Zoology: birds (ornithology)

From dinosaur to dinner plate, Sally Coulthard tells the fascinating and sometimes shocking story of the domestic chicken.

Stephen Moss answers in detail over 450 questions, submitted by birdwatchers of all levels, and in doing so he conveys a veritable feast of bird-related information in a friendly and accessible style.

A startling new book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of 'Moby Dick: Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for 'Leviathan'.

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

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.

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 vintage book contains a comprehensive handbook on keeping canaries.

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 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 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.

Few of us know what goes on after dark, underneath the moon.

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.

A compelling collection of Bill Oddie's latest magazine columns, website blogs and general musings.

Contained in this book is a comprehensive guide to the owning of and caring for canaries, containing answers to frequently asked questions with sections on bird choice, training, aviaries, and common ailments and cures.

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 is John Burroughs' 1871 work, "e;Bird Stories from John Burroughs"e;.

First published in 1842, this vintage book contains part three of Charles Darwin's "e;The Zoology of The Voyage of H.

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

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

First published in 1928, this vintage book contains a detailed guide to game birds, with a special focus on those native to England.

This antique text contains a guide to the care and maintenance of waterfowl as ornamental birds in personal ponds and lakes.

First published in 1897, "e;Bird Neighbors"e; was nature writer Neltje Blanchan's first major work, combining hard science and personal experience in a profusely-illustrated and accessible volume.

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

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

A compelling collection of Bill Oddie's latest magazine columns, website blogs and general musings.

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.

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.

This is volume I of William Henry Hudson's "e;Argentine Ornithology"e;.

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 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.

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 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 text contains a collection of the author's notes on woodcock and snipe.

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

"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.

"e;How to Enjoy Birds"e; is a vintage guide to bird watching, focusing on where and how to find certain birds in England.

Originally published in 1920 when collecting bird's egss was a legal and accepted pastime for young and old.

Birds pervaded the ancient world.

Birds pervaded the ancient world.

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2018WINNER OF THE JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING 2017The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers.

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The story and science of how animals find their way home.

"e;One of the most delightful natural history studies in decades.

When Ceri Levy asked Ralph Steadman to produce one piece of art representing an extinct bird for a recent exhibition, Ghosts of Gone Birds, Ralph said 'yes'.

An environmental parable for our times - the story of a beautiful blue bird meeting its nemesis at the end of the 20th-century.

One of the most exciting debut novels for years - and a book that does for birdwatching what Trainspotting did for smack addiction.

Flamingo is that one friend who always brightens a room as soon as he walks in.

Spot the difference!

Which birds have the most air miles?