BOOKS WRITTEN, EDITED OR CONTRIBUTED TO

Author
Ducks of Britain and Europe (illustrated by Carol Ogilvie) (Poyser, 1975)
The Winter Birds (Michael Joseph, 1976)
Wild Geese (illustrated by Carol Ogilvie) (Poyser, 1978; Buteo Books, 1978)
The Bird-watcher’s Guide to the Wetlands of Britain (Batsford, 1979)
Birdwatching on Inland Fresh Waters (illustrated by Carol Ogilvie) (Severn House, 1981; pbk edn 1983)
The Wildfowl of Britain and Europe (illustrated by Peter Scott and Noel Cusa) (Oxford University Press, 1981)
Flamingos (illustrated by Carol Ogilvie) (Alan Sutton, 1986)
The Birds of Islay (illustrated by Carol Ogilvie) (Lochindaal Press, 1992, 2nd ed. 1994, 3rd ed. 2003)
Wildfowl Behaviour Guide (illustrated by Bruce Pearson) (Hamlyn, 1994)
The Wild Flowers of Islay: a checklist (Lochindaal Press, 1995)
A Photographic Guide to the Wildfowl of the World (with Steve Young) (New Holland, 1998; pbk edn 2002)
Grebes of the World (illustrated by Chris Rose) (Bruce Coleman, 2002)
The Birds of Islay - a Celebration in Photographs (with Gordon Langsbury) (Lochindaal Press, 2006)

Editor
Symposium on Current Research in Arctic Geese (with Fridtjof Mehlum) (Norsk Polarinstitutt, Oslo, 1984)
Best Days with British Birds (with Stuart Winter) (British Birds, 1989)
A Coloured Key to the Wildfowl of the World by Peter Scott (Prepared revised edn., HarperCollins, 1998; further revisions for new edn., Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, 2006)

Contributor (a chapter or section or more, or consultant)
The New Wildfowler in the 1970s (Sedgwick, Whitaker & Harrison - Barrie & Jenkins, 1970)
The Swans (Peter Scott and the Wildfowl Trust - Michael Joseph, 1972)
The Bird Watchers' Book (ed. Gooders - David & Charles, 1974)
The Birds of the Western Palearctic, vols 1-6 (Cramp & Simmons - Oxford University Press, 1977-92)
Frontiers of Bird Identification (ed. Sharrock - Macmillan, 1980)
The Natural History of Britain and Ireland (Angel - Michael Joseph, 1981)
Natural Environment of the Inner Hebrides (ed. Boyd & Bowes - Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1983)
Secrets of the Coast (Ingle - Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983)
Evolution of Domesticated Animals (Mason - Longman, 1984)
The Encyclopedia of Birds (ed. Perrins & Middleton - Unwin, 1985)
Wildfowl in Great Britain, 2nd edn (Owen, Atkinson-Willes & Salmon - Cambridge University Press, 1986)
The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Britain and Ireland (Lack - Poyser, 1986)
The Birdwatching Year (ed. Sullivan - Equation, Thorsons, 1989)
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds (ed. Perrins - Headline, 1990)
The Hamlyn Photographic Guide to Birds of the World (ed. Gosler - Hamlyn, 1991)
The New Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland (Gibbons, Reed & Chapman - Poyser, 1993)
Atlas of Bird Migration (ed. Elphick - HarperCollins, 1995)
Children's Encyclopedia of Birds (Johnson - Gollancz, 1996)
AA Book of the Countryside (Automobile Association, 1998)
Disney Children's Encyclopedia - Birds (Johnson - Disney, 1999)
Marshall's Children's Animal Encyclopedia (Whitfield & Johnson - Marshall Editions, 1999)
Goose Populations of the Western Palearctic (ed. Madsen, Cracknell & Fox - Wetlands International, 1999)
The UK SPA Network, Vol.2: species accounts (ed. Stroud et al. - JNCC, 2001)
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia (Gale Group, 2002-3)
The Migration Atlas (Wernham, Marchant, et al. - BTO/Poyser, 2002)
Wildfowl (ed. Kear - Oxford University Press, Bird Families of the World series, 2005)
Natural History Museum Atlas of Bird Migration (ed. Elphick - Natural History Museum, London, 2007) (Consultant, contributor and wrote foreword)
The Birds of Argyll (Argyll Bird Club, 2007)
The Birds of Scotland (Scottish Ornithologists' Club, 2007)

Compiler
Birds on Stamps, 5th edition (Stanley Gibbons Publications, 2002)

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