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Corvus: A Life With Birds
One spring, many years ago, Esther Woolfson's daughter rescued a fledgling rook. That rook, named Chicken, quickly established herself as part of the family, and other birds, including an irascible...
The Return of the Grey Partridge: Restoring Nature on the South Downs
The Return of the Grey Partridge tells the extraordinary story of how wildlife is restoed to the Arundel Estate in West Sussex. Prompted by the collapse in numbers of one...
The Return of the Grey Partridge: Restoring Nature on the South Downs
The Return of the Grey Partridge tells the extraordinary story of how wildlife is restoed to the Arundel Estate in West Sussex. Prompted by the collapse in numbers of one...
Antpittas and Gnateaters
Elusive study organisms for ornithologists and highly prized additions to the birder's life-list, the antpittas (Grallariidae) and gnateaters (Conopophagidae) are among the most poorly known Neotropical bird groups. This authoritative...
Field Guide to the Birds of Chile
A comprehensive and authoritative illustrated guide to all of Chile's birdsWith its diverse range of habitats, Chile boasts a remarkable variety of breeding and visiting birds, from penguins to hummingbirds,...
The Gull Next Door: A Portrait of a Misunderstood Bird
A uniquely personal meditation on Britain's gulls by one of today's leading wildlife writers From a distance, gulls are beautiful symbols of freedom over the oceanic wilderness. Up close, however,...
British and Irish Birds: A Pocket Guide
A carefully designed and lavishly illustrated photographic guideThis innovative and carefully designed photographic guide provides a concise introduction to the identification of the 246 birds most likely to be seen...
Birds of Malaysia and Singapore
A comprehensive illustrated field guide to the birds of Malaysia and Singapore This comprehensive field guide looks at all 829 officially recorded bird species of Malaysia and Singapore. More than...
Birds of Kenya's Rift Valley
Kenya's Rift Valley includes four major national parks--Lake Nakuru, Lake Bogoria, Mount Longonot, and Hell's Gate--as well as many smaller areas that are outstanding for wildlife. Birds of Kenya's Rift...
Birds of Mongolia
Birds of Mongolia is the first guide to describe and illustrate all of the country's bird species. This huge landlocked country encompasses a diverse range of habitats, including forests, mountains,...
Birds of Eastern Africa: Updated Edition
This is a fully updated edition of the only pocket guide that illustrates and describes all 1,487 bird species of eastern Africa, an area that includes Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia,...
Birds of Europe, Russia, China, and Japan: Non-Passerines: Loons [...]
Illustrates and describes nearly 1,800 bird species found in the Palearctic - the huge region that includes Europe, Asia north of the Himalayas, Africa north of the Sahara Desert, and...
Birds of East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Russia
With 234 superb color plates, and more than 950 color maps, Birds of East Asia makes it easy to identify all of the region's species. The first single-volume field guide...
Feasting, Fowling and Feathers: A History of the Exploitation of Wild Birds
A highly readable review of some 700 years of avian exploitation. The way wild birds have been exploited over the centuries forms the focus of this remarkable new book by...
Featherhood: 'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman
Author: Charlie GilmourFormat: Hardback, 140mm x 220mm, 398g, 288 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2020'One of the best books I have ever read. Incredibly moving' Elton John'I cant recommend...
Wildlife of Victoria's South-West: A Guide to the Grampians-Gariwerd, Volcanic Plains, Melbourne and Surrounds
Author: Grant Palmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Victoria's South-West is an iconic region of Australia that includes the exceptional landscape features of the Grampians-Gariwerd, the Victorian Volcanic Plain...
Capturing the Essence: Techniques for Bird Artists
Author: William T. Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Once described by Sir David Attenborough as 'the best ornithological illustrator alive', William T. Cooper was a generous mentor to...
Pelican
Author: Barbara Allen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 With its distinctive, comical walk, large bill and association with the conservation movement, the pelican has attained iconic status. But the...
The Bird: The Great Age of Avian Illustration
Author: Philip Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The Bird explores the fascinating world of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ornithological illustration. This was a period of scientific, artistic and geographic...
Avian Architecture Revised and Expanded Edition: How Birds Design, Engineer, and Build
Author: Peter Goodfellow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Birds are the most consistently inventive builders, and their nests set the bar for functional design in nature. Describing how birds...
Swan: Portrait of a Majestic Bird, from Mythical Meanings to the Modern Day
Author: Dan Keel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Book of the Month, Countryside magazine '[this] fascinating new book... provides a detailed insight into the snow-white species' Waterways World A...
Swan: Portrait of a Majestic Bird, from Mythical Meanings to the Modern Day
Author: Dan Keel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Book of the Month, Countryside magazine '[this] fascinating new book... provides a detailed insight into the snow-white species' Waterways World A...
The Instant
Author: Amy Liptrot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING Wishing to leave behind the isolation of her Orkney island...
The Instant
Author: Amy Liptrot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING Wishing to leave behind the isolation of her Orkney island...
Birds: The Art of Ornithology (Pocket edition)
Author: Jonathan Elphick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Jonathan Elphick tells the remarkable story of the development of bird art through the centuries. The book features early, skilfully executed...
Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong
Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize'Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening' Sunday TimesA book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the...
Nature's Wonders: Moments that mark the seasons (National Trust)
Author: Jane V. Adams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Britain's nature year, from the first flower to the last leaf With a mix of evocative writing, beautiful photographs and...
The Poetry of Birds
Author: Samuel Carr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A sublime collection of beautiful poems written about birds to read again and again as a source of comfort and joy....