Research staff at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa have been studying a rarely seen Colossal Squid caught by fishermen off the Antarctic coast last February. They found that it has eyes measuring 27cm in diameter - the largest eye found to date!
There are regular updates on the Te Papa Blog and videos of the ongoing examination.
I wonder if NHBS is the only bookshop in the world with a Cephalopods Category on our website?
May 6th, 2008 at 09:30am
Nigel
We are very excited about Richard Lewington’s new Guide to Garden Wildlife - it includes the vast majority of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects and other invertebrates that you are likely to encounter in the garden or on your local wildlife patch. The introduction covers the functional role of different animal types in our gardens - soil dwellers, herbivores, pollinators, predators and parasitoids along with advice on attracting wildlife to your garden. Each animal group is introduced with general biology, life-cycle and basic ecology
The illustrations are first class - Richard Lewington’s work sets the standard in natural history illustration. In addition, his brother Ian has provided the excellent bird illustrations for this book. Guide to Garden Wildlife comes with our very strongest recommendation.
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:42am
Nigel
We are pleased to announce that the British Trust for Ornithology has appointed NHBS as trade distributor of BTO Publications.
Bestsellers include:
The BTO Nestbox Guide
Identification Guide to European Passerines
Identification Guide to European Non-Passerines
Statistics for Ornithologists
Browse the full list
The British Trust for Ornithology has existed since 1933 as an independent, scientific research trust, investigating the populations, movements and ecology of wild birds in the British Isles. Their speciality is the design and implementation of volunteer wild bird surveys through a partnership between a large number of volunteers and a small scientific staff.
Click here to find out more about becoming a BTO member
April 30th, 2008 at 09:10pm
Nigel
We have two stages for checking books into stock at NHBS. Firstly all incoming books (several hundred per day) are unpacked, checked for damage and entered into stock. We then carry out ‘Book Checks’ - items which haven’t been into stock before are passed to the Catalogue Manager so that she can check that title, author and other bibliographic details are correct. This is also a great chance for us to see what’s new, what’s better than expected or, in some cases, not quite what had been described. It’s the life-blood of what we do - ensuring accurate information and physically checking the books we recommend to you. Walking through the office yesterday I spotted this pile of Book Checks working their way through the system:
April 23rd, 2008 at 09:27am
Nigel
Freshwater Fishes of Costa Rica is the only decent book we can find on the non-marine fish of Costa Rica. It’s not new (it’s a 2002 reprint, this 2nd Ed published in 1998) but it is now in stock - I mention this because we have been waiting for it to come into stock for a year! This is a long wait… but well worth it. In Portuguese and English, Bussing has provided a high level of taxonomic, physiological and ecological information, there are good maps and diagrams, as well as some reasonable colour and black & white images. You may also be interested in the Check List of Fishes of South and Central America.
April 9th, 2008 at 01:51pm
Nigel
We have added some new features on www.nhbs.com which provide you with more information about our books, DVD’s and other products while you are browsing and searching the site.
Images
There are now multiple images for many books - we’ve scanned inside most top-selling titles where we feel extra images will help you make a decision about the artwork, plates or maps in the book you’re considering. Where it might be useful, we’ll also scan the back of the book. Books like Beneath the Surface have excellent artwork on the jacket, but seeing samples of the stunning illustrations inside make it much easier to decide whether you want to buy the book.
For wildlife equipment such as Nest Box Camera Kits, we are including images of the product in use together with additional information on accessories. The pages for the Nest Box Camera Kits also include sample video footage obtained from these kits.
Contents
We also added a contents tab to some of our book pages - we’ll be putting this in whenever we can get it electronically in advance of publication.
Reviews
NHBS staff are busy reading Nature, New Scientist, Science, Scientific American, BBC Wildlife and dozens of other journals and magazines on your behalf to pick out reviews of key titles. Not all natural history titles get reviews but where they do, and if we spot them - we’ll put them up on the site.
Author Bio
Sometimes we can add a short author biography - we’ll do this when a decent source is available.
Future Developments
It would be very interesting to hear whether you would like to read and contribute Customer Reviews to www.nhbs.com - it’s a feature we are thinking about. Please do leave comments via the blog or drop us an email.
January 30th, 2008 at 11:27am
Nigel
Due to popular demand we have added Gift Vouchers to our expanding range of products. They come in five denominations: £5, £10, £25, £50 and £100, and make an excellent gift for all natural history enthusiasts. They can be redeemed online, by email, phone, fax or in writing.
December 8th, 2007 at 12:56pm
Administrator
The latest
Collins New Naturalist has just been published! Peter Bircham’s
A History of Ornithology is now in stock at NHBS in both hardback and softback. If you are a collector of this series, don’t delay in ordering to secure copies from the first print run.
October 5th, 2007 at 11:19am
Nigel
Simon Wood signing copies of the newly published Birds of Essex with Wildlife presenter Nigel Marven at the NHBS stand at the British Birdfair.Click here to browse the full range of books we took to the Birdfair.
August 25th, 2007 at 08:19am
Nigel
We are preparing for the 2007 British Birdfair at Rutland Water. As always, we have a large range of books on ornithology, British wildlife, travel and conservation. Click here to browse the full range of books available on the NHBS stand. Our stand is numbers 15 & 38 in Marquee Two. We look forward to seeing you.
August 14th, 2007 at 12:40pm
Nigel
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