Zoology and animal sciences

ACCOMPANIES THE LANDMARK SERIES NARRATED BY DAVID ATTENBOROUGHFind a world of wonder beyond the ice.

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.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZEYour body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes.

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.

Charles Darwin's final major work investigates the crucial role of earthworms in shaping soil, offering a remarkable insight into nature's slow but powerful processes.

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.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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.

This volume contains a comprehensive treatise on hunting dogs, with a special focus on history and notable dog breeders.

"e;The Forest, the Jungle and the Prairie"e; is a collection of anecdotes and essays relating to the author's extensive and varied hunting experiences.

This fantastic handbook on rearing dogs contains chapters on every aspect of the subject from selecting and breeding to training for exhibition.

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.

Highly recommended or those with a practical interest in hunting and hunting dogs, "e;Some Sporting Dogs"e; is a profusely-illustrated handbook on dogs as used for sport, with chapters on selection and breeding, general management, types of sporting dogs, training, and much more.

This book contains a detailed guide to terriers as used for sport, with chapters on their history, selection, breeding, training, general management, and more.

This book contains a detailed guide to the sheep-dog, being a handbook on the system of judging sheep-dog trails in New Zealand and the art of breaking-in and working sheep-dogs.

This is a detailed handbook on the Sealyham terrier, a rare Welsh breed of small to medium-sized terrier originating as a working dog in Wales.

"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.

This vintage book contains a series of beautiful anatomical and physiological illustrations of the horse, cow, sheep, pig, and chicken, in full colour and coupled with explanatory notes.

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.

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

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

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

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

The definitive guide to the birds of the Emirates.

A photographic guide to the fantastic avifauna of Colombia.

A compact yet comprehensive guide to the birds of the West Indies.

For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, but over the last 20 years scientists have uncovered new fossils and used new technologies that have upended this story.

The definitive field guide to the birds of SeychellesA group of ancient granitic islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the Seychelles enjoy a remarkably diverse bird fauna, rich with endemics.

A comprehensive field guide to the birds of OmanOman is a truly amazing birding destination.