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Best of Summer at NHBS showcases over 1000 highlights from our great range of books and products - with over 50% of books at up to 30% off, and discounts of up to 25% on many equipment items. This is the essential selection for naturalists, all in one place, from now until mid September.
Have a look at the highlights for Birds, Bugs, Field Guides, and Natural History.
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In this edition: Reintroductions are in the news lately with the launch of the Rewilding Britain campaign website. Read our feature on Beavers in Britain with two recommended books and an interview with ecologist Derek Gow.
Other highlights: a major new Collins field guide, and Inglorious, Mark Avery's forthright case for a ban on driven grouse shooting; an interview with Jack Skuse of Ambios Ltd, educational charity and NHBS supplier, and our guide to hand nets; and don't miss this edition's equipment highlight, the Reconyx HyperFire HC600, the make of trail camera hacked by researchers in the Malay Peninsula studying melanistic leopards.
Leon’s Bookshelf features the usual round up of new arrivals and recently catalogued books, while we stay with the hand net theme with a list of essential aquatic sampling kit in Luanne’s Kit Bag.
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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 list our top ten kit essentials for aquatic sampling, including nets, pots and waders.
Browse Luanne's Kit Bag
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Collins Field Guide to the Birds of South America: Passerines: From Sapayoa to Finches
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The new Collins Field Guide to the Birds of South America: Passerines: From Sapayoa to Finches identifies nearly 2000 species of passerine, to be found south of Panama. Features full-colour plates, situated opposite concise and informative text pages. All plumages are illustrated and there are distribution maps for each species.
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We recommend these two books on the hot topic of beavers in Britain, plus read an interview with ecologist Derek Gow who has substantial experience with beaver reintroduction trials in Devon and Tayside.
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The Eurasian Beaver is devised to favourably inform the debate about beaver reintroduction by providing the facts about this species once lost to Britain, but now on the verge of a comeback. Covers biology, behaviour and ecology, and has a wide audience from amateur naturalists to ecologists working on reintroductions.
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Two new books from Mark Avery
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With 25 years of experience in bird conservation in Britain, natural history writer Mark Avery is not afraid to advocate for wildlife. Popular and outspoken, his behind-the-scenes knowledge of the politics and the people is amply demonstrated by his latest two books, out now.
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In Inglorious: Conflict in the Uplands, Avery makes his case for an outright ban on driven grouse shooting. The cost is high for wildlife, particularly the hen harrier, and the ecology of the landscape of the north of England.
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Rewilding Britain website launched
Rewilding Britain is a new campaign which "aims to restore nature and reintroduce missing species such as wild boar, lynx, pelicans and other species." The campaign website launched earlier this month, and the organisation hopes to inform a wide audience about the benefits of rewilding, and to build a movement which will push for reintroductions of key species which have become extinct or extremely rare in Britain.
Offical protection for Paraguayan forest
Part of the San Rafael National Park has been protected by the efforts of BirdLife Partner Guyra Paraguay, who have bought part of the land and donated it to the Paraguayan government. The sub-tropical forest reserve is home to 430 species of bird, 61 mammals, and hundreds of other species including 3 reptiles new to science discovered in 2006.
Spotting leopards using camera hack
Melanistic Malay leopards are hard to tell apart. But ingenious researchers from James Cook University, Australia have discovered a workaround. Adapted camera traps whose infrared flash is triggered in daylight reveal clear images of the all-black animals' hidden spots - leading to a 94% individual identification rate.
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Our catalogue editor's picks from the new books at NHBS
Important arrivals at the warehouse:
Important titles catalogued:
- The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History (Paperback due March 2016)
- The Evolution of the Eye (Due January 2016)
- Plantations and Protected Areas: A Global History of Forest Management (Due January 2016)
- Britain's Treasure Islands: A Journey to the UK Overseas Territories (Due January 2016)
- Britain's Treasure Islands: A Journey to the UK Overseas Territories [Collector's Edition] (Due January 2016)
- Wildlife and Wind Farms, Volume 1: Onshore: Conflicts and solutions (Due January 2016)
- Green Capital: A New Perspective on Growth (Due November 2015)
- Vogels Kijken in de Extremadura [Watching Birds in Extremadura] (Due November 2015)
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 25 (Due October 2015)
- Natural Histories (Due October 2015)
- The Handbook of Bird Families (Due October 2015)
- The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names (Paperback due October 2015)
- Coastlines: The Story of Our Shore (Paperback due October 2015)
- The Marine World: A Natural History of Ocean Life (Due September 2015)
- The Essential Guide to Beachcombing and the Strandline (Due September 2015)
- Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science (Due September 2015)
- Approaches to Plant Evolutionary Ecology (Due September 2015)
- Evolution: The Whole Story (Due September 2015)
- Meadows: A History and Natural History (Due September 2015)
- The Rabbit (Due September 2015)
- Distribution Atlas of European Butterflies and Skippers (Third edition due September 2015)
- Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene: An Emerging Paradigm (Due September 2015)
- A Message from Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Why it Still Matters (Paperback due September 2015)
- Plants of the Klein Karoo (Second edition due August 2015)
- Guide to the Birds of Honduras (Due August 2015)
- Zwijgzame Natuur [Taciturn Nature] (Due August 2015)
- 1000 Českých a Slovenských Hub [1000 Czech and Slovak Mushrooms] (Due July 2015)
- Icones Insectorum Europae Centralis: Nemonychidae, Attelabidae [English / Czech] (Available now)
- Bibliographie des Lépidoptères de France (1593-2010) [Bibliography of the Lepidoptera of France] (3-Volume Set) (Available now)
- Faune de France, Volume 97: Criquets de France, Volume 1, fascicule A et B (Orthoptera: Caelifera) (2-Volume Set) (Available now)
- La Nature Méditerranéenne en France [Mediterranean Nature in France] (Available now)
- Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico: Distribution, Ecology, Paleoecology (Second edition available now)
- Atlas de los Coleópteros Acuáticos de España Peninsular [Atlas of Aquatic Coleoptera of Mainland Spain] (Available now)
- Flora Iranica, Volume 180: Scrophulariaceae II, Antirrhineae (Available now)
- Flora Iranica, Volume 181: Simaroubaceae (Available now)
- Chauves-Souris d'Europe [Bats of Europe]: Connaître, Identifier, Protéger (Available now)
- Atlas des Orchidées de Normandie (Available now)
- Animal Vigilance: Monitoring Predators and Competitors (Available now)
- Living on the Edge of Extinction in Europe: Proceedings of the First European Whinchat Symposium / Tagungsband zum 1. Europäischen Braunkehlchen Symposium (Second edition available now)
- Solitary Wasps (Second edition digital reprint available now)
- Hoverflies (Second edition digital reprint available now)
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New product listings and range highlights from the NHBS Equipment Team
Essential kit for aquatic sampling
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