Bird watchers everywhere dream of a landscape filled with berry-laden branches, nesting spots among twining vines, and birds crowding their feeding stations.
Let Chris Packham s passion for birdwatching ignite your own birdwatching journey Wherever we live, we may encounter birds every day, but while we may see them, many of us don t take the time to look, and while we might hear them, we might not listen.
Covering 65 domestic breeds of ducks, geese, guineafowl, quail, turkeys and peafowl, the book gives an insight into the individual personalities and attributes of each kind of bird.
The Status of Seabirds in Britain and Ireland book presents the most up-to-date information available on these seabird populations, their numbers and distribution, and their changing fortunes in recent years.
As ice retreated from Britain 15,000 years ago, a host of large mammals including reindeer, wild horses, wooly mammoths, moose, wolves, brown bears, lynxes and wolverines established itself in Britain.
This vintage book contains a detailed guide to nests and eggs of British nesting birds, with detailed descriptions of nests, eggs, and where to look for them.
Through a hundred short vignettes accompanied by stunning avian portraits, Bird Brains takes a look at the antics, behaviors, and idiosyncrasies of wild birds from the viewpoint of a professional wildlife biologist and award-winning wildlife photographer.
The Lapwing once had many regional names; the Loon has a British-American identity crisis and the respectable-sounding Apostlebird is often called a Lousy Jack.
Conor Mark Jameson has spent most of his life exploring the natural environment and communicating his enthusiasm for it to family, friends and, more recently, readers of a range of newspapers and magazines.
A Guide to the Identification and Natural History of the Sparrows of the United States and Canada provides comprehensive information on all the features that make possible identification of all 62 species of sparrows that occur in North America.
The first field guide to all of the world's major land habitats-richly illustrated and packed with essential information to help you get the most out of your outdoor adventuresAccurately identifying and understanding habitats in detail is essential to any birder, naturalist, outdoor enthusiast, or ecologist who wants to get the most out of their experiences in the field.
At the center of Stefan Bargheer's account of bird watching, field ornithology, and nature conservation in Britain and Germany stands the question of how values change over time and how individuals develop moral commitments.
This antiquarian book constitutes one volume of a detailed and useful guide to falconry, and includes information on kite hawking, hare hawking, merlins, management, lark hawking, the hobby, the lanner, sport in India, and other related issues.
The definitive guide to the birds of PakistanPakistan has a rich diversity of bird habitats, from the dry alpine and moist temperate forests of the western Himalayas to the deserts of Baluchistan and Sind.
The ultimate field guide to the birds of the Middle East, an indispensable companion for any traveller to the region The Middle East the region stretching from Cyprus and the Levant to Iran, including Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula, plus Socotra has a wonderfully broad and diverse avifauna, featuring a host of wintering and passage migrants, enigmatic breeders, and even a few endemics that occur nowhere else.
Birding Indonesia is a concise field guide to bird-watching in IndonesiaThe Indonesian archipelago contains 17% of the world's bird species, of which 381 are found nowhere else on earth.
A groundbreaking and accessible field guide to the birds of Britain and IrelandThis guide is a celebration of the beauty of birds and the British and Irish countryside.
Schon in den Jugendjahren faszinierten den Autoren und Fotografen Hugo Hufschmid die englischen Naturforscher Charles Darwin und Alfred Russel Wallace, aber auch die beiden Basler Prof.
The warbling and carolling of the Australian magpie are familiar to many although few of us recognise that it ranks among the foremost songbirds of the world.
Through a hundred short vignettes accompanied by stunning avian portraits, Bird Brains takes a look at the antics, behaviors, and idiosyncrasies of wild birds from the viewpoint of a professional wildlife biologist and award-winning wildlife photographer.
A groundbreaking two-volume illustrated reference book covering all of Europe's birdsWould you like to be able to identify any bird species in Europe, in all plumages, in every season?
A comprehensive field guide to the birds of Western AfricaThis field guide covers the avifauna of 23 countries, from Senegal and southern Mauritania east to Chad and the Central African Republic, and south to Congo.
Identify migratory birds with this book, containing detailed text on flight and contact calls, annotated sonograms and QR codes to the calls themselves.
True life essays that show how a son’s connection with birds helped him reconnect with his mother, from the ornithologist and author of Kingbird Highway.
This antiquarian book constitutes one volume of a detailed and useful guide to falconry, and includes information on celebrated falconers and falconers' clubs.
