The World’s Rarest Birds is a sumptuous visual treat for birders, featuring a gallery of competition-winning bird photos from around the world. But it is more than that: Erik Hirschfeld – and collaborators Andy Swash and Rob Still – want everyone to be engaged with the plight of the rarest bird species. Here’s what he [...]
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Dormouse Nest Tubes – fast, secure placement
How have we improved our dormouse nest tubes? We have just released a new and improved model of the dormouse nest tube. What’s different? Well, we have tried to tackle two of the most frequently encountered problems with setting up dormouse nest tubes. (1) It can be tricky to attach them securely to a branch [...]
Imagine a rock pool: wildlife kit winners with NHBS and Wildlife Watch magazine
In association with NHBS, Wildlife Watch - the Wildlife Trusts‘ young members magazine - has been running a competition to win NHBS Educational Rock Pooling Kits. The task was to choose a shore creature and imagine a rock pool that would be ideally suited to its needs – and to draw it! There are five winners and their drawings [...]
New Edition of Bat Surveys: Good Practice Guidelines – available now
From the Bat Conservation Trust website: The Bat Conservation Trust encourages people working with bats, or those who might come into contact with bats or their roosts during their daily lives, to follow good practice. We have worked with organisations and individuals across many sectors to develop a range of guidance to help you conduct your business or perform your work [...]
Five reasons you will love the new Habibat Bat Box
1. Artificial accommodation designed for bats The Habibat is a large bat box made of insulating concrete with an internal roost space, which can be incorporated into the fabric of a building as it is built or renovated. Its single chamber is internally divided by inverted V wedges to increase surfaces for bats to roost against and [...]
Book of the Week: The Natural History of the Proboscis Monkey
Continuing our selection of the very best titles available through NHBS: The Natural History of the Proboscis Monkey John CM Sha, Ikki Matsuda and Henry Bernard What? A new natural history of this unique species, endemic to Borneo. Why? This concise, informative and abundantly illustrated volume summarises the current state of knowledge about the natural history [...]
BTO’s Norfolk Bird Atlas “a triumph of organization…” – IBIS review, October 2011
The Norfolk Bird Atlas: Summer and Winter Distributions 1999-2007 “This handsome volume is the successor to Kelly’s The Norfolk Bird Atlas (1986). The famous county has 1459 tetrads, and this new work is a triumph of organization, including as it does the contributions of over 400 observers, the number and quality of whom few [...]
Book of the Week: Primates of West Africa
Continuing our selection of the very best titles available through NHBS: Primates of West Africa: A Field Guide and Natural History John F. Oates What? New volume in the Tropical Field Guide Series from Conservation International. Why? Full of information about the primates of the highly bio-diverse West Africa region – from the coast of Senegal to [...]
“This tiny bundle of energy in my hand…”: John Altringham talks to the Hoopoe about bats
John Altringham, author of Bats: From Evolution to Conservation, discusses the appeal of bats, what they are, and how we should think about their conservation needs. How did you first become interested in studying bats? I was taken to a Natterer’s bat roost, almost 30 years ago now, and saw my first bat close up. [...]
Book of the Week: Bats: From Evolution to Conservation, 2nd Ed.
Continuing our selection of the very best titles available through NHBS: Bats: From Evolution to Conservation by John D. Altringham What? 2nd edition of John Altringham’s 1996 OUP publication, Bats: Biology and Behaviour Why? This rigorous and authoritative textbook is updated to reflect the current state of research on all aspects of bat biology, ecology [...]
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