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A list of books and monographs published on the biology and conservation of albatrosses and petrels (including shearwaters, storm petrels and diving petrels) follows. A few recently published books with a greater taxonomic coverage than members of the Order Procellariiformes are included. Click on REVIEW where given to access a review of the title in ACAP Latest News. Send details of missing titles to
Conference proceedings, workshop reports, bycatch mitigation manuals and conservation and related plans dealing with procellariiform seabirds are listed elsewhere within the Resources Section of this web site. For a list of children's books and fictional accounts on albatrosses and petrels click here.
List of Albatross and Petrel Books
Barwell, Graham 2014. Albatross. London: Reaktion Books. 208 pp. ISBN 978-1-78023-191-4. http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/. REVIEW
Beck, J.R. & Brown, D.W. 1972. The Biology of Wilson's Storm Petrel, Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl) at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands. British Antarctic Survey Scientific Reports No. 69. 54 pp.
Bell, Elizabeth A., Sim, Joanna L. & Scofield, Paul 2007. Demographic Parameters of the Black Petrel (Procellaria parkinsoni). DOC Research & Development Series No. 273. Wellington: Department of Conservation. 32 pp. ISBN 978-0-478-14225-9. www.doc.govt.nz.
BirdLife International 2004. Tracking Ocean Wanderers: the Global Distribution of Albatrosses and Petrels. Results from the Global Procellariiform Tracking Workshop, 1-5 September, 2003, Gordon's Bay, South Africa. Cambridge: BirdLife International. 100 pp. ISBN 0-946888-55-8. www.birdlife.org.
Brooke, Michael 1990. The Manx Shearwater. London: Academic Press. 246 pp. ISBN 0-85661-057-7.
Brooke, Michael 2004. Albatrosses and Petrels across the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 499 pp. ISBN 0 19 850125 0. www.oup.com.
Brooke, Michael 2018. Far from Land. The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 249 pp. Eight colour plates; 13 colour maps; numerous black & white photographs, maps and charts; black & white illustrations by Bruce Pearson. Hard Cover. ISBN 978-0-691-17418-1. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174181/far-from-land REVIEW
Conroy, J.W.H. 1972. Ecological Aspects of the Biology of the Giant Petrel, Macronectes giganteus (Gmelin) in the Maritime Antarctic. British Antarctic Survey Scientific Reports No. 75. 74 pp + 8 plates.
Cuthbert, Richard. J. 2017. Seabirds beyond the Mountain Crest. The History, Natural History and Conservation of Hutton’s Shearwater. Dunedin: Otago University Press. 212 pp. Paperback. 240 x 170 mm. ISBN 978-0-947522-64-3. NZ$ 45. www.otago.ac.nz/press. REVIEW
Davies, Margaret, Moller, Henrik & Bradley, Stuart (Eds) 2008. Procellariiform Biology - a Tribute to Irynej Skira, 1950-2005. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 142: 1-204. ISSN 0080-4703.
De Roy, Tui, Jones, Mark & Fitter, Julian 2008. Albatross. Their World, their Ways. London: Christopher Helm. 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-7136-8812-2. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/.
Doughty, Robin W. & Carmichael, Virginia 2011. The Albatross and the Fish. Linked Lives in the Open Seas. Austin: University of Texas Press. 302 pp. ISBN 978-0-292-72682-6. www.utexas.edu/utpress.
Fisher, James 1952 ( republished 1984). The Fulmar. London: Collins. 496 pp. ISBN 0 00 219065 6.
Fisher, Mildred L. 1970. The Albatross of Midway Island. A Natural History of the Laysan Albatross. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 161 pp. ISBN 0-8093-0426-0.
Flood, Bob & Fisher, Ashley 2013. Multimedia Identification Guide to North Atlantic Seabirds. Storm-petrels and Bulwer's Petrel. Pelagic Birds & Birding Multimedia Identification Guides 224 pp. http://www.scillypelagics.com
Flood, Bob & Fisher, Ashley 2013. Multimedia Identification Guide to North Atlantic Seabirds. Pterodroma Petrels. Pelagic Birds & Multimedia Identification Guides. 316 pp. ISBN 9780956886712. http://www.scillypelagics.com
Flood, Bob & Fisher, Ashley 2016. Multimedia Identification Guide to North Atlantic Seabirds. Albatrosses & Fulmarine Petrels. [Isles of Scilly]: Pelagic Birds & Multimedia Identification Guides. Illustrations by John Gale. 278 pp. + two CDs. ISBN 978-0-9568867-2-9. Hard cover, illustrated with paintings, photographs and maps. http://www.scillypelagics.com. REVIEW
Flood, Bob & Fisher, Ashley 2020. Multimedia Identification Guide to North Atlantic Seabirds: Shearwaters, Jouanin's & White-chinned Petrels. Illustrations by John Gale. ISBN 978-095-6886-77-4. Scilly Pelagics. 439 pp, Hard Ccover. http://www.scillypelagics.com
Gales, Rosemary 1993. Co-operative Mechanisms for the Conservation of Albatross. [Hobart]: Australian Nature Conservation Agency. 132 pp. ISBN 0 642 19745 8.
Gehrman, Elizabeth 2012. Rare Birds. The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man who brought it back from Extinction. Boston: Beacon Press. 240 pp. ISBN 979-0-8070-1076-1. www.beacon.org
Harper, Peter C. & Kinsky, F.C. 1974. Southern Albatrosses and Petrels. An Identification Guide. Wellington: Price Milburn & Co. for Victoria University Press. 116 pp. ISBN 0-7055-0667-3.
Hasegawa, Hiroshi 2006. Ahodori ni Muchu (Passionate about Albatross). Tokyo: Shin-nihon Shuppan. 182 pp. (in Japanese)
Howell, Steve N.G. 2012. Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-petrels of North America. A Photographic Guide. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 483 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-14211-1. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9534.html.
Howell, Steve N.G & Zufelt, Kirk. 2019. Oceanic Birds of the World. A Photo Guide. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press. 358 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-17501-0. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691175010/oceanic-birds-of-the-world.
Jameson, William 1958. The Wandering Albatross. London: Rupert Hart-Davis. 99 pp.
Lindsey, Terence 2008. Albatrosses. (Australian Natural History Series). Collingword: CSIRO Publishing. 139 pp. ISBN 9780643094215. https://www.publish.csiro.au/.
Lockley, Ronald M. 1942. Shearwaters. London: J.M. Dent.
Loomis, Leverett Mills 1918. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, 1905-1906. XII. A review of the Albatrossses, Petrels, and Diving Petrels. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series Vol II, Part II. 187 pp + 17 plates.
Lorentsen, Svein-Håkon 1995. Reproductive Effort in the Antarctic Petrel Thalassoica antarctica: the Effect of Parental Body Size and Condition. Trondheim: Department of Zoology, University of Trondheim. Not conventionally paginated. ISBN 82-90896-61-1.
Martin, Tony 2011. Albatrosses. Grantown-on-Spey: Colin Baxter Photography. 72 pp. ISBN 978-1-84107-403-0. www.colinbaxter.co.uk. REVIEW
Matthews, L. Harrison 1951. Wandering Albatross. Adventures among the Albatrosses and Petrels in the Southern Ocean. London: Macgibbon & Kee with Reinhardt & Evans. 134 pp.
Moore, Peter J. 2004. Abundance and Population Trends of Mollymawks on Campbell Island. Science for Conservation No. 242. Wellington: Department of Conservation. 62 pp. ISBN 0-478-22570-9. www.doc.govt.nz.
Neves, Tatiana 2013. Albatroz. Um Projeto Pela Vida. São Paulo: Dórea Books and Art. 132 pp. ISBN 978-857234475-3. www.dbaeditora.com.br. REVIEW
Onley, Derek & Scofield, Paul 2007. Albatrosses, Petrels and Shearwaters of the World. London: Christopher Helm. 240 pp. ISBN 979-0-71236-4332-9. www.acblack.com.
Osterlund, Hob 2016. Holy Mōlī: Albatross and other Ancestors. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press. 147 pp. ISBN 978-0-87071-849-9. Soft cover, illustrated with 22 black & white photographs. http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/holy-m%C5%8Dl%C4%AB. REVIEW
Pearson, Bruce 2012. Troubled Waters. Trailing the Albatross, an Artist’s Journey. Peterborough: Langford Press. 136 pp. ISBN 978-1-904078-48-7. www.langford-press.co.uk.
Peat, Neville 2011. Seabird Genius: The Story of L.E. Richdale, the Royal Albatross, and the Yellow-eyed Penguin. Dunedin: Otago University Press. 288 pp. ISBN-10: 1877578118. http://www.otago.ac.nz/press/. REVIEW
Richdale, L E. 1949. The Pre-egg Stage in Buller's Mollymawk. Biological Monographs No. 2 : 1-50.
Richdale, L. E. 1950. The Pre-egg Stage in the Albatross Family. Biological Monographs No. 3: 1-91.
Robb, Magnus, Mullarney & The Sound Approach 2008. Petrels Night & Day: a Sound Approach Guide. Poole, UK: The Sound Approach to Birding. 24 pp. + 2 CDs. ISBN 978-90-810933-2-3.
Robertson, Graham & Gales, Rosemary (Eds) 1998. Albatross Biology and Conservation. Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty & Sons. 300 pp. ISBN 0 949324 82 5.
Safina, Carl 2002. Eye of the Albatross. Visions of Hope and Survival. New York: Holt and Company. 377 pp. ISBN 0-8050-6228-9.
Serventy, Vincent 1996. The Flight of the Shearwater. Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press. 76 pp. ISBN 0 86417 803 4.
Terauds, Aleks & Stewart, Fiona 2005. Albatross. Elusive Mariners of the Southern Ocean. Sydney: Reed New Holland. 175 pp. ISBN 1 877069 26 4. www.newholland.com.au.
Tickell, W.L.N. 1962. The Dove Prion, Pachyptila desolata Gmelin. Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey Scientific Reports No. 33. 55 pp. + 8 plates.
Tickell, W.L.N. 2000. Albatrosses. Mountfield: Pica Press. 448 pp. ISBN 1-873403-94-1. www.acblack.com.
van Franeker, Jan Andries. 2001. Mirrors in Ice. Fulmarine Petrels and Antarctic Ecosystems. Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Not conventionally paginated. ISBN 90-367-1352-8.
Waid, Robert 2005. The Majestic Albatross. Images of Kauai's Beloved Seabirds. Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 51 pp. http://www.albatrosskauai.com/book/book2.html.
Warham, John 1990. The Petrels their Ecology and Breeding Systems. London: Academic Press. 440 pp. ISBN 0-12-735420-4.
Warham, John 1997. The Behaviour, Population Biology and Physiology of the Petrels. London: Academic Press. 613 pp. ISBN 0-12-735-4158.
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Last updated 27 September 2020