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NHBS Best of Spring 2016 features over 300 products with discounts of up to 33% on a wide range of items. You'll find this season's best new field guides and nature writing, and classics from our range, plus a collection of our bestselling kit for wildlife enthusiasts and professionals - including nest boxes, trail cameras, microscopes and GPS.
Browse Best of Spring highlights: Books and Equipment.
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In this edition: A new handbook on floodplain meadows is essential reading for land managers, policy makers and conservation professionals. The restoration and protection of these vital environmental resources is the focus of the Floodplain Meadows Partnership who have produced the handbook.
Other highlights: The Marine World is an intriguing exposition of ocean life in all its forms; Leon reviews a new biological study of seeds; engage young scientists with this range of educational products available from NHBS; new books on grasses, equids and The Mammals of Luzon Island; and Water Bugs of Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia provides a fascinating illustrated study.
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Leon's selection of new arrivals at the warehouse & important new titles catalogued.
Browse Leon's Bookshelf
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In this edition we have an educational theme with a range of engaging gadgets for budding scientists.
Browse Luanne's Kit Bag
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New floodplain meadows handbook
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Floodplain Meadows – Beauty and Utility: A Technical Handbook provides a timely and thorough overview of these important species-rich habitats which are in serious decline yet provide substantial benefits to biodiversity and human society. This handbook will be of interest to ecologists, land managers and restoration practitioners, along with rural historians interested in agricultural heritage.
Produced by the Floodplain Meadow Partnership, the book is published by NatureBureau - an innovative ecological consultancy and design and publishing company whose diverse list includes some of the most informative reference books on British and Irish Wildlife of recent years.
Also available from NatureBureau:
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The Marine World:
A Natural History of Ocean Life
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The Marine World: A Natural History of Ocean Life is an all-encompassing voyage through the life that flourishes on all scales, and through all types of habitat, in the marine environment. Bacteria, whales, marine flora, birds, fish and more feature in this visual feast for anyone interested in, or involved with, the life of the sea.
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Wind change heralds return of swifts
The RSPB reports on the return of swifts to UK skies after a change in wind direction brings the spring migrants here in pursuit of their insect food source. Although swift populations reach 90,000 migrant pairs, they are amber-listed and in decline. We recommend supporting them with specially-designed swift boxes.
Corvid co-operation
Co-operative breeding is common in the crow family, with 40% of species known to raise young in family groups where members take the role of helper to the nesting females. A new study looks at the influence of food availability on the appearance of this trait, with a focus on European carrion crows.
"Durrell disciple" wins conservation prize
Prof Carl Jones, who worked closely with Gerald Durrell and is chief scientist of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, will be awarded the £170,000 2016 Indianapolis Prize in London. Prof Jones, from Carmarthen, Wales has worked to save many species from the brink of extinction - including the pink pigeon and echo parakeet during 40 years of work in Mauritius.
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Our catalogue editor's picks from the new books at NHBS
Important arrivals at the warehouse:
- Floodplain Meadows – Beauty and Utility: A Technical Handbook
- A Field Guide to Grasses, Sedges and Rushes
- The Natural History of the Hedgerow: And Ditches, Dykes and Dry Stone Walls
- Birds of New Guinea: Distribution, Taxonomy, and Systematics
- The Bird Species / Die Vogelarten, Volume 2: Podicipediformes, Phoenicopteriformes, Mesitornithiformes, Pterocliformes, Columbiformes: An Annotated Checklist / Eine Kommentierte Liste
- History Of Ornithology In Malta
- Discover Shetland's Birds: A Photographic Guide to Shetland's Breeding, Wintering and Migrant Birds (Paperback)
- Snowbird: Integrative Biology and Evolutionary Diversity in the Junco
- The Extraordinary Beauty of Birds: Designs, Patterns and Details
- Wild Equids: Ecology, Management, and Conservation
- The Mammals of Luzon Island: Biogeography and Natural History of a Philippine Fauna
- Costa Rican Ecosystems
- The Marine World: A Natural History of Ocean Life
- Fishes of the World (Fifth edition)
- The Sharks of Sri Lanka
- Whales' Bones of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands
- Pocket Guide to Wildflower Families
- Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies
- Lycaenidae Part 2 (Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region): Subfamily Theclinae, Tribe Eumaeini (partim): Satyrium, Superflua, Armenia, Neolycaena, Rhymnaria (Second edition)
- The Sting of the Wild: The Story of the Man Who Got Stung for Science
- Dragonflies & Damselflies of Gloucestershire: Their Distribution and Status
- The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia
- The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life (Second edition)
- Walking Through Spring: An English Journey
Important titles catalogued:
- The Role of Collections in Ornithology: The Extended Specimen (November 2016)
- Terrestrial Gamebirds & Snipes of Africa: Guineafowls, Francolins, Spurfowls, Quails, Sandgrouse & Snipes (October 2016)
- Sociality in Bats (October 2016)
- Trees: A Complete Guide to Their Biology and Structure (October 2016)
- Milk: The Biology of Lactation (October 2016)
- Birds of Stone: Chinese Avian Fossils from the Age of Dinosaurs (October 2016)
- The Sauropod Dinosaurs: Life in the Age of Giants (October 2016)
- The Masters of Nature Photography, Volume Two: Wildlife Photographer of the Year (September 2016)
- The Lycopods and Ferns of the Drakensberg and Lesotho (September 2016)
- Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved (September 2016)
- Skeletons: The Extraordinary Form and Function of Bones (August 2016)
- Plant Biodiversity: Monitoring, Assessment and Conservation (August 2016)
- An Introduction to Disturbance Ecology: A Road Map for Wildlife Management and Conservation (August 2016)
- Colour and Vision: Through the Eyes of Nature (July 2016)
- Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies (Paperback, July 2016)
- What's Really Happening to Our Planet?: The Facts Simply Explained (June 2016)
- 22 Ideas That Saved the English Countryside (June 2016)
- The Grey Squirrel Management Handbook (May 2016)
- Plant Identification for Phase 1 Habitat Survey (May 2016)
- Digital Curation: A How-to-Do-it Manual (Second edition, May 2016)
- Atlas of Weed Mapping (Available to order)
- Flore du Gabon, Vols 46, 47 & 48 (Available to order)
- Flora of the Guianas, Series A: Meliaceae (Available to order)
- Flora of Iraq, Volume 5, Part 1: Elatinaceae to Sphenocleaceae (Available to order)
- Suomen Lukit ja Valeskorpionit [Finnish Harvestmen and Pseudoscorpions] (Available to order)
- Audubon: America's Greatest Naturalist and His Voyage of Discovery to Labrador (Available to order)
- Water Bugs of Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia (Available to order)
- Atlas Flora Danica [Danish] (3-Volume Set) (Available to order)
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New product listings and range highlights from the NHBS Equipment Team
Educational kit for young scientists:
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Cetacean Paleobiology
Cetacean fossil history extends back more than 50 million years, and recent studies have brought new insights into their evolution. Cetacean Paleobiology summarises our current understanding of this distinct mammalian lineage.
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Next chance to meet NHBS in 2016
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