Bewick's
Water Birds

Volume II,
containing the History and Description of Water Birds
edition of 1847

(Foreign Birds)

Title Page
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Bearded Vulture i
Crested Vulture ii
Secretary iii
Crowned Paroquet iv
Little Guinea Paroquet iv
Ring Paroquet v
Golden-winged Paroquet v
Silky Starling vi
Three-toed Woodpecker vi
Ash-coloured Buzzard vii
Little Black and Orange Coloured Indian Hawk viii
Fork-tailed Indian Shrike ix
Crested Grakle x
Mino xi

(Water Birds)

Title Page
Great Plover 1
Sanderling 4
Long-legged Plover 6
Oyster Catcher 9
Golden Plover 12
Dotterel 14
Ring-tailed Dotterel 16
Grey Plover 19
Lapwing 21
Turnstone 25
Turnstone 27
Crane 29
Stork 32
Heron 36
Purple-crested Heron 40
Little Egret 43
Little White Heron 45
Bittern 47
Buff-coloured Egret 50
Little Bittern 52
Female Little Bittern 54
Night Heron 55
Avoset 58
Spoonbill 61
Glossy Ibis 65
Curlew 68
Whimbrel 70
Pigmy Curlew 73
Dunlin 75
Purre 77
Knot 79
Selninger Sandpiper 81
Little Stint 83
Red Sandpiper 84
Ruff 87
Red-legged Sandpiper 91
Spotted Redshank 94
Redshank 96
Green Sandpiper 99
Wood Sandpiper 101
Common Sandpiper 103
Spotted Sandpiper 106
Cinerous Godwit 108
Greenshank 110
Red Godwit 113
Godwit 115
Woodcock 118
Great Snipe 124
Scolopax Sabini 126
Snipe 128
Judcock 132
Water Rail 137
Land Rail or Corn Crake 141
Spotted Rail or Spotted Gallinule 143
Little Gallinule 145
Olivaceous Gallinule 147
Common Gallinule 148
Coot 152
Red-necked Phalarope 157
Red Phalarope 159
Grey Phalarope 160
Great-crested Grebe 164
Tippet Grebe 166
Red-necked Grebe 167
Eared Grebe 169
Dusky Grebe 171
Little Grebe 173
Sandwich Tern 177
Roseate Tern 179
Common Tern 181
Black Tern 184
Lesser Tern 186
Glaucous Gull 191
Young Glaucous Gull 193
Herring Gull 194
Black-backed Gull 196
Wagel 198
Lesser Black-backed Gull 199
Ivory Gull 201
Common Gull 203
Kittiwake 205
Young Kittiwake 207
Black-headed Gull 209
Red-legged Gull 212
Skua Gull 216
Arctic Gull 219
Black-toed Gull 221
Fulmar 225
Shearwater 227
Fork-tailed Petrel 230
Stormy Petrel 232
Tame Goose 238
Grey Lag Goose 245
White-fronted Wild Goose 249
Bernacle 251
Brent Goose 254
Red-breasted Goose 256
Cravat Goose 258
Egyptian Goose 262
Spur-winged Goose 264
Swan Goose 266
Wild Swan 268
Bewick's Swan 273
Mute Swan 275
Ferruginous Duck 279
Shieldrake 281
Musk Duck 285
Mallard 288
Tame Duck 296
Gadwall 300
Pintail Duck 302
Wigeon 305
Bimaculated Duck 308
Gargany 311
Teal 313
Shoveler 316
Eider Duck 319
King Duck 324
Velvet Duck 327
Scoter 329
Scaup Duck 332
Pochard 334
Castaneous Duck 337
Tufted Duck 339
Golden-Eye 343
Long-tailed Duck 345
Goosander 349
Dun-diver 352
Red-breasted Merganser 354
Smew 356
Lough Diver 358
Crested Cormorant 360
Cormorant 363
Shag 368
Gannet 372
Great Northern Diver 379
Black-throated Diver 381
Lesser Imber 383
Red-throated Diver 385
Second Speckled Diver 387
Foolish Guillemot 390
Lesser Guillemot 392
Black Guillemot 394
Little Auk 396
Puffin 398
Razor-Bill 402
Black-billed Auk 404
Great Auk 405