Europe. Illustrated by Ian Wallace, Darren Rees, John Busby and Peter Partington. [9780333490532]. Seller Inventory # S63094
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FIRST EDITION,A FINE HARDBACK COPY IN A FINE DUSTWRAP. SCARCE FIELD GUIDE. ILLUSTRATED BY WALLACE, BUSBY AND OTHERS. Seller Inventory # 44947
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Ian Wallace, Daren Rees, John Busby, Peter Partington (illustrator). 1st Edition. Red covered boards show minimal shelf wear. Contents clean and firm. Dust jacket unclipped with minor shelf wear, but back fold encroaches on jacket text. An ideal guide to identification when the bird is just glimpsed. Seller Inventory # ABE-1775668470610
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Fine. First edition. Hardcover book. Cloth and pictorial dustjacket . 176pp. With colour paintings and line drawings for each species showing a wide range of natural positions, flight shapes etc as seen when birding in the field, rather than the static poses in many identification guides. Excellent artists of course. Designed to be carried in the field. Fine in near Fine dustjacket. some yellowing of the white of jacket. No inscriptions and not price clipped. Pictures available. Seller Inventory # 36863
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1990 First edition, 176pp. Numerous Colour and Black and White illustrations. 11.5 x 21.5 cm approx. Red cloth binding. Pictorial Dust Jacket. Condition notes : Slight bumping to head of spine. Dust Jacket has shelf wear with a few small marks and minor creasing to rear lower edge. Otherwise a very good, clean and tight copy. Seller Inventory # 860