With wildlife conservation high on everyone’s agenda, here are some recommendations to introduce you to the natural diversity of your garden, and help you to create a haven for wildlife on your doorstep: Guide to Garden Wildlife, by Richard Lewington, is a field guide to all the wildlife you might expect to encounter in the [...]
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Four great books for wildlife gardeners
Mammals of the World – Now in Stock at NHBS
We are excited to announce that the first volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of the World has just been published and is now in stock at NHBS! This landmark new series from Lynx Edicions – the publishers of the classic series Handbook of Birds of The World – provides the first comprehensive, global [...]
Living with Dormice – Now in Stock at NHBS
The dormouse is one of the least seen but most loved of British animals. Dormice have always been portrayed as elusive, rare animals with specialised food requirements found only in large ancient woodlands. Sue Eden was therefore surprised to find them nesting in the coastal scrub of her new garden. Her many years of ensuing [...]
Dormouse Nest Tubes New in Stock at NHBS
Dormouse Nest Tubes are now available from NHBS. These nest tubes provide a cheap and easy method of determining the presence of dormice within a habitat, and provide an effective alternative to using a large number of more expensive wooden nest boxes. The dormouse nest tube consists of two parts – the wooden ‘tray’ and [...]
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NHBS Bestsellers
1. The Bird Photography Field Guide 2. Field Guide to the Micro-Moths of Great Britain and Ireland 3. Herpetofauna Workers' Manual 4. A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil 5. Bird Monitoring Methods 6. Birdwatching in Northern Greece 7. Primates of Africa - Poster 8. Ecology 9. Field Guide to the Seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean Islands 10. The Encyclopedia of Fruit & Nuts
Recently on the Hoopoe
- Ladybirds: an interview with Helen Roy, Ecological Entomologist at the BRC
- The birding ID guide revolutionary Richard Crossley, interviewed by NHBS
- The World’s Rarest Birds: an interview with author and birder Erik Hirschfeld
- The Cambrian Explosion: an interview with paleobiologist and author Douglas H. Erwin
- Stewart McPherson’s Sarraceniaceae volumes reviewed in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
