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The Practical Guide to Ornamental Waterfowl and Exotic Garden Birds – Classic 1969 guide to ornamental waterfowl, ducks, geese, swans and exotic garden birds, packed with practical advice on keeping, breeding and identification. A desirable first edition with dust jacket.
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The Practical Guide to Ornamental Waterfowl and Exotic Garden Birds is a classic and highly practical guide to keeping and breeding ornamental waterfowl and exotic garden birds, written by John and Phyllis Parker and first published in 1969. Covering everything from selecting and housing birds to feeding, breeding, hatching and identification, this book remains an invaluable reference for aviculturists, bird keepers and collectors of vintage natural history books.
The Practical Guide to Ornamental Waterfowl and Exotic Garden Birds includes detailed chapters on ducks, geese, swans, pheasants, peafowl, quail, guinea fowl and other exotic garden birds. Practical advice is provided on nesting, fertility testing, pinioning, sexing, fencing, water requirements, predators and seasonal feeding. Illustrated with black and white photographs, it is both a useful handbook and an attractive period title for the collector’s shelf.
Published in London by Arco Publications in 1969, this is the original first edition hardcover with its uncommon illustrated dust jacket. The book contains 184 pages and retains its attractive blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to the spine.
Condition – Very good
Hardcover in a very good dust jacket with only minor shelf wear. Blue cloth boards are clean and bright with strong gilt lettering. Internally clean and well preserved.
