MODERN WILDFOWLING. By Eric Begbie. With wildfowl identification plates by Bernard Barker and photographs by the author.

1980 1st edition. 4to (190 x 250mm). Ppxviii,171. Colour plates, b/w photographs, illustrations by Bernard Barker, brief bibliography. Blue or brown boards, spine titled in gilt.

"Of all shooting sports, wildfowling is the most arduous, the most romantic and the loneliest. It is also the branch of wing-shooting in which the novice has the most to learn - in terms of safety, quarry identification, marshcraft and ethics." Chapters include: The night of the long guns; The Age of Enlightenment; Wildfowling today; The natural history of wildfowl; The quarry species; A gun for the marsh; Clothing and equipment; Safety on the shore; Flightcraft; The fowler's dog; Shooting and conservation; From gamebag to table; Close season pursuits.