Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest

This groundbreaking book fills a large hole in the literature for one of the most diverse and least known areas of Africa.

A comprehensive guide to pelagic birds the albatrosses, petrels, shearwaters, storm-petrels and diving petrels.

RSPB Spotlight: Ospreys is packed with eye-catching, informative colour photos, and features succinct, detailed text written by a knowledgeable naturalist.

Even if you are an enthusiastic bird watcher, the details of how birds fly, why they behave as they do, how they breed and their extraordinary travels can seem very mysterious.

A spectacular and lavish photographic guide to the birds of Japan, Korea, north-east China and the Russian Far East.

Birds: ID Insights is ideal for birders of all levels.

In this book, an ornithologist and a forester have combined their skills to try and tease out the real facts behind the various arguments on forestry.

The Manx Shearwater ranks amongst the world's most evocative seabirds.

BB/BTO BIRD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'This long-awaited update to the acclaimed first edition is the definitive guide to a complex and intriguing family.

Dr Janet Kear, Assistant Director of the Wildfowl Trust and Curator of its Martin Mere Reserve, and Professor Andrew Berger of the University of Hawaii, have written a timely and absorbing account of the recent history of the Hawaiian Goose, or Nene, its descent to near extinction, its eleventh hour rescue and current restoration to the wild.

The landscape of Britain has been irreversibly changed over the last century.

This RSPB-endorsed book answers all those burning questions about birds that beginners and experts alike may ask themselves as they go about their birding.

Avian Biology, Volume VI is a compendium of papers that deals with selected aspects of avian biology.

An authoritative and entertaining exploration of Australia’s distinctive birds and their unheralded role in global evolution Renowned for its gallery of unusual mammals, Australia is also a land of extraordinary birds.

A comprehensive field guide to birds of the Canary IslandsThis guide covers all bird species found in the Canary Islands, a group of beautiful islands that are home to endemics such as the Blue Chaffinch and Canary Islands Stonechat, and are also one of the best places in the world to see a number of species that are scarce or hard to find elsewhere, such as Houbara Bustard and Cream-coloured Courser.

Raptors are formally classified into five families and include birds-such as eagles, ospreys, kites, true hawks, buzzards, harriers, vultures, and falcons-that are familiar and recognized by many observers.

This is the ultimate identification guide to the nightjars, potoos, frogmouths, Oilbird, and owlet-nightjars of the world.

As the first four-legged vertebrates, called tetrapods, crept up along the shores of ancient primordial seas, feeding was among the most paramount of their concerns.

The best guide to the birds of Peru-now in a revised paperback editionBirds of Peru is the most complete and authoritative field guide to this diverse, neotropical landscape.

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATIONWinner of the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary Prize splendid Guardian visionary New StatesmanRebirding takes the long view of Britain s wildlife decline, from the early taming of our landscape and its long-lost elephants and rhinos, to fenland drainage, the removal of cornerstone species such as wild cattle, horses, beavers and boar and forward in time to the intensification of our modern landscapes and the collapse of invertebrate populations.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the world's herons.

This volume is dedicated to the field identification of pigeons and doves, and it incorporates much recent information on the family.

Ramble through the varied habitats and remarkable scenery of Alabama and Mississippi with this terrific birding location guide.

The Broads discusses the history of the Broads, the people who come into contact with and influence these waterways, and what the future holds.

A detailed monograph on an iconic bird of tropical wetlands around the world, the flamingo.

'A superb account of the ecology and behaviour of two declining bird species whose lives are intimately shaped by their woodland habitats.

A heavily designed and stunning look at the many birds of the sky--perfect for fans of Botanicum.

Robins is packed with eye-catching, informative colour photos and succinct, detailed text written by a knowledgeable expert.

What did we know about birds a thousand years ago, and how has our understanding developed?

A stunningly illustrated guide to the wonderful world of hummingbirdsWith their glorious colors, glittering iridescence, astonishing powers of flight, and many characteristics unique in the world of birds, hummingbirds are extraordinary-true jewels of nature.

A marvelously illustrated A-to-Z compendium of bird names from around the globeThe Bird Name Book is an alphabetical reference book on the origins and meanings of common group bird names, from "e;accentor"e; to "e;zeledonia.

For the first time, the complete collection of the Collins Field Guides' incredibly detailed, accurate and beautiful bird paintings has been brought together in one comprehensive volume.

The inspiring story of a young ornithologist who reintroduced puffins where none had been seen for a century   Project Puffin is the inspiring story of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast.

A summary of information on 154 species of duck, geese and swans of the world intended as an identification manual for the wildfowl enthusiast that goes beyond a regional basis and is light enough to be used as a handy reference book in the field.

This vintage book constitutes one volume of a detailed and useful guide to falconry, and includes information on the care and management of falcons and related birds.

This is the first comprehensive field guide dealing exclusively with the birds of this spectacular region.

This authoritative work of reference gives a detailed assessment of the status and distribution of every species on the British and Irish lists, for the first time since 1971.

The 83 species featured in this book, in date sequence of discovery, had not been recorded in Britain or Ireland before 1946.

A birdsong expert's poignant and beautifully illustrated memoir of a bicycle journey across America with his sonJoin birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma on a ten-week, ten-state bicycle journey as he travels with his son from the Atlantic to the Pacific, lingering and listening to our continent sing as no one has before.

The perfect guide to the birds of the southwestern United States, from the #1 birding website AllAboutBirds.

This is the first comprehensive guide to these closely related families.

'It would be hard to imagine a more thoughtful, intelligent and companionable person to go to sea with than Paul Heiney.

This guide brings together, for the first time in single volume, a comprehensive review of all the world's pheasants, partridges, quails, grouse, turkeys, guineafowl, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and the enigmatic Plains-wanderer - over 250 species in all.

This is a much-needed and authoritative account of Common Buzzards gained from extensive studies by the author over 60 years and also from enthusiasts in this country and across northern Europe.

Discover the healing power of nature through the stories of these characterful birds, whose song is never far away .