Expand your bird knowledge with this gorgeous encyclopedia of nearly 400 bird species around the world, unique for its inclusion of both their physical and mythological characteristics.
'A beautiful book' Tim Birkhead, author of Bird Sense'The prose is sublime, and so is the intelligence behind it' Bel Mooney, Daily MailThe extraordinary world of birds has the power to change lives, as it did the author's.
Continuing the tradition of parodying all things sacred, the author of The XXXX Files and PMT takes up the reigns of satire by rewriting the essential 1970s hippy handbook Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
An enthralling voyage of discovery to meet a rare and mysterious bird of prey that puzzled Darwin, fascinates modern-day falconers, and carries secrets of our planet's deep past in its family history.
A uniquely personal meditation on Britain's gulls by one of today's leading wildlife writersFrom a distance, gulls are beautiful symbols of freedom over the oceanic wilderness.
In this beautiful follow-up to Our Garden Birds, Our Songbirds and Our Woodland Birds, street artist Matt Sewell captures the world s most evocative bird: the owl.
This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to falconry, with information on breeding, selection, training, general care and management, and much more.
This is a classic guide to incubating and brooding ducks, being a collection of carefully-selected articles dealing with such subjects as incubating, hatching, caring for young, and much more.
This antiquarian volume comprises a complete guide to exhibiting and showing budgerigars, including tips on exhibition cages, breeding winners, preparing and washing your budgerigar, and a guide to judging and the points systems.
This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to the art of hawking, with information on training, game-hawking, equipment, care and management, nutrition, handling, history, and much more.
Contained within the pages of this book is an interesting and insightful guide to pheasant hunting, containing tips and techniques employed in the fields by some of the finest hunters of the time.
This book was written for the budgerigar fancier to help them gain an understanding of the principles underlying the successful keeping of budgerigars or shell parakeets.
This antique text contains a detailed handbook pertaining to the proper care and management of budgerigars in captivity, including information on housing, diet, breeding, colour production, and training.
This text contains a complete yet concise treatise on owning parakeets for beginner and advanced breeders, covering every aspect of their keeping from breeding to training, and everything in between.
First published in 1947, "e;The Science of Bird nesting"e; is a comprehensive guide to the wild birds of England, with ornithological notes and hints on nest finding.