Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest

Originally published in 1933.

This antiquarian book contains a complete guide to keeping roller canaries, and includes information on their history, breeding, training, and management.

Widowhood is not easy, as those who decry it are only too willing to say, but neither is it hard.

This vintage book contains a concise and novice-friendly guide to budgerigars and cockatiels, being a practical handbook on how to keep, feed, and breed them.

In this beautiful gift edition, pop-art street artist Matt Sewell offers his own unique take on 52 of our favourite British garden birds.

Each year, hundreds of people set out across North America determined to set a new record in a spectacularly competitive event.

Falconry was a major part of historical culture and lifestyle across the world and throughout history.

Imagine a jazz musician, improvising on a theme.

Imagine a jazz musician, improvising on a theme.

For centuries, the Tower of London has been home to a group of famous avian residents: the ravens.

A Yale-educated professor of biology and a GG finalist for Silence of the Songbirds, Bridget Stutchbury roams forests studying the social lives and sexual antics of birds, sharing with us the curious reasons for their strange behaviour, bright colouring and elaborate songs.

Sasol First Field Guide to Common Birds of Southern Africa provides fascinating insight into the birdlife of the region.

Sasol First Field Guide to Common Birds of Southern Africa provides fascinating insight into the birdlife of the region.

Gamebirds have been utilized since prehistoric times for both food and sport.

Gamebirds have been utilized since prehistoric times for both food and sport.

This clear, concise book offers a down-to-earth system for newcomers to the field of birding, using a proven formula that remains valid even among experienced birders.

This clear, concise book offers a down-to-earth system for newcomers to the field of birding, using a proven formula that remains valid even among experienced birders.

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.

A richly illustrated field guide to all of North America's major habitatspacked with invaluable information to help you get the most out of your outdoor adventuresWhether you're a birder, naturalist, outdoor enthusiast, or ecologist, knowing the surrounding habitat is essential to getting the most out of your experiences in the field.

From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea where the sea blazes with oil flares, across two continents and fourteen countries - this epic journey is nothing to swallows, they do it twice a year.

Birds of Prey of the West and its companion volume, Birds of Prey of the East, are the most comprehensive and authoritative field guides to North American birds of prey ever published.

'Birkhead has combined ingenuity and perseverance to produce an evocative portrait of a great pioneer in the scientific study of birds' Literary ReviewFrancis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.

Peep awakes one morning to the sound of a beautiful song - but where is it coming from?

What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour?

The essential field guide to the raptors of Mexico and Central AmericaRaptors are among the most challenging birds to identify in the field due to their bewildering variability of plumage, flight silhouettes, and behavior.

The lives and activities of seabirds as you've never seen them beforeSeabirds evoke the spirit of the earth's wildest places.

An authoritative guide covering the best birdwatching sites in Britain.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Mandarin Duck, one of the largest and best-studied is in southern England.

Somalia, with seven endemic species, is one of the most important bird areas in Africa; it is also one of the least well-known.

Throughout the bird world, examples of strange and seemingly inexplicable behaviours abound.

Throughout the bird world, examples of strange and seemingly inexplicable behaviours abound.

ONE OF THE BB/BTO BEST BIRD BOOKS OF THE YEAR, 2018This book represents the definitive photographic guide to gulls, by the world's greatest authority on gull identification.

ONE OF THE BB/BTO BEST BIRD BOOKS OF THE YEAR, 2018This book represents the definitive photographic guide to gulls, by the world's greatest authority on gull identification.

This is the first volume in the Birds of Africa series, covering the rich avifauna of the world's second largest continent.

With a rich avifauna of more than 300 species, the three islands that make up the Cayman Islands - Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac - form an increasingly popular birding destination.

A comprehensive guide to the birds of northern India.

A comprehensive guide to the birds of northern India.

A gripping tale on the trail of a most mysterious and charismatic bird.

An intimate photographic and pen portrait of one of the world's favourite birds.

A comprehensive monograph of the beautiful Snowy Owl, famed for its elegant, all-white plumage.

A comprehensive monograph of the beautiful Snowy Owl, famed for its elegant, all-white plumage.

A comprehensive monograph on the Atlantic Puffin.

A comprehensive monograph on the Atlantic Puffin.

A highly readable review of some 700 years of avian exploitation.

A highly readable review of some 700 years of avian exploitation.

American scientist and author Rachel Carson is said to have sparked the modern day environmental movement with the publication of Silent Spring in 1962.

A monograph of the Common Eider, a large and familiar duck with a long and fascinating cultural history.