Books & Publications

Peter’s Books

Signed, personalized books make great gifts. Contact Peter through the form below to find out how to receive your copy or copies of these popular, informative books, signed and personalized to you, a friend or loved one.

  • The Gray Curtain

    The Gray Curtain

    The Impact of Seals, Sharks and Commercial Fishing on the Northeast Coast

    Discover, through informative text and 120 vivid images, the interrelationships between commercial fishing, expanding gray seal populations, and great white sharks along the beaches of Cape Cod and the northeast coast. The history of commercial fishing, amazing detailed images of gray seals, and the recent occurrence of white sharks are explained with text and photographs.

    $13.00, Plus $2 postage.

  • Closer to the Great Whales

    Closer to the Great Whales

    A photographic book with over one hundred imags of Humpback Whales and other baleen and toothed whales found along the northeast coast, primarily the waters off Cape Cod. Bright, detailed images and descriptions for anyone who loves the sea and the great whales.

    $13.00, Plus $2 postage.

  • Coyotes in the Neighborhood

    Coyotes in the Neighborhood

    An Informational Guide to the Habits and Life History of the Eastern Coyote.

    This informational guide introduces you to this new predator we call the Eastern Coyote. Who is this animal? What is its origin? Big coyote? Small Wolf? In this guide your questions and concerns about coyotes, pets, livestock and humans are explained in easy to read text with photographs by me and David Ludlow and illustrations by my daughter Sarah and my wife Carol. Iu2019ve been involved with coyotes in the field since 1989 and Iu2019ve seen a lot, day and night. New DNA evidence shows that these animals are as much Eastern Timber Wolf (Canis lycaon) ,as Western Coyote (Canis latrans).

    $12.50, Plus $2 postage.

  • An Illustrated Guide to the Common Birds of Cape Cod

    An Illustrated Guide to the Common Birds of Cape Cod

    A perfect guide for the beginning birder or anyone who loves birds, young or old. The informative text provides helpful advice on the best bird watching techniques and six field trips focusing on different environments on the cape, and the species that populate them. Color illustrations by Catherine Clark.

    $20.00, Plus $2 postage.

  • Billy's Bird-Day

    Billy's Bird-Day

    As Billy and his family settle down on a sandy Cape Cod beach for a quiet summer picnic, he watches as birds fill the sky and start diving angrily towards them, screaming and calling loudly, trying to scare them away from their nesting area. These beautiful, graceful birds called Terns that Billy discovered one hot summer afternoon will change his life and help him understand how we must learn to share our world with other species.

    $15.00. Plus $2 postage.

Publications

AJ Gallagher, PF Trull, MS Faherty., Predatory behaviors of coyotes (Canis latrans) Living in Coastal

Ecosystems. Ecology and Evolution 2019

Blokpoel, H., R. D. Morris, and P. Trull. "Winter observations of common terns in Trinidad, Guyana and

Suriname." Colonial Waterbirds (1982): 144-147.

Trull, P. The 1978 Tern Nesting Season. The Cape Naturalist 1978 Winter, 7 (3): 62-63

Trull, P. Life in a Tern Colony. The Cape Naturalist 1978 Spring; 6 (4): 72-75

Trull, P. The 1979 Tern Nesting Season. The Cape Naturalist 1980 Spring; 8 (4): 76-77

Trull, P. The 1980 Tern Nesting Season. The Cape Naturalist 1981 Summer; 10 (1): 22-23

Trull, P. The 1981 Tern Nesting Season. The Cape Naturalist 1982 Spring; 10 (4): 78-79

Trull, P. F. Shorebirds and Noodles. American Birds Magazine.. May-June 1983

Trull, P. Terns in Winter – A Management Concern. Cape Naturalist. 1984 Fall; 13 (2): 27-32

Trull, P. A Field Guide to the Terns of Cape Cod. Cape Naturalist. 1988 Winter-1989 Winter; 17(3):53-

54.

Trull, Peter. The Roseate Tern: A Life in the Balance. 1989. The Cape Naturalist Vol. 17: No.3

Trull, The Coming of the Coyote. Cape Naturalist. 1992; 20: 35-38

Trull, P. 1992. A Guide to the Common Birds of Cape Cod. Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

Trull, P. F. 1996. Billy’s Bird-day. Shank Painter Publishing Company, Provincetown, MA.

Trull, Peter, et al. "Staging of Roseate Terns Sterna dougallii in the post-breeding period around Cape

Cod, Massachusetts, USA." Atlantic Seabirds1.4 (1999): 145-158

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Trull, P. F. Coyotes in the Neighborhood – An Informational Guide to the Habits and Life History of the

Eastern Coyote. 2002. Shank Painter Publishing Company, Provincetown, MA

Trull, P. F. 2007. The Birding Side of whale Watching. Dolphin Fleet Newsletter

Trull, Peter. The Roseate Tern – Endangered and Enduring. Massachusetts Wildlife Magazine.

Trull, P. F. 2010. Closer To the Great Whales. Schiffer Publishing, Atglen PA

Trull, P. F. 2012. An Illustrated Guide to the Common Birds of Cape Cod. Schiffer Publishing, Atglen,

PA

Trull, P. F. The Gray Curtain. 2015. Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA

Trull, P. F., Finnegan S., Gallagher, A.J., A New Method for Catching Wilson’s Storm Petrels

(Oceanites oceanicus) at Sea. Marine Ornithology. 46: 2018. 125-127

Trull, P. 2019, Birds of Paradox – The Life of Terns. Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA