Breeding Waders in Europe 2000

Edited by Ole Thorup

An extensive overview of the present status of breeding waders in Europe. Within the Wader Study Group's project "Breeding Waders in Europe 2000", updated population ....

Field Guide to the Albatrosses, Petrels and Shearwaters of the World

Derek Onley and Paul Scofield

Famous for their size and elegance in flight, albatrosses are familiar to anyone who has travelled through the southern ....

Field Guide to New Zealand Seabirds

Brian Parkinson

Around New Zealand's long coastline and its many islands, the keen observer is able to see more seabirds than in most other countries. Three-quarters of the world's ....

Flight Identification of European Seabirds

Anders Blomdahl, Bertil Breife, Niklas Holmstrom and

Essential field guide for seawatching, whether it be from land or at sea, specifically designed to address the particular problems and limitations of this type of birding. ....

Pelicans, Cormorants and their Relatives

The Pelecaniformes

J Bryan Nelson

One of the jewels in the excellent OUP 'Bird Families of the World' series. ....

Petrels Night and Day

A Sound Approach Guide

Magnus Robb, Killian Mullarney and The Sound Approach

Peter Scott's Coloured Key to the Wildfowl of the World

Peter Scott

In this Key there is a coloured picture of every kind of duck, goose or swan so far known to exist in the world - 245 kinds. The object of the book is to enable anyone, ....

Puffins

Heather Angel

The comical and colourful faces of puffins have earned them the popular name 'clowns of the sea'. On land, they waddle and hop amongst tussocks and rocks to and from their ....

Seabird Numbers and Breeding Success in Britain and Ireland, 2005

RA Mavor, M Parsons, M Heubeck and S Schmitt

This is the seventeenth annual report on the results of seabird monitoring at colonies throughout Britain and Ireland, produced ....

Shorebirds of Australia

Andrew Geering, Lindsay Agnew and Sandra Harding

Brings together the latest information about the behavior and biology of waders and how they are distributed on the Australian coast. Early chapters deal with basic aspects of ....

The Shorebird Guide

Michael O'Brien, Richard Crossley and Kevin Karlson

When many birders go out looking at waders, they see a distant mudflat with grey-brown birds of various shapes and sizes and have no idea where to begin the identification ....

Use of Rice Fields by Migratory Shorebirds in Southern South America / Uso de Arroceras por Chorlos y Playeros Migratorios en el Sur de America del Sur

Daniel W Blanco, Bernabe Lopez-Lanus, Rafael Antunes Dias et al

This publication includes the results of an international project aimed to assess the value of rice fields as non-breeding habitat for migratory shorebirds in southern South ....

Waterbirds Around the World

A global overview of the conservation, management and research of the world's waterbird flyways

Edited by Gerard Boere, Colin Galbraith and David Stroud

Waterbirds are one the world's most attractive group of birds and among the most threatened. These include albatrosses, flamingos, swans, geese, ducks, cranes, waders, ....

Waterfowl Ecology and Management

GA Baldassarre and EG Bolen

Major revision of the first edition, addresses all aspects of North American waterfowl ecology and mangement. The second edition is expanded to 2800 references arrayed across ....

Waterbirds in the UK 2004/05

The Wetland Bird Survey

A Banks, M Collier, G Austin, R Hearn and A Musgrove

The Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) is the monitoring scheme for non-breeding waterbirds in the UK, which aims to provide the principal data for the conservation of their ....