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Jamspangle

Up the boro!

• May 8, 2009

• #1

Similar question to Irene's but regarding swifts. anyone know if such a book exists?

 

Andrew Whitehouse

Professor of Listening

Supporter

• May 8, 2009

• #2

Maybe this one, although I've not read it myself:
http://www.nhbs.com/title.php?tefno=121792

 

chris butterworth

aka The Person Named Above

• May 8, 2009

• #3

Pica Press do a monograph on the worlds Swifts. Can't remember the author/s off hand though.
Chris

 

Richard Klim

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• May 8, 2009

• #4

chris butterworth said:

Pica Press do a monograph on the worlds Swifts. Can't remember the author/s off hand though.

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Chantler & Driessens 2000. Swifts - A Guide to the Swifts and Treeswifts of the World. 2nd Edition. 272pp. 24 colour plates. Pica Press.

(Available via AbeBooks or Amazon UK.)

Richard

 

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Andrew R

Well-known member

• May 9, 2009

• #5

David Lacks Swifts in a tower covers the common Swift its out of print but should be available at abe books

 

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Bubbs

Well-known member

• May 9, 2009

• #6

Richard Klim said:

Chantler & Driessens 2000. Swifts - A Guide to the Swifts and Treeswifts of the World. 2nd Edition. 272pp. 24 colour plates. Pica Press.

(Available via AbeBooks or Amazon UK.)

Richard

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On Amazon at £18.93 which is an OK price. Excellent book.

 

Jamspangle

Up the boro!

• May 12, 2009

• #7

Thanks for those - i'll have a look and let you all know what i go for. i'm really after a book on the Apus apus, just cos they fascinate me yet i realise how little i know about them.
any further ideas in the meantime?

 

Gill Osborne

Well-known member

• May 19, 2009

• #8

Devil Birds by Derek Bromhall is a good book about swifts :t: I've got a copy and read it from cover to cover and learnt a lot. Twelve copies on Abe today :king:

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/S...bt.x=58&bt.y=22&sortby=3&sts=t&tn=devil+birds


I also used to have a copy of Swifts In The Tower but lent it out to someone (can't remember who now!) and never got it back. VERY hard to find nowadays and extortionate amounts being asked for it....one I saw a few weeks ago was £250 :eek!::eek!::eek!: So if anyone has a copy then guard it with your life!!!

 

Bird-Nut

Well-known member

• May 19, 2009

• #9

I remember reading "Swifts In A Tower" from my local library years ago, it was one of the most interesting monographs I've read. Try this link from Oxford University Museum of Natural History http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/news/swifts/swiftsld.htm where they sell a book called "The Museum Swifts" which is a revised update according to their web site.