70birds Resources

Books, authors, artists, illustrators, photographers, agencies, museums and various other sources are cited below.

Birdhouse Designs

Basic dimensions which simulate tree cavities preferred by individual bird species: square floor area, inside floor to ceiling height and entrance openings, are provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Geological Survey. All birdhouse designs, plans, assembly drawings and photos published at 70birds.com are creations and intellectual property of 70birds.

Bird Art

Century old wildlife art by naturalist-artists make excellent gifts and become family heirlooms that increase in value over time. You may agree that wildlife painted in their typical habitats, engaged in each particular species’ common foraging and nesting activities are the best illustrations for identification and for just plain enjoyment. Antiquarian natural history books are abundant and still widely available at reasonable prices.

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. Works in this book are protected by copyright and not in public domain.

Other artists of published works you may enjoy searching for include Louis Agassiz Fuertes, R. Bruce Horsfall, Rex Brasher, Chester A. Reed, Earnest Seton-Thompson, John L. Ridgway, Robert Ridgway, Edmund J. Sawyer and Frank C. Hennessey. They, other illustrators and photographers are listed below along with the books and authors with whom they are associated.

When searching for wildlife art you may encounter sellers of “antique art prints” or similar. Often these “prints” are simply pages removed from books with dozens of additional illustrations. You may be able to purchase these books for prices equivalent to one or two “antique prints”. Used book sellers sometimes describe a lower priced book’s condition as “breaker”, which suggests poor binder condition such that illustrations could be removed and sold or used for framing and displaying individual art pieces.

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
Pigeon
Grackle 1,2,3,4,5,67,8,12,17

Bird 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      USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
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      Raptors, North Dakota State Game and Fish Department
15      Birds, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
16      Alberta Fish and Game – dimensions
17      Key to North American Birds, Elliott Coues, 5th 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

Books, Authors, Illustrators, Photographers, Ornithologists

Original file names of 50birds published images, art, photos, etc., included cross reference initials of artists, authors, and books. Newer web page publishing standards precluded this file naming system and it is no longer used. Some, not all image files originally published at 50birds are published on the newer 70birds site, which focuses exclusively on birdhouse and platform nesting birds. Some of the other images are published at The Ivory Bill.

nll       Nature Lovers Library

mol     Mammals of Other Lands, Hoolock Gibbon hylobates hoolock, Netting Hill

nh      Netting Hill

pl       Percy Leigh

lm      L. Medland

oa      Ottomar Anschutz

gww    G. W. Wilson

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

gsp     Gene Stratton Porter

hkj      Herbert Keightley Job, The Sport of Bird Study

Illustrators

fch      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 Statesand 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