Andrew Silcocks (8 results)

Pictorial Card. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Light general wear to boards. A tiny tear to fore-edge of 24 pages. Otherwise internally very clean. Binding good. 828pp Size: 220mm x 315mm. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st edition. 1st edition, 2003. A Near Fine copy. 4to., 824 pp., bound in publishers glossy illustrated paper covered boards. Minor signs of shelf wear only. Text appears unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near fine condition in pictorial laminated boards. Black and white drawings and maps. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 824 pages. 4000 distribution maps for over 650 bird species including seasonal changes and breeding range. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

Laminated Boards. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good With A Small Bump On The Bottom Rear Corner Pp 824 Index Illustrated Throughout . This Is A Heavy Book At 2.91 Kilos Unpacked And Extra Postage Will Be Requested.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hawthorn East, Birds Australia (Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union), 2003. Folio, [viii], 824 pages with many hundreds of line illustrations and '4,000 distribution maps for over 650 bird species' (many printed with additional colour). Colour-pictorial papered boards; a fine copy.

1st edition laminated boards Very nice copy folio 824pp., text ills., maps, appends., references, index, Important work.

First edition. Large quarto hardcover; illustrated boards; 824pp., monochrome illustrations, distribution maps in black and red; appendices (5). Minor wear only; one or two very faint marks on side edges; small bump on head of spine. No dustwrapper as issued. Near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. The idea of an Australian bird atlas based on data collected by volunteer observers (atlassers) was first mooted in 1972. Because of the daunting scale of the task, however, to test feasibility, a pilot atlas was carried out on the southern coast of New South Wales from March 1973 to September 1974 with 168 volunteers covering an area of 13,600 square kilometres. Some 20 years after the commencement of fieldwork for the first Atlas, in 1997, Birds Australia began negotiations with Environment Australia towards obtaining funding for a new atlas project. In 1998, a grant from the Natural Heritage Trust's Bushcare and Wetlands programs was approved. Fieldwork began in August 1998 and has continued since, though after about four years there was a funding cut-off as well as a deadline for book publication purposes late in 2002. Methodology was based on that of the first Atlas but improved by the use of GPS receivers and scannable survey sheets. During the four-year period over 7,000 atlassers completed 279,000 surveys, producing 4.7 million records of 772 bird species. Coverage was greater than the first Atlas since, as well as the Australian continent and major islands, the second Atlas included records from Australia's territorial waters and the external territories of Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island. As with the first Atlas, the results have been published as "The New Atlas of Australian Birds".