Rare, Vanishing and Lost British Birds

Compiled from Notes by W. H. Hudson

Linda Gardiner, W. H. Hudson

• Publisher: A Thousand Fields
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781528701785
• eBook ISBN: 9781528784337
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Zoology
• Index: Biological Sciences

First published in 1923, this book deals with the various endangered and recently-extinct birds of contemporary Britain. "Rare, Vanishing and Lost British Birds" is profusely illustrated and contains interesting historical information, detailed descriptions, anecdotes, and other notable information relating to the birds treated. Highly recommended for those with an interest in ornithology. Contents include: "Pelican, Pelicanus Onocrotalus", "Crane, Grus Cinerea", "White Spoonbill, Platalea Leucorodia", "Capercaillie, Tetrao Urogallus", "Avocet, Recurvirostra Avocetta", "Great Bustard, Otis Tarda", "Black-Tailed Godwit, Limosa Belgica", "Great Auk, Alca Impennis", "Goshawk, Astur Palumbarius", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on ornithology.

INDEX

ALCONBURY Hill, Kites on, 80

Anglesey, Crane shot in, 4

Auk, Great, 28

Avocet, 15

Bickerton, W., Home Life of the Terns, 84

Birds of prey, persecution of, 35, 60, 74

Birds, wild, preservation of in Great Britain, 62

Bittern, 45

in English poetry, 110

Black-tailed Godwit, 26

Black Tern, 42

Boethius, Hector, History of Scotia, 20

British Birds, record of Montagu’s Harriers, 65

Browne, Sir Thomas, on the Crane in Britain, 3

Kite, 78

Spoonbill, 6

Bucknill, J. C., Osprey in Surrey, 74

Bustard, Great, 20

Buxton, Sir T. F., reintroduces Capercaillie, 12

Buzzard, Honey, 67

Caius, Dr., on Dotterel, 88

Cartwright’s Journal, on destruction of Great Auk, 29

Cheltenham, Goshawks nesting in, 37

Clarke, Dr. Eagle, Savi’s Warbler on Fair Isle, 41

Collectors, private, 17, 47, 65, 68, 85, 87, 95

Cordeaux, John, on Ruffs in England, 56

Coward, T. A., on the Avocet, 17

persecution of the Dotterel, 89

Cowper, poetry of, 114

Crane, Common, 3

Culver Cliff, Sea-Eagles of, 106

Dallas, E. S., on Quail in Sussex, 101

Dartford Warbler, status, 40

Dixon, C., Lost and Vanishing Birds, 40

Dotterel, 87

Drayton, Dotterel and the fowler, 88

Dresser, H. E., on Marsh Harrier, 51

Dungeness, birds of, 8, 92

Durham, Marsh Harriers nesting in, 50

Eagle, White-tailed, 106

Elvedon, reintroduction of Great Bustard at, 23

Fair Isle, Savi’s Warbler obtained on, 41

“Falcon gentil,” 34

Fish Hawk, 71

Fleming, Rev. Dr., 31

Forrest, H. E., Fauna of Shropshire, 4

France, Golden Orioles in, 98

Fulham, Spoonbills nesting in, 7

Game-preservation and destruction of birds, 35, 50, 60

Gloucestershire, Goshawks in, 37

Kite, 79

Osprey, 75

Godwit, Black-tailed, 26

Golden Oriole, 95

Goshawk, 34

Gray’s Inn Gardens, Kite’s nest, 78

Gray, R., on Goshawk in Scotland, 35

Great Auk, 28

Grieve, Symington, monog...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halt title
• Copyright
• Title
• Orinithology
• Forword
• Preface to the First Edition
• Contents
• List of Coloured Plates
• I. Pelican, Pelicanus onocrotalus
• II. Crane, Grus cinerea
• III. White Spoonbill, Platalea leucorodia
• IV. Capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus
• V. Avocet, Recurvirostra avocetta
• VI. Great Bustard, Otis tarda
• VII. Black-Tailed Godwit, Limosa belgica
• VIII. Great Auk, Alca impennis
• IX. Goshawk, Astur palumbarius
• X. Red Night-Reeler (Savi’s Warbler), Locustella luscinoides
• XI. Black Tern, Hydrochelidon nigra
• XII. Bittern, Botaurus stellaris
• XIII. Marsh Harrier, Circus œruginosus
• XIV. Ruff and Reeve, Machetes pugnax
• XV. Hen Harrier, Circus cyaneus
• XVI. Montagu’s Harrier, Circus cineraceus
• XVII. Honey Buzzard, Pernis apivorus
• XVIII. Osprey, Pandion haliaëtus
• XIX. Kite, Milvus ictinus
• XX. Roseate Tern, Sterna dougalli
• XXI. Dotterel, Endromias morinellus
• XXII. Kentish Plover, Ægialitis cantiana
• XXIII. Golden Oriole, Oriolus galbula
• XXIV. Common Quail, Coturnix communis
• XXV. White-Tailed Eagle, Haliaëtus albicilla
• Allusions in Poetry
• List of Writers
• Index