Description and condition:

Laminated pictorial hardback, matching dustcover, 8vo, 288pp, index, colour and b/w illustrations, distribution maps and bibliography.

Good copy, front hinge has been re-enforced with binders tape, nice bright clean apges. In very good, protected, dustcover.

Contents:

With a foreword by Roger Tory Peterson and paintings by Robert Gilmor and Peter Hayman. This new book on herons and bitterns is an authoritative summary of what is currently known about this diverse and fascinating world-wide family of wading birds. It is the result of extensive studies carried out over many years by its distinguished authors on both sides o the Atlantic. The plumages, feeding and breeding behaviour, and ecology of each of the recognised 60 species are discussed, and every species is illustrated in full colour with meticulously researched paintings. A distribution map, based on the latest available information, also shows the range of each species. 4 identification plates, especially prepared by Gillmor, show all the plumages in each phase of every species and race, of white herons and egrets.