Helen Roy, Ecological Entomologist at the Biological Records Centre, is one of a team of authors who have been involved in the revision of this classic Naturalists’ Handbook. I see from your professional history that throughout most of your career you have been involved in research with ladybirds. What originally drew you to these fascinating [...]
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NHBS Weekly Digest: Snails; birds – extinct, and hidden; 77 Years of WAZA; spotting scopes and hand lenses
New books in stock The best of the new arrivals: Snails on Rocky Sea Shores John Crothers Number 30 in the Naturalists’ Handbooks series. The British and Irish coastlines are covered in this key to the common species. Habitats and ecology are considered along with accessible techniques useful to anyone interested in the study of these [...]
NHBS Weekly Digest: Avian Architecture, snow ecology, conservation handbooks, eTrex and Paramo
New books in stock this week The best of the new arrivals from the last seven days: Avian Architecture: How Birds Design, Engineer and Build Peter Goodfellow A beautifully designed and fascinating book which documents in clear detail many examples of bird nesting styles, with full-colour illustrations and text describing technical details about construction means [...]
NHBS Weekly Digest: Bird Sense, highland mammals, beauty in nature, insects and whales, Elekon and the CB2 Deluxe
New books in stock this week Looking at the very best of the new arrivals from the last seven days: Bird Sense: What it’s Like to be a Bird Tim Birkhead The author of The Wisdom of Birds returns with this thought-provoking exploration of the subjective sense experience of birds. The premise is that there [...]
NHBS Weekly Digest: ferns, tigers, butterflies, Copernicus, Stealth and the BirdMIKE
New books in stock this week Looking at the very best of the new arrivals from the last seven days: Fern Fever: The Story of Pteridomania Sarah Whittingham This wonderful book tells the story of the nineteenth century obsession with ferns, the infinitely various manifestations of which – in the ferneries, the pottery, sculpture and [...]
NHBS Weekly Digest: Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, Carnivore Ecology and Conservation, Pond Dipping Net, Stealth Gear
Looking at the very best of the new arrivals from the last seven days… New Books Birds of the Indian Subcontinent Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp and Tim Inskipp New second edition of the ground-breaking 1998 original, featuring the usual quality of plates and information associated with the Helm Field Guides. Covers India, Pakistian, Sri Lanka, [...]
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