Books, Authors, Artists
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.
Bird Species Pages
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
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.
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
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
wsb The Way to Study Birds, John Dryden Kuser, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1917
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
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
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
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