Amazing Birds

A Treasury of Facts and Trivia

Roger Lederer

This beautifully illustrated book is a treasury of facts and information about the avian world. Aimed squarely at ....

Atlas of Bird Migration

Edited by Jonathan Elphick

Traces the world migration routes of over 100 species. An illustrated introduction explains flight techniques, feeding, biology and navigation including the amazing ....

Aucells

Celdoni Fonoll

Following the success of Veus d'ocells (Lynx Edicions, 2000) and 60 OCELLS comuns i rars i de noms singulars (Lynx Edicions, 2002), Celdoni Fonoll offers Aucells, a work which ....

The Audubon Society Guide to Attracting Birds

Creating Natural Habitats for Properties Large and Small

Stephen W Kress

In a book long awaited by North American landscapers, birders, gardeners, and naturalists, Stephen W. Kress provides a practical, comprehensive, and thoroughly ....

Aves da Mata Atlantica / Birds of the Atlantic Forest

Edson Endrigo

Only 10% of the amazing rainforests of the Mata Atlantica in Brazil, stretching along the Atlantic Coast from Urugay to Rio Grande do Norte, and inland as far as ....

Avian Flight

J Videler

Covers all the main aspects of aerial locomotion by birds including sections on the history of bird flight study, aerodynamics, functional morphology, evolution, ....

The Barn Swallow

Angela Turner

The Barn Swallow is a familiar and popular bird, breeding in North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa and wintering in South America, southern Africa, southern Asia and even ....

Bewick's Swan

Eileen Rees

Popular among both birders and the wider public, these elegant birds are among the best-studied waterfowl in the world. In Bewick's Swan, Eileen Rees tells the story of ....

Bill Oddie's Birding Map of Britain and Ireland

Bill Oddie

Unique map which identifies the top 340 birding sites, including all RSPB reserves and additional Wildlife Trusts and Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust sites. ....

Bill Oddie's Introduction to Birdwatching

Bill Oddie

Comprehensive introduction for the birdwatching beginner. Starting with the basics, the guide goes on to explore all aspects, from choosing a field guide, to easy ....

Bird

The Definitive Visual Guide

Edited by Peter Frances et al

Profiling more than 1000 bird species, from dazzling rainforest species to monkey-eating eagles, this is the bird world as never seen before. Produced in association with ....

Birds

Reader's Digest Wild Britain

An authoritative guide to the identification, lifestyles and habitats of Britain's best-loved birds, this pocket reference will help you to appreciate the birds you see ....

Bird

The Definitive Visual Guide

Edited by Peter Frances et al

Profiling more than 1000 bird species, from dazzling rainforest species to monkey-eating eagles, this is the bird world as never seen before. Produced in association with ....

Birds of Africa

A Comprehensive Illustrated Field Guide to the Birds South of the Sahara

Ian Sinclair and Peter Ryan

Describes and illustrates all the birds found in Africa south of the Sahara, including Socotra and islands in the Gulf of Guinea. The guide covers nearly 2100 species and ....

The Birds of Africa, Volume 7

Hilary Fry, Stuart Keith, Emil Urban and Martin Woodcock

The final volume in the magnificent Birds of Africa series, which first appeared 21 years ago. Volume 7 treats the remainder of the passerine families of Africa and its ....

Birds of Brazil

MP3 Sound Collection

Peter Boesman

This MP3-CD contains 1047 recordings in MP3 format of over 1000 Brazilian bird species. ....

Birds of Brazil / Aves do Brasil

An Artistic View / Uma Visao Artística

Tomas Sigrist

Birds of Brazil - An Artistic View, will dazzle ornithologists, nature lovers, conservationists and artists everywhere. This generous 672 page hardback is teeming with ....

Birds of Europe

Version 3

ETI

This revised and updated CD contains detailed descriptions of 447 bird species. Includes colour illustrations, sound recordings of birdcalls, pictures of eggs, video clips, and ....

Birds in a Village

A Century On

Brian Clews and WH Hudson

A century ago, the well-known naturalist W H Hudson was a senior figure in the Royal Society for Protection of Birds with a significant reputation in his field. A Prolific ....

Birds of the World

Recommended English Names

Edited by Frank Gill and Minturn Wright

The product of more than 15 years of discussion, debate and review by a team of international experts sanctioned by the International Ornithological Congress, this book ....

A Century of Parrots

Rosemary Low

A Century of Parrots tells the story of the trappers, the dealers and smugglers, and the collectors who contributed to the decline of so many parrot species; and of the ....

The Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World

James F Clements

Birds have long held a unique dual role as a model group for scientists and as the focus of birders' passionate quests. Despite centuries of observation, each year brings the ....

Collins Birds of the World

The Most Complete Guide to Every Bird Family in the World - Albatrosses to Wrens

Les Beletsky

This stunning book captures the grace and beauty of the world's birds. In more than 500 pages, ornithologist Les Beletsky has gathered over 1,600 original paintings that reveal ....

Collins How to Identify Birds

Nicholas Hammond

A practical beginner's guide to identifying birds. ....

The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds of the World

David Alderton

This book is a comprehensive visual guide and reference source for over 1250 birds of America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Polar regions, with expert analysis of ....

Cooking for Birds

Mark Golley

Bird food recipes, plus cookery tips and helpful hints on what to feed and when. ....

Crow Country

Mark Cocker

Rooks and jackdaws are both members of the same bird family. To ornithologists the group is known as the corvids, to the layperson they are 'crows'. But to Mark Cocker these two ....

The Cuckoos

Robert B Payne

Cuckoos are the most variable birds in social behaviour and parental care. Robert Payne presents a new evolutionary history of the family based on molecular genetics, and uses ....

Extinct Birds of New Zealand

Alan Tennyson

In New Zealand's lush rainforests, isolated from the outside world for 80 million years, many extraordinary birds evolved. They included the giant moa, the beautiful huia, and ....

Flightless Birds

Clive Roots

Covers the loss of flight in birds, both permanently after years of evolution, and temporarily as a result of unusual moulting behaviour, and those species that are in ....

Garden Bird Behaviour

Robert Burton

Explores a wide range of bird behaviour including courtship, territorial behaviour, singing, nesting, foraging, flying, feeding, and migration. The emphasis is on leisurely ....

The Garden Bird Book

Sarah Whittley

Published in association with the British Trust for Ornithology, this superb book is packed with advice on how to make your garden a better place for birds. Information on ....

The Garden Bird Handbook

Stephen Moss

Published in association with the Wildlife Trusts, this book contains practical advice and key information, ranging from planning and maintaining a bird-friendly garden, ....

The Grail Bird

Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

Tim Gallagher

The author takes up the chase of an extinct, or at least elusive bird, heading deep into the trackless Southern swamps and bayous to determine once and for all if the ....

The Greater Flamingo

Alan Johnson and Frank Cezilly

With their curious feeding behaviour, peculiar elongated body, gregarious social lives and exotic pink plumage, flamingos are among the most familiar and popular of all the ....

Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America

Klaus Malling Olsen and Hans Larsson

Covers 43 species of gulls and includes some of the most familiar seabirds as well as some little-known and globally threatened species. Contains comprehensive text with ....

Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World

Eugene M McCarthy

Most extensive collection of information on hybridization in birds to date. ....

Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds: Volume 7

Boatbill to Starlings

Peter Higgins, John Peter and Sid Cowling

The Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds is one of the world's major ornithological projects. This final volume, published in 2 parts, is the culmination of ....

Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds: 7 Volume Set

Edited by Peter Higgins

The Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (HANZAB) is one of the world's major ornithological projects. This seven volume set, realises the vision to ....

Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliot and David A Christie

Contents: Picathartes, Babblers, Parrotbills, Australasian Babblers, Logrunners, Jewel-babblers ....

Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 9: Cotingas to Pipits and Wagtails

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliot and David Christie

Volume 9 of this landmark series deals with species from around the world and continues treatment of the passerines. Covers the following families:Family Cotingidae ....

Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 10: Cuckoo-Shrikes to Thrushes

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliot and David Christie

Another stunning volume on the passerines from all continents. the extraordinary HBW team have redoubled their amazing efforts, and now hope to produce a new HBW volume each ....

Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliot and David Christie

The latest volume in this magnificent series offers in-depth treatment of some of the most attractive and best studied passerines in the world. ....

A History of the Birds of Somerset

David K Ballance

This new Somerset avifauna is the first since 1988. Written in clear, engaging language, it covers the birds of the post-1974 County from the earliest times to the end of 2004, ....

A History of Ornithology

Peter Bircham

Today the RSPB has over one million members, reflecting the huge interest in birdwatching as a hobby. Over the years the growth in amateur birdwatchers has ....

Hummingbirds of Costa Rica

M Fogden and P Fogden

Features 44 of the 45 species of hummers that inhabit Costa Rica. (The Plain-capped starthroat, the missing species, lives only in the highest treetops. The authors have ....

In the Company of Crows and Ravens

John M Marzluff and Tony Angell

From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and ravens ....

Ivorybill Hunters

The Search for Proof in a Flooded Wilderness

Geoffrey E Hill

The last documented sighting of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker--one of the rarest and most intriguing animals in the world--was noted over 50 years ago. Long thought to be ....

Kiwi

The People's Bird

Neville Peat

Back in 1990, when Neville Peat wrote The Incredible Kiwi, the national bird was in retreat, from habitat loss and the severe impact of predation. It was not well ....

Kukila, Volume 13

Edited by Richard Noske

Kukila volume 13 provides all the latest news on birds in Indonesia, with articles on Nusa Tenggara, Gunung Leuser National Park and the Sulawesi Woodcock, a summary of ....

Life on the Wing

Remarkable Birds and their Extraordinary Lifestyles

Brutus Ostling and Magnus Ullman

Illustrated with photographs taken around the world, this book is the first to show the huge range of lifestyles that birds have used to become one of the most successful ....

Lost Land of the Dodo

Anthony Cheke and Julian Hume

The Mascarene islands - Mauritius, Reunion and Rodrigues - were once home to an extraordinary range of birds and reptiles. Evolving in the absence of mammalian ....

On Sparrows and Man

A Love-Hate Relationship

J Denis Summers-Smith

Of all the wild birds, none are more closely associated with man than the sparrows. In this book, his fifth on sparrows, Denis Summers-Smith sets out to explore this ....

Ornithology

Frank B Gill

A comprehensive and balanced synthesis of the extensive research in the field, it provides the reader with thorough coverage of the form, function and behaviour of birds ....

Ornitologia Italiana, Volume 3: Stercorariidae - Picidae

Pierandrea Brichetti and Giancarlo Fracasso

Third volume in a major Italian avifauna, which provides full information by species on biometry, identification, distribution, habitat, reproduction, migration and ....

Parrot

Paul Carter

Excellent cultural history of the parrot in the Reaktion 'Animal' series. ....

Parrots of the World

An Identification Guide

Joseph Forshaw and Frank Knight

New parrot identification guide, not to be confused with Forshaw's earlier `Parrots of the World', first published by David & Charles in 1978. This new book, as the subtitle ....

Peacock

Christine E Jackson

People in most countries are familiar with the blue peacock. It is one of the very few bird species that will tolerate a person standing within a few feet of it, and appears ....

Pelicans, Cormorants and their Relatives

The Pelecaniformes

J Bryan Nelson

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

Philip's Birds of the World

Edited by Andrew Gosler

"Philip's Photographic Guide to Birds of the World" features 1,300 individual bird species, making it the most comprehensive single-volume photographic collection of birds ....

Philip's Guide to Birds of Britain and Europe

Lars Svensson and Hakan Delin

A rapid identification guide to more than 500 species of resident and regular migrant birds in compact, pocket-sized format for use in the field. ....

A Photographic Guide to the Nightjars of the World

Nigel Cleere

Includes all nightjars, pootoos, frogmouths, oilbirds and owlet-nightjars. ....

The Pocket Guide to Scilly Birds

Nigel Hudson and Danni Borrett

A photographic guide to the birds of the Scilly Isles, which boast the largest list of species for any location in Europe. This book covers 104 of the most common species, ....

The Private Life of Birds

Stephen Moss

Why is the Red-backed Shrike nicknamed "the butcher bird"? When and why do the Birds of Paradise of New Guinea turn themselves upside down while hanging on a twig? Which birds ....

Raptors of the World

James Ferguson-Lees, David Christie, Philip Burton, Kim Franklin and David Mead

One of the most eagerly awaited identification guides, covering all the world's 313 species. Each species is illustrated by adult, juvenile and selected immature ....

Remarkable Birds

Stephen Moss

A celebration of the world's favourite birds, as chosen by the general public, including the most glamorous and gorgeous birds, from penguins to hummingbirds. Through a web-site ....

RSPB Birdwatching

A Complete Guide to Observing British and European Birdlife

Rob Hume

A practical guide to birdwatching in Britain and Europe. Features profiles of all the most commonly seen British and European species; Lists the best birdwatching sites ....

RSPB Birds of Britain and Europe

Rob Hume

Fully revised and updated edition of this popular field guide. ....

RSPB Complete Birds of Britain and Europe

Rob Hume

This definitive guide uses the highest quality close-up photography to bring over 500 species vividly to life on the page, capturing the individual beauty and detail of every ....

RSPB Handbook of British Birds

Peter Holden and Tim Cleeves

This is a completely revised and updated edition of the best selling RSPB Handbook of British Birds. This unique guide provides a `biography' of each of the 300 commonest ....

RSPB Pocket Garden Birdwatch

Mark Ward

Find out how to identify birds and learn about their behaviour, from territorial disputes to courtship, with this pocket-sized guide. Discover which plants, feed and ....

SASOL Birds - the Inside Story

Bird Biology and Behaviour in Southern Africa

Rael Loon and Helene Loon

Illustrated introduction to bird biology and behaviour in the Southern African region. ....

Secret Lives of British Birds

Dominic Couzens

Following the bestselling Secret Lives of Garden Birds, this trip around Britain's principal habitats exposes the extraordinary hidden world of some of our most familiar ....

Tawny Frogmouth

Gisela Kaplan

The first complete overview of one of Australia's most intriguing birds. The strange tawny frogmouth is often thought to be a species of owl, but it is, in fact, related to ....

Tony Soper's Bird Table Book

The Complete Guide to Attracting Birds and Other Wildlife to Your Garden

Tony Soper

All-new edition of this classic work, with completely revised text and brand new illustrations. This book covers everything you need to know about attracting wild birds ....

The Ultimate Birdfeeder Handbook

John A Burton and Steve Young

Provides all the information needed to successfully attract and feed birds in your outdoor space - whatever the size. This book is packed with information on the different ....

Woodpeckers of Europe

A Study of the European Picidae

Gerard Gorman

A personal and well researched account of the European Picidae through the author's lifetime study of these fascinating birds. The book covers all aspects of the natural ....