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50birds Resources: Books, Authors, Illustrators, Photographers, Ornithologists

Century old wildlife art by the preeminent artists of their day make excellent gifts, become family heirlooms and increase in value overtime. You may agree that birds and other wildlife depicted in their natural habitats, engaged in each particular species' common activities, meticulously illustrated by artist-naturalists are best for identification and for just plain enjoyment. Antiquarian Natural History Books are abundant and still widely available at reasonable prices.

Web Resources

USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Distribution Maps: Sauer, J. R., J. E. Hines, I. Thomas, J. Fallon, and G. Gough. 1999. The North American Breeding Bird Survey Results and Analysis 1966 - 1998. Version 98.1
, Laurel, MD

Canadian Wildlife Service,
Environment Canada

The Raptor Center
University of Minnesota

Oaklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation

The Owls of North Dakota, ND Game and Fish Department, Bismarck, ND. Jamestown, ND Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

Alaskan Department of Fish and Game

Alberta Fish and Wildlife

Eskimo Curlew, A Vanishing Species
by J.B. Gollop, T.W. Barry, and E.H. Iversen, 1986 published by Nature Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Natural History Society
Room 206, 1860 Lorne St.
Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 2L7

Laws, Regulations, Treaties

U.S. Code, Title 16 Conservation, Chapter 7 - Protection of Migratory Game and Insectivorous Birds, U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Laws, Regulations, & Policy

Canadian Migratory Birds Convention Act

Species

Black-capped Chickadee 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Carolina Chickadee 1,2,4,6,12
Mountain Chickadee 1, 10,15,17
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 1,15,17
Boreal Chickadee 1,2,4,7,12,15,17
Tufted Titmouse 1,3,4,5,6,7
Plain Titmouse 1,10,17
White-breasted Nuthatch 1,3,5,7,12
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1,3,5,7,12
Brown-headed Nuthatch 1,12
Pygmy Nuthatch 1,
House Wren 1,3,7,12
Carolina Wren 1,3,7,12
Bewick's Wren 1,7,12
Winter Wren 1,3,7,12
Brown Creeper 1,2,3,4,6,7,12,17
Western Bluebird 1,10,17
Eastern Bluebird 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,12
Mountain Bluebird 1,10,17
Prothonotary Warbler 1,2,6,10
House Finch 1,10, 11
Song Sparrow 1,2,3,4,5,6,18
Wood Duck 1,6,7,10,11,12
Common Goldeneye 1,6,7,11,12
Barrow's Goldeneye 1,6,7,11,12
Common Merganser 1,5,6,7,11,12
Hooded Merganser 1,5,6,7,11,12
Bufflehead 1,6,7,11,12
American Kestrel 1,2,5,6,7,10,11
Red-tailed Hawk 1,5,6,7,11
Osprey 1,2, 5,6,7,10,11
Boreal Owl 10,13,17
Western Screech-owl 1,4,10,17
Eastern Screech-owl 1,2,4,5,6,7,10,11
Common Barn Owl 1,2,5,6,7,11
Barred Owl 2,5,6,7,11,12
Northern Saw-whet Owl 1,2,6,7,10,11,12
Great Horned Owl 1,2,4,6,7,11
Hawk Owl 1,6,11,12
Pygmy Owl 1,10,17
Snow Bunting 6,7,8,12,16
Siberian Tit 1, 16,17
Blue Jay 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,12
Catbird 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,12,17,18
Brown Thrasher 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,12,17,18
House Sparrow 1,5,6,8,12
European Starling
Pigeon
Grackle 1,2,3,4,5,67,8,12,17
Downy Woodpecker 1,2,3,5,7,12
Red-headed Woodpecker 1,2,3,5,6,7,12
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1,3,5,7,12
Lewis' Woodpecker 1, 17
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 1,17
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1,2,6,7,12
Hairy Woodpecker 1,2,3, 5,6,7,12
Pileated Woodpecker 1,2,6,7,12
Flicker 1,2,5,6,7,12
Ash-throated Flycatcher 1,10,17
Great Crested Flycatcher 1,2,3,5,6,7,12,17
American Robin 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,12
Mourning Dove 1,2,3,5,6,7,11,12
Eastern Phoebe 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,12,17
Black Phoebe 1,10,17
Say's Phoebe 1,6,12,17
Barn Swallow 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,12
Cliff Swallow 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,12
Tree Swallow 1,2,5,6,7,8.12
Violet-green Swallow 1,10
Purple Martin 1,2,5,6,7,8,12

	Species Resources
1	Nests and Eggs of North American Birds, Fifth Edition, Oliver Davie, 1898
2	Bird Homes, Radclyffe Dugmore, 1904
3	Bird Neighbors, Neltje Blanchan, 1908, cr 1904
4	Field Book of Wild Birds and their Music, F. Schuyler Mathews, 1921
5	Birds Every Child Should Know, Neltje Blanchan, 1907
6	Birds of Eastern North America, Frank M Chapman, 1896
7	Birds of Eastern Canada, P. A. Taverner, 1922
8	Michigan Bird Life, Walter Bradford Barrows, S. B., Michigan Ag College, 1912,
9	The Structure and Life of Birds, F. W Headley, 1895
10	Gregory Gough, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center web site
11	Game Birds, Birds that Hunt and are Hunted, Neltje Blanchan, 1905
12	Birds of the United States and Canada, Thomas Nuttall, 1903
13	Raptor Center, University of Minnesota
14	The Owls of North Dakota web site, State Game and Fish Department
15	Alaskan Department of Fish and Game
16	Alberta Fish and Game - dimensions
17	Key to North American Birds, Elliott Coues, 5^th Edition, The Page Co. Publishers, 1872, 74,82,84, cr 82,84,87,03
18	Bird Friends, Gilbert H. Trafton, 1916, Houghton Mifflin Co., cr 1916

File names 50birds art include initials of artists and authors matched with books listed below. Illustration file names can be viewed by right clicking graphics and selecting "save picture as" or "save image as". The file name of the graphic will appear with an abbreviation corresponding to an author, illustrator, photographer, or book. Press "CTL-F" when viewing this page and enter the abbreviation to find the author or artist of the work.

"The Book of Birds", by Gilbert Grosvenor, 1932, contains 950 natural and lifelike color portraits of all major North American bird species by Allan Brooks, a preeminent zoological illustrator of his time (Illustrations from "The Book of Birds" are protected by copyright and are not displayed).

Others are Louis Agassiz Fuertes, R. Bruce Horsfall, Rex Brasher, Chester A. Reed, Earnest Seton-Thompson, John L. Ridgeway, Edmund J. Sawyer and Frank C. Hennessey. They, other illustrators and photographers are listed below along with the books and authors they are associated with.

Books, Authors, Illustrators, Photographers

Hnh Handy Natural History

Ep Ernest Protheroe, Religious Tract Society, 1909

Ap Animals of the Past, Frederic A. Lucas, American Museum of Natural History, 1922

Crk Charles R. Knight

Jmg J. M. Gleeson

Ebs Miss E. B. Seeley

Ea Extinct Animals,

Erl E. Ray Lankester, Henry Holt and Co., 1905

Em Extinct Monsters, H.N. Hutchinson, 1917

Wpp W. P. Pycraft

Jg J. Green

Js Joseph Smit

Wrpp Water Reptiles of the Past and Present,

Sww Samuel Wendell Williston

Ovwl Our Vanishing Wildlife, William T. Hornaday, Clark & Fritts, 1913

Wuy The Wilderness of the Upper Yukon, Charles Sheldon, 1919

Nnh The New Natural History,J. Arthur Thomson, 1926

Mosa Men of the Old Stone Age, Henry Fairfield Osborne,1916

Crk Charles R. Knight

Esc Erwin S. Christman

Dota Dragons of the Air, H. G. Seeley, 1901

Ebs Miss E. B. Seeley

Aotwyp Animals of the World for Young People,

Crk Charles R. Knight, 1908

Wal The World of Animal Life, Fred Smith, Barse & Hopkins, ?

Lfm Louis Fairfax Muckley

Hnh Handy Natural History, Ernest Protheroe, Religious Tract Society, 1909

Lbb Rare, Vanishing and Lost British Birds

Hg Henrick Gronvold

Laow Living Animals of the World

oa Ottomar Anschutz

Anh The American Natural History, William T. Hornaday, 1904

S Sanborn

Wls WL Steward

Cr Carl Rungius

Pnhs Popular Natural History, Henry Scherren,1907

Hs Henry Scherren, Cassell and Co., 1907

Apnh Animals, A Popular Natural History, Wallace Rice, Herbert S. Stone Co., 1901

Awm A. W. Mumford

eah Ellen A. Holmes

fmw Frank M Woodruff

cpnh Cassells Popular Natural History,Cassell, Petter, Galpin, La Belle Sauvage Yard, Ludgate Hill, Londong & NY

pnh Popular Natural History

jgw Rev. J.G. Wood, Porter & Coates, 1885, Illustrated by Wolf, Zwecker, Weir, Coleman

pnh Popular Natural History, J.G. Wood, 1885, Illustrated by Wolf, Zwecker, Weir, Coleman

sooc The Story of Our Continent

nss N.S. Shaler, Ginn & Co. 1899

csw Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum

jeg John Edward Gray, 1866

nab North American Birds, Baird, Brewer, Ridgway

els Edwin L. Sheppard

tblm Two Bird Lovers in Mexico

cwb c. William Beebe

bbb The British Bird Book

elt E. L. Turner

eaw E. A. Wallis

rbl R. B. Lodge

rf Riley Fortune

nnl The New Nature Library,

v8 American. Food and Game Fishes, David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann, 1902, Doubleday, Page, Co. 1916

cbh C. B. Hudson,

ahb A.H. Baldwin

usnm Bulletin 47 U.S. National Museum text drawings

fnma Fishes of North and Middle America Evermann, Barton Warren, 1887-1901. An extensive amount of correspondence concerns Evermann's monograph, "Fishes of North and Middle America," co-authored with David Starr Jordan. (U. S. N. M. Bulletin #47, 4 vols., 1896-1900).

Aa American Animals, Witmer Stone & William Everett Cram, 1916, Doubleday, Page & Company

Ard A. Radclyffe Dugmore

Nll Nature Lovers Library

Mol Mammals of Other Lands, 1917, Hoolock Gibbon hylobates hoolock, Netting Hill

Nh Netting Hill

Pl Percy Leigh

Lm L. Medland

oa Ottomar Anschutz

gww G. W. Wilson

Books, Authors, Illustrators, Photographers

mbl Michigan Bird Life

tlh Thomas L. Hankinson

ecj Edmund C. Jaeger, Denizens of the Dezert, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1922

Boa Birds of America, The University Society, 1917

Sal S.A. Lottridge

Cmo C.M. Oswalt,

Htm H.T. Middleton

Gnl G.N. Leek

Hkj H.K. Job

Amnh American Museum of Natural History

Tjp T.J. Pearson

oeb O.E. Baynard

aaa A. Allen,

wlf htb W.L. Finley H.T. Bohlman

hm Herbert Mills

naas National Association of Audubon Soc.

Op Outing Publishing

Fmc F.M. Chapman

Thj T.H. Jackson

wlf htb wro W.L. Finley H.T. Bohlman, Where Rolls The Oregon

hwe H.W. Elliot, Key to North American Birds, Coues

rk Robert Kretchmer, Brehm Tierleben

wh W. Heubach, Brehm Tierleben

jg Jon Gehrts, Brehm Tierleben

cr Carl Rungius, Brehm Tierleben

rf R. Friefe

ww W. Watagin

glf Geo. L. Fordyce, The Bird Book

nws N.W. Swayne, The Bird Book

ghb Guy H. Briggs, The Bird Book

rjb R.J. Beck, The American Natural History

wlw Wild Life of the World

trc T.R. Canch, Fox Earth to Mountain Tarn, J.H. Crawford, 1907

cr Charles Reid, Fox Earth to Mountain Tarn, J.H. Crawford, 1907

wpd W. P. Danao

el E. Lander

ovwl Our Vanishing Wildlife, William T. Hornaday, Clark & Fritts, 1913

ejs Edmund J. Sawyer

moa Mammals of America

htm H.T. Middleton

usbs U.S. Biological Survey

sal S.A. Lottridge

jhf J.H. Field

wvues West VA University Experiment Station

anh American Natural History

jcb J. Carter Beard

cr Carl Rungius

law Living Animals of the World, E.R. DuMont, 1902

wfp W.F. Piggott

jtn J.T. Newman

hk Henry Kin

nbw N.B. Wishaw

vs Valentine & Sons

dls D. Le Souf

wsk W. Saville-Kent

oa Otomar Anschutx

wr Walter Roghschild

dob Duches of Bedford

mg Mr. Glenday

hn H. Noble

ss S. Sinclair

wlw Wildlife of the World, R. Lydekker

bob The Book of Birds

Rec Robert E. Coker, Book of Birds, Henry W. Henshaw, 1921, National Geographic Society

cwb Dr. C. William Beebe

hhc Howard H. Cleaves

sbs The Sport of Bird Study

jkj Herbert K. Job, The Sport of Bird Study, Herbert K. Job, 1908, Outing Publishing Company

hwb Homing with the Birds, Gene Stratton Porter, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919

Gsp Gene Stratton Porter

hkj Herbert Keightley Job, The Sport of Bird Study

Photographers

ard & rd A. R. Dugmore, Bird Homes, Radclyffe Dugmore, 1904

rhb R. H. Beebe

vm Vern Morton

cst Craig S. Thomas

cwb C.W. Beebe

wf ab William Lovell Finley, American Birds, photos by author and Herman T. Bohlman, Charles Scribner's Sons '21, cr 1907

rk Richard Kearton, Baby Birds at Home, Cassell and Company, 1912

erw E.R. Warren, potographer, Birds of Ohio, William Leon Dawson, A.M., B.D., 1903, Wheaton Publishing Co., cr 1902

awm A.W. Mumford, potographer, Birds of Ohio, William Leon Dawson, A.M., B.D., 1903, Wheaton Publishing Co., cr 1902

frg F.R. Griggs, Eagles nest taken near Sandusky, A cherished landmark, Birds of Ohio, William Leon Dawson, 1902

wld William Leon Dawson, Birds of Ohio, 1903

wdw The Birds of Washington, William Leon Dawson, Occidental Publishing, cr 1909

bf H T Bohlman and W L Finley, The Birds of Washington, William Leon Dawson, Occidental Publishing, cr 1909

db W L Dawson & John Hooper Bowles, The Birds of Washington, William Leon Dawson, Occidental Publishing, cr 1909

awa AW Anthony, The Birds of Washington, William Leon Dawson, Occidental Publishing, cr 1909

oej O.E. Jennings, Birds of Ohio, William Leon Dawson, 1903

mbl Michigan Bird Life, Walter Bradford Barrows, S. B., Michigan Ag College, 1912

ght Bird Friends, Gilbert H. Trafton, 1916, Houghton Mifflin Co., cr 1916

ljw Laurence J. Webster, Bird Friends, Gilbert H. Trafton, 1916, Houghton Mifflin Co., cr 1916

ceh C E Hamilton, Bird Friends, Gilbert H. Trafton, 1916, Houghton Mifflin Co., cr 1916

jrs J R Snow, Bird Friends, Gilbert H. Trafton, 1916, Houghton Mifflin Co., cr 1916

aaa Albert H. Pratt, Bird Friends, Gilbert H. Trafton, 1916, Houghton Mifflin Co., cr 1916

nb Bird Neighbors, Neltje Blanchan, 1904, Photographers: John Boyd, A.W. Anthony

nb2 Bird Neighbors, Neltje Blanchan, 1904, Photographers: John Boyd, A.W. Anthony

nb3 Game Birds, Birds that Hunt and are Hunted, Neltje Blanchan, 1905

tlh Thos. L. Hankinson, Michigan Bird Life, Walter Bradford Barrows, S. B., Michigan Ag College, 1912

thj Dr. Thomas H. Jackson, Michigan Bird Life, Walter Bradford Barrows, S. B., Michigan Ag College, 1912

ehb Wild Bird Guests, Ernest Harold Baynes, 1915, E.P. Dutton & Company

ers Elwin R. Sanborn, reprinted in The Importance of Bird Life courtesy NY Zoological Society, G. Inness Hartley, 1922, The Century Co

ovwl "Our Vanishing Wild Life", reprinted in The Importance of Bird Life, G. Inness Hartley, 1922, The Century Co

rm Enno Meyer "Our Vanishing Wild Life", William T. Hornaday, Scribner's, 1913

bh Bruce Horsfall, Birds of California, Irene Grosvenor Wheelock, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1903

fc2 Bird Studies with a Camera, Frank M. Chapman, 1900 D. Appleton & Co.

owtb Out With The Birds, Hamilton M. Lang, 1913, Outing Publishing Co.

botr Birds of the Rockies, Leander s. Keyser, 1902, A.C. McClurg & Co.

car Camera Studies of Wild Birds in their Homes, Chester A. Reed, 1911, Doubleday, Page & Co

hwm Western Birds, Harriet Williams Myers, The Macmillan Co., 1922

hsp Helen S. Pratt, Western Birds, Harriet Williams Myers, 1922

hsb The Human Side of Birds, Royal Dixon, cr 1917, Frederick A. Stokes Co.

Illustrators

Ch F.C. Hennessey, Birds of Eastern Canada, P. A. Taverner, 1922

Fsm Field Book of Wild Birds and their Music, F. Schuyler Mathews, 1921

ab wdw Allan Brooks, The Birds of Washington, William Leon Dawson, Occidental Publishing, cr 1909

abbwc Allan Brooks, Birds of Western Canada, P.A. Taverner, Canada Department of Mines, 1926

abbc Allan Brooks, Birds of Canada, P.A. Taverner, Canada Department of Mines, 1934

fc95 Frank M. Chapman, Birds of Eastern North America, 1895, D Appleton & Co

fc Frank M. Chapman, Bird Life, D. Appleton & Company, 1920, cr 1897, 99, 1901 Drawings by Earnest Seton-Thompson

ca3 Chester A. Reed, Illustrator, Color Key to North American Birds, Frank M. Chapman, D. Appleton & Co., 1912

carbb Chester A. Reed, The Bird Book, 1914

jlr John L. Ridgeway, Hawks and Owls of the United States, 1893

laf Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Bird Friends, Gilbert H. Trafton, 1916, Houghton Mifflin Co., cr 1916

laf ffb Louis Agassiz Fuertes Birds of Field Forest and Park, Albert Field Gilmore, 1919, The Page Co.

LAF Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Key to North American Birds, Elliott Coues, 5th Edition, The Page Co. Publishers, 1872, 74,82,84, cr 82,84,87,03

Lafw Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Handbook of Birds of the Western U.S. Florence Merriam Bailey, 1902

laf50 50 Common Birds of Farm and Orchard, Louis Agassiz Fuertes (illustrator), USDA Bulletin, Gov. Printing Office

rbh R. Bruce Horsfall, Bird Friends, Gilbert H. Trafton, 1916, Houghton Mifflin Co., cr 1916

rbh ywb R. Bruce Horsfall, A Year with the Birds, Alice E. Ball, Gibbs & Van Vleck, 1916

rbh bnc Robert Bruce Horsfal, Birds of North Carolina, 1919, T. Gilbert Pearson, C.S.Brimley & H.H.Brimley

bg Robert Bruce Horsfall, Bird Gossip, Harriette Wilbur, 1920, George W. Jacobs & Company

naas National Association of Audubon Societies, republished in Birds Worth Knowing, Neltje Blanchan, 1917, Published by Doubleday, Doran for Nelson Doubleday

ne Nests and Eggs of North American Birds, Oliver Davie, London Press, 1898

nb4 Birds Worth Knowing, Neltje Blanchan, 1917

bhbc Bruce Horsfall, Birds of California, Irene Grosvenor Wheelock, AC McClurg & Co, 1903

hwm Western Birds, Harriet Williams Myers, The Macmillan Co., 1922

hwb Handbook of Western Birds, Florence Merriam Bailey, cr1902, Boston & NY, 1914

tn Birds of the United States and Canada, Thomas Nuttall, 1903

ejs Edmund J. Sawyer, illustrator, What Bird is That?, Frank M. Chapman, D. Appleton & Co

ec Key to North American Birds, Elliott Coues, 5th Edition, The Page Co. Publishers, 1872, 74,82,84, cr 82,84,87,03

Photographers

wr Walter Raine, Nests & Eggs of North American Birds, Oliver Davie, London Press, 1898

rd2 Wild Life and the Camera, A. Radclyffe Dugmore, J.B. Lippincott Co. 1912

hgs Birds of the Water, Wood & Waste (New Zealand), H. Guthrie-Smith, Whitcome & Tombs, 1910

mcw Bird Legend and Life, Margaret Coulson Walker, The Baker &Taylor Co., 1908

hkj The Sport of Bird Study, Herbert K. Job, A.L.Burt Co., 1908

WTH The American Natural History, William T. Hornaday, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904

fek FE Kelsey, Western Birds, Harriet Williams Myers, 1922