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  • Birds of Tropical America

    A Watcher's Introduction to Behavior, Breeding, and Diversity

    by Steven Hilty ...
    Series series Mildred Wyatt-Wold Series in Ornithology
    The guide to neotropical bird behavior that picks up where field guides leave off.Why are tropical birds like parrots and quetzals so much more colorful than those in more temperate climates? How can a vulture soaring thousands of feet above the canopy spot a dead rodent no bigger than a mouse on the rainforest floor? What permits sparrow-sized antbirds to not only survive but to thrive among ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Birds

    by Jim Flegg ...
    Series series Collins Gem
    The ideal portable companion, the world-renowned Collins Gem series returns with a fresh new look and updated material.This is the perfect pocket guide for keen birdwatchers and nature enthusiasts to identify the most commonly seen species in Britain and Europe.Authoritative text and beautiful photographs show the distinguishing features of each bird, including notes on appearance, colour and ... Read more

    $1.49 USD

  • The Bird

    A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From, and How They Live

    by Colin Tudge ...
    **Chosen as a best book of the year by The IndependentComplete with an "annotated cast list" of all the known birds in the world—plus gorgeous illustrations—The Bird is a comprehensive and delightfully accessible guide for everyone from dedicated birders to casual birdwatchers that celebrates and illuminates the remarkable lives of birds.**In this fascinating exploration of the avian class, Colin ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Reluctant Twitcher

    A Quite Truthful Account of My Big Birding Year

    by Richard Pope ...
    The human side of birding comes to the fore in The Reluctant Twitcher, a serious yet humorous account of birds and birding and the art of chasing rarities. Richard Pope, a lifelong birder, had successfully avoided this latter pursuit for many years but capitulated in 2007 when he embarked on his "Big Year," the object being to record at least three hundred birds in Ontario within that calendar ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Easy-to-Build Birdbaths

    Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-208

    by Mary Twitchell ...
    Series Book 208 - Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin
    Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Birds of Turkey

    by Mr Guy Kirwan, Barbaros Demirci, Hilary Welch, Kerem Boyla, Metehan Özen, Peter Castell, Tim Marlow ...
    Series series Helm Avifaunas
    The Birds of Turkey is the first avifauna to document this country's amazing ornithological diversity.Turkey - ornithologically one of the most fascinating countries in the Western Palearctic - lies not only at the crossroads between Europe and Asia, but also at the meeting point of a variety of biomes.The extensive semi-deserts of the Middle East reach their northernmost limit in southeastern ... Read more

    $66.19 USD

  • The Complete Naturalist

    by Nick Baker ...
    Series series RSPB
    A complete practical introduction to observing, understanding and investigating the natural world written by an experienced and well travelled naturalist.Nick Baker's fascination with the natural world began at an early age, inspired by Gerald and Lee Durrell's classic book The Amateur Naturalist. Whether you want to understand what makes an insect and insect, rear a family of frogs for your ... Read more

    $21.09 USD

  • Pocket Guide to Birds of Namibia

    by Ian Sinclair ...
    Series series Pocket Guide
    This compact, easy-to-use guide features more than 350 of the most conspicuous and commonly seen birds in Namibia. It offers: concise identification text, full-colour photographs of all species covered, up-to-date distribution maps, an informative introduction featuring the ‘specials’ of the key birding destinations in Namibia. An ideal introduction and travelling companion for birders in or ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • The Birds and the Beasts Were There: The Joys of Birdwatching and Wildlife Observation in California's Richest Habitat

    by Margaret Millar ...
    Santa Barbara in the 1960s was home to two of the 20th century’s most important mystery writers, Margaret Millar and her husband, Ken (Ross Macdonald). It was also home to nearly 400 species of bird. This is the charming story of Ken and Maggie’s quest to see them all.The addiction that is birdwatching comes to vivid life in Margaret Millar’s delightful memoir of her early days as a naturalist. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Avian Architecture

    How Birds Design, Engineer, and Build

    by Peter Goodfellow ...
    An illustrated guide to how birds design and build their nestsBirds are the most consistently inventive builders, and their nests set the bar for functional design in nature. Avian Architecture describes how birds design, engineer, and build their nests, deconstructing all types of nests found around the world using architectural blueprints and detailed descriptions of the construction processes ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Beauty of Birds

    From Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience

    by Jeremy Mynott ...
    Series series Princeton Shorts
    Spring returns and with it the birds. But it also brings throngs of birders who emerge, binoculars in hand, to catch a glimpse of a rare or previously unseen species or to simply lay eyes on a particularly fine specimen of a familiar type. In a delightful meditation that unexpectedly ranges from the Volga Delta to Central Park and from Charles Dickens's Hard Times to a 1940s London burlesque show, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Songs of Love and War

    The Dark Heart of Bird Behaviour

    by Mr Dominic Couzens ...
    A naturalist's journey to explore and understand the birds that fill the air with their music.The dawn chorus: a single voice cutting through the darkness heralds a breaking wave of sound at the very beginning of the day. It is an iconic natural phenomenon with many familiar performers, yet it is a mysterious event for which there is no complete explanation.A mass of starlings gathers at the end ... Read more

    $15.49 USD