Zoology: birds (ornithology)

The bioregion of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea possesses a unique natural heritage stretching back over 80 million years since the break-up of the great southern continent of Gondwana.

The bioregion of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea possesses a unique natural heritage stretching back over 80 million years since the break-up of the great southern continent of Gondwana.

Booderee National Park at Jervis Bay, 200km south of Sydney, attracts over 450,000 visitors each year.

Booderee National Park at Jervis Bay, 200km south of Sydney, attracts over 450,000 visitors each year.

Camera trapping in wildlife management and research is a growing global phenomenon.

Camera trapping in wildlife management and research is a growing global phenomenon.

Birds of the Darwin Region is the first comprehensive treatment of the avifauna of Darwin, a city located in Australia's monsoon tropics, where seasons are defined by rainfall rather than by temperature.

In her comprehensive and carefully crafted book, Gisela Kaplan demonstrates how intelligent and emotional Australian birds can be.

Birds: Brain and Behavior is a collection of papers that discusses brain-behaviors problems concentrating on the bird's complex and well-integrated central nervous system.

Avian Biology, Volume V is a collection of papers that deals with the biology of birds concerning their mechanics of flight and migration.

Ornithology in Laboratory and Field is intended as an aid to ornithological study at the college or university level.

Avian Medicine and Surgery in Practice is an invaluable quick reference resource for clinicians and a useful study guide for veterinary students.

This is a seafaring story with multiple aspects.

From prehistoric times to the present, the Ocean has been used as a highway for trade, a source of food and resources, and a space for recreation and military conquest, as well as an inspiration for religion, culture, and the arts.

The ocean and its inhabitants sketch and stretch our understandings of law in unexpected ways.

From vividly colored underwater photographs of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to life-size dioramas re-creating coral reefs and the bounty of life they sustained, the work of early twentieth-century explorers and photographers fed the public's fascination with reefs.

Eddie and Jena were enjoying a regular summer day, playing hide-and-seek with their friends, Shayla and Sharky.

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.

'INCREDIBLY MOVING' ELTON JOHN'A SOARING DEBUT' SUNDAY TIMES'WONDERFUL' HELEN MACDONALD'DAZZLING' TELEGRAPHThis is a story about birds and fathers.

'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.

With a few sorry exceptions, it's heartening to think that the gardener or bird-spotter of the 1950s or 60s would immediately recognise most of the songs that sing out over English gardens today.

From the renowned naturalist Stephen Moss comes the must-have gift for bird lovers this Christmas.

From the bestselling author of The Robin, The Wren and The Twelve Birds of Christmas.

Acclaimed naturalist and birdwatcher Stephen Moss brings us a year in the life of Britain's favourite bird - the robin.

A lavish and definitive view of the oceanic world - accompanying the landmark 7-part BBC series narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

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.

This book contains the first volume of a four-part treatise on the keeping and management of pigeons.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

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 breeding, rearing, and management of the border fancy canary.

This vintage volume contains a detailed guide to trapping pigeons, with information on assembling traps, different types of trap, common problems, benefits, drawbacks, materials and equipment, and more.

This antique text contains a detailed yet accessible treatise on bird flight and how to identify birds based on how they fly.

This antique book contains a detailed and interesting guide to breeding very specific colours into pet birds.

This antique text contains a detailed, scientific analysis of bird eggs.

This book contains a detailed dictionary of diseases common in canaries, with information on their causes, treatment, and prevention.

This book comprises a simple guide to the identification of the nests of common British birds.

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 lovely little book contains a comprehensive and easy-to-digest handbook for canary owners.

This text contains a brilliant guide to the correct identification of swans, ducks, and geese.

This early work is a fascinating read for any ornithologist or nature enthusiast.

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.

An illustrated guide to the profitable art of shell cameo cutting.

"e;Canary Breeding and Management for Amateurs"e; is a novice-friendly and profusely-illustrated handbook on keeping canaries, with chapters on everything you might need to know from the construction of cages and perches, to common ailments and their treatment.

First published in 1927, "e;The Baby Bird and Its Problems"e; is a vintage treatise on young birds with a special focus on their early development and common ailments.

This vintage book contains a fascinating and comprehensive guide to the various birds that can be found in India, covering mynas, babblers, cuckoos, herons, wagtails, and many, many more.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to the birds exhibited at the Department of Zoology in the British Museum in 1910.

This vintage book contains a collection of recipes for making a variety of interesting beverages, with clear and practical directions for mixing all kinds of cocktails, sours, egg nog, sherry cobblers, coolers, absinthe, crustas, fizzes, flips, juleps, fixes, punches, lemonades, and more.

This is the seventh volume in the Birds of Africa series, looking at the rich avifauna of the world's second largest continent.

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