Life Histories of North American Petrels and Pelicans and Their Allies: Gannet; Cormorant; Fulmar; Shearwater; Tropic-Bird; Booby; Water-Turkey; Man-O'-War-Bird; Pelican; Albatross; Cahow; Petrel (Dover Books on Birds)

xiv, 327, 69 plates, [15] (publisher catalog). Released as part of Bent's larger work Life Histories of North American Birds, which won the John Burroughs Medal in 1940. Each volume is an exhaustive description of various species based on intense observation and studies of other great naturalists such as Audubon, Burroughs, and Brewster. Essential for anyone with a serious interest in ornithology.