How Birds Live by Robert Burton
How Birds Live (Illustrated 1975 Natural History in Dust Jacket)
A richly illustrated popular survey of bird feeding, territory, song, nesting and migration
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: How Birds Live
- Author: Robert Burton
- Publisher: Elsevier-Phaidon, London
- Publication Date: 1975
- ISBN-10: 0729000222
- Edition Details: First published 1975. Volume 2 of the How Animals Live series.
- Binding: Publisher's green cloth hardcover with plain boards, in a pictorial dust jacket.
- Physical Format: Large, heavy quarto-style hardcover. Fully illustrated with colour photographs and paintings throughout.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Boards: The green cloth boards are clean, with square corners and an even spine. No marks or wear are visible beneath the jacket.
- Interior: The pages are clean and bright, with no foxing, markings or stains. The binding is tight.
- The Dust Jacket: Present and in very good plus condition. The pictorial jacket carries a colour photograph of a thrush feeding its chicks on the front and a golden pheasant on the back. It is clean and tidy, with no tears, and the spine is dark with no fading or fraying. The flap carries an About the Author note. It is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.
Synopsis & Historical Value
How Birds Live, by Robert Burton, was published in London by Elsevier-Phaidon in 1975 as volume 2 of the How Animals Live series. It is a popular natural-history survey written for the general reader.
The book follows the working lives of birds: instinct and learning, feeding and the shapes of bills, territories and colonies, song, courtship, nesting and migration. Colour photographs and paintings accompany the text on page after page.
It is a handsome, well-preserved copy in its original pictorial jacket, suited to natural-history readers and to collectors of illustrated ornithological books from the 1970s.
Author Profile: Robert Burton
Robert Burton, born in 1941, trained as a zoologist and became a prolific writer on natural history. He is the son of the zoologist and popular writer Maurice Burton, and he continued his father's Daily Telegraph Nature Note column. He has also written for The Garden and for the RSPB magazine Birds.
His other titles include Bird Behaviour (1985), Bird Flight, Bird Migration, Egg and the North American Birdfeeder Handbook.
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