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Author: Thompson

Millions of people worldwide enjoy bird watching; it offers them a chance to get back to nature and enjoy the beauty of the outdoors. Bird Watching For Dummies covers all the basics of bird watching, leading you on a gui ...

Author: Ken Simpson , Ken Simpson, Nicholas Day & others

Since it was first published in 1984, Simpson & Day's Field Guide to the Birds of Australia has been one of the most - if not the most - respected bird guide in the country. It has sold over 500 000 copies. The guide con ...

Author: James Kavanagh

Missouri Birds, An Introduction to Familiar Species, is a must-have, reference guide for beginners and experts alike. Whether you're on a nature hike or in your own backyard, you'll want to take along a copy of this indi ...

Author: Michael Morecombe

Written and illustrated by bird expert, Michael Morcombe, this is the most comprehensive field guide to Australian birds published. Simple, clear design links text and paintings; unique system of organisation of informat ...

Author: Neville W. Cayley

Neville Cayley's What Bird is That? is Australia's most popular bird-identification guide. This comprehensive and authoritative field guide now in its second edition has been fully revised and updated by prominent ornith ...

Author: Andrew M Wilson, Daniel W Brauning, Robert S Mulvihill & others

Twenty years after the first Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania was published, the Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania brings our knowledge of the state's bird populations up to date, documenting curre ...

Author: John M. Marzluff & Colleen Marzluff

Twenty years ago, fresh out of graduate school and recently married, John and Colleen Marzluff left Arizona for a small cabin in the mountains of western Maine. Their mission: to conduct the first-ever extensive study of ...

Author: Jeffrey V Wells & Allison Child Wells

This fresh new book highlights the birds that are loved by Mainers and essential to why millions of tourists visit each year. Maine's Favorite Birds features each bird beautifully illustrated in large format, accompanied ...

Author: Laura Erickson & Jonathan K. Alderfer

This pocket guide takes the authority and reputation of "National Geographic's" top-selling "Field Guide to the Birds of North America" and turn it short and sweet. Here is a book that meets the same standards of excelle ...

Author: John H. Rappole

The purpose of migration, regardless of the distance involved, is to exploit two or more environments suitable for survival or reproduction over time, usually on a seasonal basis. Yet individual organisms can practice th ...

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Have the world in your hands with these compact, illustrated natural history guides. From the black swan to the ruby-throated hummingbird, leaf through "Nature Guide Birds of the World", a beautiful guide profiling the w ...

Author: Martin J. Smith

The Wild Duck Chase takes readers into the peculiar world of competitive duck painting as it played out during the 2010 Federal Duck Stamp Contest-the only juried art competition run by the U.S. government. Since 1934, t ...

Author: Sundev Gombobaatar, Christopher W. Leahy, Shagdarsuren Boldbaatar & others

Mongolia is a huge landlocked country in the centre of Asia. It encompasses a diverse range of habitats including forests, mountains, vast plains and of course the Gobi Desert. For many years it was closely allied with R ...

Author: John Green

Noted wildlife illustrator presents detailed accurate renderings of 42 species -bald eagle, common black hawk, great horned owl, Andean condor, osprey, crested caracara, turkey vulture, peregrine falcon (on a dramatic do ...

Author: Sir David Attenborough & Errol Fuller

Drawn from Paradise is David Attenborough's journey through the cultural history of the birds of paradise, one of the most exquisite and extravagant, colourful and intriguing families of birds. From the moment they were ...

Author: Tim Birkhead

For thousands of years people have been fascinated by birds, and today that fascination is still growing. In 2007 bird-watching is one of the most popular pastimes, not just in Britain, but throughout the world, and the ...

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Brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, the National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Birds of North America: East is designed to be compact enough to literally fit into any bird-lover' ...

Author: John Clements

This authoritative book is aimed particularly at those who participate in racing pigeons at distances of over five hundred miles, but will also be of value to all pigeon fanciers. John Clements succeeds in making the rea ...

Author: Janine Burke

"We tend to take birds for granted, in the landscape or in our neighbourhoods. The presence of birds communicates the health of a place. When they're gone, it's as though there's a hole in the sky, in the air, an absence ...

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Author: Tim Birkhead

What the birds have taught us: a gorgeously rendered and comprehensive history of ornithology, from folklore to facts--the perfect gift for bird enthusiasts everywhere.

Leading ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes read ...