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Save Our Birds: How to bring our favourite birds back from the brink
Bestselling bird-enthusiast and artist Matt Sewell brings to life the simple ways we can help the UK's most-loved birds with his beautiful art and expert tips. The Banksy of The...
Birds: Coping with An Obsession: One Man's Journey Through 50 Years of
Passionate birdwatcher and conservationist Derek Moore has been an instrumental figure in British ornithology for more than half a century. Renowned as one of birding's best story-tellers, Derek takes a...
Feasting, Fowling and Feathers: A History of the Exploitation of Wild
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...
The Social Lives of Birds: a must-read for bird and nature lovers
'A tour-de-force survey of how birds live their lives - with all the drama, surprise, humour, sadness and amazement of any human soap-opera' - Stephen Moss, author of Ten Birds...
Vintage Birds: A Guidebook and Matching Game
The Vintage Birds Memory Deck and Guidebook is a 50-card deck depicting 25 pairs of the world's most beautiful birds from vintage artworks and an 80-page guidebook with interesting descriptions...
Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment. Trish O'Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her...
Bald Eagles In The Wild: A Visual Essay of America's National Bird
The majestic Bald Eagle was adopted in 1792 as America's official bird. It has historically been a symbol of freedom and patriotism in the United States of America, and for...
A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
Professional birding amateur and national bestselling author Matt Kracht has had it with these goddamn birds. His new book is a warning, a field guide to help you identify and...
Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia
In "Eagle Dreams", Bodio gives life to the people, landscapes and animals of Mongolia that have become part of his soul.
Papa Goose: One Year, Seven Goslings, and the Flight of My Life
A scientist's life is changed forever when he is put in charge of raising seven goslings for flight research. Michael Quetting is exhausted and covered in goose shit. One moment...
The Complete Garden Bird
In the same series as "The Complete Hedgehog", this illustrated book combines facts, myths, anecdotes and practical tips about our most familiar wild creatures, the garden birds we see every...
A Conspiracy of Ravens: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Birds
A charm of goldfinches. An ostentation of peacocks. A murder of crows. The English language brims with witty words for flocks of birds! Thought to have originated from hunting manuals,...
Featherhood: 'Ranks among the best modern coming-of-age memoirs'
'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald 'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree 'Beautiful - it made me cry' Simon Amstell 'I was entranced' Cathy...
A Year of Tropical Birdsong: 52 Stories of Tropical Songbirds
Fascinating stories of the birds and birdsongs from the Tropics for every week of the year, with QR codes for every entry. From the incredible screech of the macaw, who...
Eagle
Symbol of courage and liberty to peoples around the world, the eagle has inspired humankind since the Stone Age, when images of this magnificent bird of prey first appeared in...
A Year of Tropical Birdsong: 52 Stories of Tropical Songbirds
Fascinating stories of the birds and birdsongs from the Tropics for every week of the year, with QR codes for every entry. From the incredible screech of the macaw, who...
Blood Ties
An uncannily brilliant evocation of the falconer's art and a moving story of a man's discovery of how to be a father. 'I was moved to tears by Ben Crane's...
Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing
This is the miracle of flight as you've never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the wing. A bird flits overhead. It's an everyday occurrence, repeated hundreds,...
Mateship with Birds
This is not just a book for bird-lovers. Chisholm's charming and often humorous prose reveals a man who loves words as well as birds. His style of writing and the...
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 Times A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit,...
Birds: Poetry in the Sky
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Flock Together: Outsiders: Reclaim your place in nature
AS SEEN ON BBC ONE'S THE ONE SHOW 'Nature is a universal resource. For too long Black, Brown and people of colour have felt unwelcome and marginalised in spaces that...
The Life of Birds
A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic. BIRDS. 11,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home...
Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
The award-winning bestseller that put Australian birds on the world map - nature and science writing at their best. Renowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds...
Birdscaping Australian Gardens
Featuring plant and bird directories illustrated with superb colour photographs and line drawings, as well as comprehensive planting tables and expert advice, this book has all you need to create...
Enchantment by Birds: a history of birdwatching in 22 species
A fresh appreciation of the magic of birds and how watching them fulfils a human need to connect with nature. Enchantment by birds is commonplace. Birdwatchers merely go a step...
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia - 8th Edition
OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD The most comprehensive one-volume book of identification that shows all Australian bird species, perfect for birders of all levels of expertise. Since its first...
Birds as Individuals
Classic nature writing for bird lovers - a portrait of Britain's ordinary garden birds, and the woman who opened her doors to them. Enter the secret lives of Britain's ordinary...
Birdle: Fun Word Games About Australian Birds
What do you get when you combine birds with word games? Birdle, of course! From wordsearches to crosswords, word pyramids to pop quizzes, have fun solving more than 100 puzzles...
Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's
The Times Nature Book of the Year 2020 - A breathtaking portrait of Russia's remote far eastern forest, and of the world's most extraordinary owl The forests near to where...
Vesper Flights: The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of H is
From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world' Observer...
H is for Hawk: The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel
**WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR** **WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION** **WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE TRANGER** 'Dazzling... Deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and...
Mr and Mrs Gould: The extraordinary true story about the life of
The grand story of the famous 'Birdman' John Gould and his talented wife Elizabeth, who revealed the astonishing world of Australian birds and wildlife in one of the most important...
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...
The Profit Of Birding
Author Bryan Bland has led thousands of birding tours to more than 70 countries. On one such trip to India a bemused waiter once posed the question: "Where is the...
Feminist Bird Club's Birding for a Better World: A Guide to Finding
"Through the Feminist Bird Club, Molly Adams and Sydney Golden Anderson have walked the walk of inclusive birding; in Birding for a Better World, they talk the talk-this book got...
RSPB Great British Birdwatcher's Puzzle Book: Test your ornithological
AVAILABLE NOW -THE RSPB GARDEN BIRDWATCHER'S PUZZLE BOOK A jam-packed puzzle and trivia book about the birds in Britain, in collaboration with the RSPB. Can you...
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...
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...
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...
The Bird Art of William T. Cooper
Author: Wendy Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 356 **Shortlisted, 2024 Queensland Literary Awards, The Courier-MailPeople'sChoiceQueenslandBook of the YearAward** William T. Cooper is considered a master painter of birds. He...
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...
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...
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...