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Please find below a selection of books on Ornithology published in India. Many of these titles are further linked to provide the complete table of contents of the books along with excerpts from the jacket/preface. If you do not find a title you are looking for in the list below, please e-mail us at vedams@vedamsbooks.com and we shall do our best to procure it. We can supply you any title published in India. All books are in hardcover unless specified pbk (for paper back edition) |
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Updated March, 2008 Birds of India : A Literary Anthology/edited by Abdul Jamil Urfi. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2008, xxviii, 386 p., figs., $36. ISBN 0-19-568945-3. Details No. 55277 |
Aviculture/Ashok Kumar. New Delhi, Discovery, 2003, 313 p., tables, figs., $32. ISBN 81-7141-730-2. Details No. 33788
Avifauna of Kanha Tiger Reserve : Madhya Pradesh/Kailash Chandra, Anil Mahabal, Rajendra Prasad Gupta and D.K. Nema. Kolkata, Zoological Survey of India, 2006, vi, 226 p., plates, tables, $30 (pbk). ISBN 81-8171-127-0. [Records of the Zoological Survey of India: Occasional Paper No. 250]. Details No. 47710
Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala, Part 11 : Birds/P.S. Easa and E.A. Jayson. Peechi, Kerala Forest Research Institute, 2004, vii, 52 p., $11 (pbk). ISBN 81-85041-55-5. Details No. 38338
Biology of Birds/D.R.
Khanna and P.R. Yadav. New
Delhi, Discovery Pub., 2005, ix, 352 p., figs., $45. ISBN
81-7141-933-X. Details No. 41621
Biology of
Indian Barbets/H.S.A. Yahya. New
Delhi, Authors Press, 2001, xxvi, 170 p., tables, figs., $25. ISBN
81-7273-60-8. Details No. 21581
Bird Flu : Health, Safety and Contingency Guidelines/edited by M.R. Reddy. New Delhi, SBS Pub., 2007, viii, 176 p., $30. ISBN 81-89741-38-1. Details No. 48035
Bird Monitoring in Terai Arc Landscape-Nepal. Kathmandu, WWF Nepal Program, 2003, ix, 43 p., figs., tables, maps, $14 (pbk) Details No. 35319
Birds : Beyond Watching/Abdul Jamil Urfi. Hyderabad, Universities Press, 2004, x, 230 p., 30 plates, figs., boxes, $17 (pbk). ISBN 81-7371-485-1. Details No. 37039
A Bird's Eye View : The Collected Essays and Shorter Writings of Salim Ali/edited by Tara Gandhi. New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2007, 2 Vols., 868 p., $70 (set). ISBN 81-7824-170-6. Details No. 48623
Birds and Mammals of Ladakh/Otto Pfister. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2004, xxviii, 362 p., $44. ISBN 019565714-4. Details No. 36484
Birds in Laboratory/M. Prakash and C.K. Arora. 1998, vii, 232 p., photos, $53. Details No. 13496
Birds in Sanskrit Literature with 107 Bird Illustrations/K.N. Dave. Reprint. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 2005, xxv, 516 p., colour plates, $65. ISBN 81-208-1842-3. Details No. 41675
Birds in Our Lives/Ashish Kothari. New Delhi, University Press, 2007, xvi, 292 p., tables, ills, $31 (pbk). ISBN 81-7371-586-6. Details No. 50699
Birds of Andaman & Nicobar Islands/B.K. Tikader. 1984, xxii, 167 p., map, col. plates, $16. Details No. 6987
Birds of Arid and Semi-Arid Tracts/Ajit Kumar Mukherjee. 1995, xvi, 303 p., col. plates, $20. Details No. 11008
The Birds of Bhutan/Salim Ali, Biswamoy Biswas and S. Dillon Ripley. Reprint. Kolkata, Zoological Survey of India, 2002, 207 p., 22 plates, $28 (pbk). ISBN 81-85874-63-8. (Occasional Paper No. 136). Details No. 29023
Birds of Delhi/Ranjit Lal. New Delhi, OUP, 2003, xii, 150 p., plates, $22. ISBN 019565969-4. Details No. 30049
Birds of Himalaya and Kashmir/Douglas Dewar. Delhi, Asiatic Pub., 2006, 200 p., $36. ISBN 81-87067-06-3. Details No. 45464
Birds of India : Including Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Pakistan and Bangladesh/text and photography by Amano Samarpan. New Delhi, Wisdom Tree, 2006, viii, 160 p., photographs, $22(pbk). ISBN 81-8328-029-3. Details No. 45113
Birds of India/Jagjit Singh. New Delhi, Books Today, 2001, 196 p., $25. ISBN 81-87478-15-2. Details No. 19873
BIRDS OF INDIA--WITH ADDITIONAL REFERENCES TO THEIR ALLIED SPECIES IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD/A. Colonel Le Messurier. Reprint of 4th edition published in Ealing in 1904. 1990, xvi, 323 p., 180 natural size illustrations, $36. Details No. 5245
Birds of Kangchenjunga Conservation Area. Kathmandu, WWF Nepal Program, 2005, viii, 82 p., ills., $42 (pbk). ISBN 33-792-4-7. Details No. 47652
Birds of Nepal : With Reference to Kashmir and Sikkim/Robert L. Fleming and Lain Singh Bangdel. Reprint. Delhi, Adarsh Books, 2000, 370 p., figs., $45 (pbk). ISBN 81-87138-12-2. Details No. 43647
Birds of Northern India/Richard Grimmett and Tim Inskipp. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2003, 304 p., plates, tables, $39 (pbk). ISBN 019566828-6. Details No. 34456
Birds of Our Country : Their Eggs, Nests, Life, Haunts and Identification/Frank Finn and E. Kay Robinson. Reprint. First published by Hutchinson & Co., London. 1999, 968 p., 800 black and white plates, 30 colour plates, 29 cm., $149. ISBN 81-7622-039-6. Details No. 14597
Birds of the Plains/Douglas Dewar. Delhi, Nidhi, 2004, x, 250 p., ills., $25. ISBN 81-902086-0-8. Details No. 38223
Birds of Prey of the Indian Subcontinent/Rishad Naoroji. New Delhi, Om Books International, 2007, 692 p., colour plates, $90. ISBN 81-87107-69-9. Details No. 52612
Birds of Western Ghats, Kokan and Malabar (Including Birds of Goa)/Satish Pande, Saleel Tambe, Clement Francis M. and Niranjan Sant. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2003, xvi, 377 p., colour photographs, $55. ISBN 019-566878-2. Details No. 34738
Birds of Western Maharashtra : A Reference Guide/compiled by Anand Prasad. Goa, Other India Press, 2006, viii, 316 p., $25 (pbk). ISBN 81-85569-73-8. Details No. 54962
A Birdwatchers’ Guide to India/Krys Kazmierczak and Raj Singh. Reprint, New Delhi, Oxford, 2001, xii, 337 p., map, $22. ISBN 019-565285-1. Details No. 22786
THE WEALTH OF INDIA : A
Dictionary of Indian Raw Materials & Industrial Products.
Raw Materials Volume 2B (Revised Series) Supplement : Birds.
1990, ix, 109 p., 47 pages of index in Latin, English, 22
coloured plates, $30. Details
No. 6221
The Book of Indian Birds/Salim Ali. Thirteenth revised edition. Bombay, Bombay Natural History Society, 2002, lvii, 326 p., 64 colour plates depicting 538 species, $28. ISBN 0-19-566523-6. Details No. 30763
The Call of the Hen or the Science of the Selection and Breeding of Poultry/Walter Hogan. Delhi, Asiatic Pub., 2006, vi, 138 p., figs., $31. ISBN 81-87067-75-6. Details No. 49453
Classification of Birds/Frank Finn. 1994, xxviii, 180 p., figs., $20. Details No. 9624
Common Birds of India/Asad R. Rahmani. New Delhi, Publications Division, 2005, xvii, 106 p., illus., $15. ISBN 81-230-1170-9. Details No. 43463
A Contribution to the Breeding Biology of Two Indian Mynas/A.K. Tyagi and B.S. Lamba. 1984, 108 p., 22 plates, figs., $11. [Records of the Zoological Survey of India]. Details No. 9030
A Dictionary of Birds/Alfred Newton. New Delhi, Cosmo Pub., 2007, 3 Vols., 1088 p., $70 (set). ISBN 81-307-0549-4. Details No. 49151
Encyclopaedia of Birds/Arvind N. Shukla and Rajiv Tyagi. New Delhi, Anmol, 2001, 3 volumes, 960 p., $132 (set). ISBN 81-261-0967-X. Details No. 24791
Endemic Birds of India : Records of the Zoological Survey of India: Occasional Paper No. 200/J.M. Dasgupta, Sipra Basu Roy and Bitan Kumar Datta. Kolkata, Zoological Survey of India, 2002, iv, 44 p., plates, $17 (pbk). ISBN 81-85874-80-8. Details No. 30459
Fauna of Sambhar Lake : Rajasthan. Kolkata, Zoological Survey of India, 2005, 200 p., tables, figs., $80 (pbk). ISBN 81-8171-057-6. Details No. 39381
A Field Guide to the Birds of India : Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives/Krys Kazmierczak. New Delhi, Om Book Service, 2006, 352 p., illus, $50. ISBN 81-87107-04-9. Details No. 52613
A Field Guide to The Birds of Sri Lanka/John Harrison. 1999, 219 p., 48 Colour Plates, $66. ISBN 019-854961-X. Details No. 14944
The Game Birds of India & Asia/Frank Finn. Reprint. First published in London in 1911. 1993, 180 p., ill., $11. Details No. 7881
Geo-Spatial Atlas for the Wetland Birds of Thar Desert, Rajasthan/Arun Kumar, P.L. Kankane and Q.H. Baqri. Kolkata, Zoological Survey of India, 2006, xii, 206 p., maps, photographs, $80. ISBN 81-8171-123-8. Details No. 47706
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan : Together with Those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka/Salim Ali and S. Dillon Ripley. Reprint. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001, 10 Vols., 2927 p., plates, maps, $187 (set). Details No. 24646
Hand Book of Freshwater Ornamental Fishes/Sarvesh Mathur, L.L. Sharma and A.K. Mathur. Bikaner, Yash, 2006, viii, 272 p., figs., $28. ISBN 81-86882-24-3. Details No. 44711
Handbook on Indian Wetland Birds and Their Conservation/Arun Kumar, J.P. Sati, P.C. Tak and J.R.B. Alfred. Kolkata, Zoological Survey of India, 2005, 472 p., plates, $80. ISBN 81-8171-058-4. Details No. 40808
How to Know the Indian Waders/F. Finn. Reprint. First published in 1920. 1994, 200 p., figures, $11. Details No. 9550
Important Bird Areas in India : Priority Sites for Conservation/edited by M. Zafar-ul Islam and Asad R. Rahmani. Mumbai, Bombay Natural History Society, 2004, xviii, 1133 p., tables, photos, $125. ISBN 0-19-567333-6. Details No. 39078
Indian Birds/R.K. Gaur. 1994, 120 p., maps., col. photographs, $46. Details No. 9739
An Introduction to Birds/H.S. Bhamrah and Kavita Juneja. Edited by K. Balvinder. Reprint. New Delhi, Anmol, 2001, vii, 216 p., figs., $22. ISBN 81-261-0702-2. Details No. 24852
An Introduction to Birds/Gurdarshan Singh and H. Bhaskar. New Delhi, Campus Books, 2003, xii, 242 p., figs., $25. ISBN 81-8030-011-0. Details No. 32284
NC Hills : The Enchanting Land and the Bird Mystery of Jatinga. Photographs and text by Dushyant Parasher. With an article on Jatinga by D. Hara Prasad. 1994, 130 p., col. photos, $59. Details No. 9864
Natural History of Birds, Fishes, Insects and Reptiles/Barr's Buffon. Reprint. First published in London in 1808. 1993, 6 v., 200 engravings, $198 (set). Details No. 7950
Nematode Parasites of Birds (Including Poultry) From South Asia/M.L. Sood. Lucknow, International Book Distributing, 2006, xiv, 824 p., figs., $85. ISBN 81-8189-015-9. Details No. 44594
Ornithobotany of Indian Weaver Birds/Satish Kumar Sharma. 1995, 235 p., figs., $28. Details No. 10969
Pheasants of India and Their Aviculture/Kunwar Raghavendra Singh & Kunwar Suresh Singh. 1995, ix, 176 p., figs., map, photos, $17. ISBN 81-85496-00-5. Details No. 14599
Pictorial Hand Book : Birds of Chennai/G. Thirumalai and S. Krishnan. Kolkata, Zoological Survey of India, 2005, xvi, 196 p., photographs, $30 (pbk). ISBN 81-8171-068-1. Details No. 41408
Pocket Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent/Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp, and Tim Inskipp. New Delhi, 1999, 384 p., Illus, $39. ISBN 019565155-3. Details No. 15178
Ramsar Sites of India: Keoladeo National Park, Rajasthan/Lalitha Vijayan. 1994, 77 p., col. photos, $11. Details No. 10153
Red Book of Threatened Birds of Bangladesh/edited by Md. Anwarul Islam, Mahmud-ul Ameen and Ainun Nishat. Dhaka, IUCN, 2000, xii, 116 p., tables, map, $22. ISBN 984-746-004-3. Details No. 23901
Salim Ali : India’s Birdman/Reeta Dutta Gupta. New Delhi, Rupa & Co., 2003, 63 p., photographs, $11. ISBN 81-291-0045-2. Details No. 30687
Salim Ali for Schools : A Children’s Biography/Zai Whitaker. Delhi, Permanent Black, 2003, x, 102 p., ills., $11. ISBN 81-7824-058-0. Details No. 31065
Shorebirds of Kerala (Including Gulls and Terns) : Pictorial Handbook/C. Sashikumar, Muhamed Jafer Palot, Sathyan Meppayur and C. Radhakrishnan. Kolkata, Zoological Survey of India, 2004, 169 p., tables, $55 (pbk). ISBN 81-8171-047-9. Details No. 37740
Splendid Plumage : Indian Birds by British Artists/Jagmohan Mahajan. New Delhi, Timeless books, 2001,149 p., plates, $105. ISBN: 962-8711-13-X. Details No. 21926.
Stray Feathers : A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies/edited by Allan Hume. Reprint. First published: 1873-1899. 1995, 12 Volumes, 5691 p., plates, maps,. $653 (set). Details No. 11288
Studies on Migratory Birds and their Feeding Behaviour in Corbett National Park/Girish Kumar and B.S. Lamba: 1985, 147 p., 24 plates, tables, $13. Details No. 9031
Studies on Some Ethnomedicinal Crustaceans, Fishes, Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals in Relation to their Usage as Drugs Among the Tribals of Sundarban, West Bengal, India/S.C. Majumder and A. Dey. Kolkata, Zoological Survey of India, 2007, iv, 52 p., tables, $11 (pbk). ISBN 81-8171-174-8. [Records of the ZSI: Occasional Paper No. 274]. Details No. 54589
Water Birds/Ranjit Lal. New Delhi, Rupa, 2006, xiv, 190 p., $11 (pbk). ISBN 81-291-0994-8. Details No. 48746
Waterbirds of Northern India/J.R.B. Alfred, Arun Kumar, P.C. Tak & J.P. Sati. Kolkata, Zoological Survey of India, 2001, xxiv, 227 p., $44. ISBN 81-85874-50-6. Details No. 20304
Wetlands and Waterbirds of West Bengal. Calcutta, Vision Pub., 1998, 119 p., figs., $11 (pbk). Details No. 45412
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