Birds and Wind Farms

Bird: The Definitive Visual Guide

Speciation in Birds

Birds of Peru

The Birds of Scotland

A History of Ornithology

Dear customers,

Welcome to the NHBS Ornithology Catalogue for birdwatchers, conservationists and ecologists. We present a round up of new and bestselling titles, along with a preview of the best forthcoming books. We are particularly excited about Helm's recently published field guides, such as Birds of Costa Rica and many more fantastic field guides due soon, including Peru and Pakistan. There are new titles covering emerging birding regions, a good example being The Birds of Kazakhstan, which makes this fascinating and undiscovered country more accessible. In the UK, Liverpool University have just published the outstanding Manx Bird Atlas, while the intriguing island of Skomer is wonderfully portrayed by Welsh publishers Graffeg. Poyser continue their superb series of monographs with one of Britain's best-known birds, the Lapwing.

The Stationery Office has published two valuable new titles for bird ecologists: Raptors: A Field Guide to Survey and Monitoring and Waterbirds Around the World, both essential and practical references for the monitoring and conservation of avifauna. We also recommend Feathers: Identification for Bird Conservation, a unique publication enabling species identification from feathers alone.

We hope you enjoy browsing through our catalogue. For our full selection of nearly 7,000 ornithology titles, visit our website www.nhbs.com This is a selection from over 100,000 titles in wildlife, science and conservation, orderable online, by email, fax, telephone or in writing. To stay informed about all the latest publications, sign up for our free monthly email catalogue, listing up to 500 new titles every month, by e-mailing subscribe@nhbs.co.uk. Libraries & Organisations can also receive discounts on our titles: please contact customer.services@nhbs.co.uk to find out more or set up a library account.

Dr Nigel Massen

Managing Director

Using the Ornithology Catalogue

Now that NHBS Catalogues are online there are many ways to access the title information that you need.
You can browse through the subject pages online.
You can view, save and print the complete Ornithology Catalogue as a single 1.5 mb .pdf document.
Each subject category has an Editor's Choice selection.
Items from this catalogue can be ordered online whilst browsing, ordered over the phone, by email, or by printing out an order form and posting us your order.

Editor's Choice

The Editor's Choice is our selection of the key titles in each subject area. This selection includes classic reads and major new titles.

Meet NHBS at Conferences

This year NHBS Environment Bookstore will be setting up shop at academic and professional conferences near you:

• International Association of Landscape Ecology, (July, Netherlands)
• International Association for Vegetation Science, (July, Wales)
• Ento07: National Meeting and Symposium of the Royal Entomological Society, (July, Scotland)
• British Birdfair, (August, England)
• Society for Evolutionary Biology (August, Sweden)
• Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, (November, England)

More to be confirmed: check our Conference page for updates

Supporting Conservation

NHBS is involved in supporting conservation at many levels - we consider this a key part of what we do and how we interact with conservation bodies and non-commercial publishers.

Gratis Books
Working in close collaboration with Professor William Sutherland at the University of East Anglia, we have distributed copies of his Conservation Handbook and Bird Ecology & Conservation to people working in science and conservation in developing countries. The next title to be offered is Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems.

"Thanks a million for your thoughtfulness. I received the Conservation Handbook. It is very useful to my project. Once again thank you very much and may the good God bless us all as we strive to make the environment a better place to live." J Grody Dorbor, Liberia

World Land Trust
The Books for Conservation programme is an exciting partnership between the World Land Trust and NHBS. From simple beginnings in 2002 when we donated surplus books to the WLT, this programme has developed into an important resource for struggling NGOs throughout the world. To date NHBS have donated hundreds of books to this WLT donation programme.