Zoology: birds (ornithology)

Top 100 Birding Sites of the World features detailed accounts of the best birdwatching sites in the world, giving background and first-hand experience of what you can find there.

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

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

This practical field guide, published in association with the Wildlife Trusts, includes 170 species of coastal birds from Britain and the near Continent.

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

The Barnacle Goose, a distinctive, handsome black-and-white bird, gets its name from a mediaeval myth that the birds hatched from barnacles how else to explain their sudden appearance each autumn in northern Britain?

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

The vibrant and exciting world of penguins is shown in all its glory in this new collection of photographs from renowned wildlife photographer David Tipling.

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

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.

An essential field guide companion covering species pairs or groups that are difficult to identify.

An essential field guide companion covering species pairs or groups that are difficult to identify.

The story of Passenger Pigeon, and what we can learn from its demise 100 years ago.

Small, noisy and colourful, the Teal is a familiar duck throughout the wetlands and waterways Europe and Asia.

Small, noisy and colourful, the Teal is a familiar duck throughout the wetlands and waterways Europe and Asia.

A naturalist's journey to explore and understand the birds that fill the air with their music.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 TWS WILDLIFE PUBLICATION AWARDS.

'Equal parts practical, funny and illuminating - belongs on the required reading list for life' - Sarah Knight, internationally bestselling author of Get Your Sh!

Perched on the back of a sunlit chair was something about 9 inches tall and shaped rather like a plump toy penguin with a nose-job.

Probably no branch of aviculture has progressed so rapidly during the past twenty-five years as that which has for its central interest the production of the many beautiful and rare crosses between various species of birds which to-day tempt the appetite of the bird fancying public, ever on the look-out for something new.

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to the birds eggs and nests of Britain, being a handbook of where, when, and how to find and recognise them.

This antiquarian book contains a comprehensive guide to breeding budgerigars, being a detailed treatise on management during the breeding season.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to starting your own breeding aviary, including tips on aviary construction, cages, birds to pick, possible setbacks, hatching, and any ailments your birds may pick up.

This antiquarian book contains a practical guide to keeping and caring for finches, being a handy collection of tips and helpful hints for the breeding, feeding, and training of these beautiful birds.

Learn to mate your budgies together to get the very best colour combinations.

This vintage book contains a concise guide to mule-breeding canaries and finches, with a specific focus on breeding for appearance and song.

This antiquarian book contains a complete guide to the budgerigar, with information on its natural history, breeding, general management, and more.

This vintage book contains a novice-friendly guide to breeding canaries.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive handbook on keeping canaries.

Originally published in 1887, this book comprises a detailed guide to setting up and maintaining a routine of management for the successful rearing of pheasants.

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

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.

Imagine a jazz musician, improvising on a theme.

Imagine a jazz musician, improvising on a theme.

Conservation of Tropical Birds has been written by four conservation biologists whose expertise spans all the tropical regions of the world.

Conservation of Tropical Birds has been written by four conservation biologists whose expertise spans all the tropical regions of the world.

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.

The erythrocyte presents morphologic, cytochemical, and quantitative adaptations as it progresses through its evolutionary continuum.

See what's new in the Second Edition: Number of species included is increased from 6300 to over 8700, about 85% of the world's birds Better data for many of the species included in the first edition- an exhaustive compilation of new data publis

Beloved as the herald of spring, cuckoos have held a place in our affections for centuries.

The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals.

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

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.