WADERS. By W.G. Hale. New Naturalist No. 65.

1980 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 222mm). Pp320. B/w photograph plates, b/w line illustrations and maps, charts, bibliography. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt.

This is a detailed and authoritative account of the world's waders, their biology and ecology. Chapters include: The waders; Habitats and adaptation; Geographical distribution and variation; Breeding biology; Migration; Wintering populations; Communal roosting; Moult; Feeding ecology; Energy balance; Mortality and evolution; Carrying capacities in the non-breeding season; Cockles and conservation; Appendices give; monthly records of rarities, American waders in the British Isles, rare Eurasian waders in the British Isles, other Hastings rarities struck off the British List, species not considered now as rarities. New Naturalist No. 65.