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Miscellaneous
In this section of the Birdwatch bookshop you will find books on a range of subjects related to birdwatching.
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ID Insights Pocket Cards - Identify Birds in your Garden The latest set in the popular ID Insights Pocket Cards covers 65 species of town and garden birds.…  | Bird Brain of Britain_33943.jpg "Bird Brain of Britain"){kind=small} An ornithology quiz book packed with challenging questions for birders.…Author: Charles Gallimore and Tim Appleton Format: Paperback RRP: £7.99 |
Tales of a Tabloid Twitcher This book offers a window into the sometimes shady worlds of tabloid journalism and birdwatching.…Author: Stuart Winter Format: Paperback RRP: £7.99 | Pelican Blood Pelican Blood is a rare sighting itself: an irreverent, funny, moving novel that soars and swoops as gracefully as the birds it so adores.…Author: Cris Freddi Format: Paperback RRP: £7.99 |
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Birds... But Were Afraid to Ask!_33944.jpg "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Birds... But Were Afraid to Ask!"){kind=small} This book answers all those questions about birds that beginners and experts alike may ask themselves as they go about their birding.…Author: Stephen Moss Format: Paperback RRP: £9.99 | RSPB Guide to Birdwatching Practical tips for birding.…Author: Mike Unwin Format: Paperback RRP: £12.99 |
Fighting for Birds A personal, philosophical and political history of 25 years of bird conservation, this book provides an instructive and amusing read for all those…Author: Mark Avery Format: Paperback RRP: £12.99 | Amazing Birds: A Treasury of Facts and Trivia This beautifully illustrated book is a treasury of facts and information about the avian world.…Author: Roger Lederer Format: Flexibound RRP: £12.99 |
Kingfisher A series of stunning images depicting the everyday life of the kingfisher.…Author: David Chandler and Ian Llewellyn Format: Hardback RRP: £12.99 | Silent Fields: paperback This book looks at the impact that humans have had on wildlife.…Author: Roger Lovegrove Format: Paperback RRP: £12.99 |
The Biggest Twitch- Around the World in 4.000 Birds The story of the authors' quest to to beat the world record for the number of birds seen in a year…Author: Alan Davies & Ruth Miller Format: Paperback RRP: £12.99 | Barn Owl In this book, insightful text coupled with rarely seen images of the species' life and behaviour introduces the reader to some of the most…Author: David Chandler Format: Hardback RRP: £12.99 |
The DVD-ROM Guide to British Birds: concise edition This Windows- and Macintosh-compatible software offers comprehensive multimedia coverage of 130 species. That's all birds you commonly encounter in…Format: DVD RRP: £14.95 | The Atlas of Birds_78265.jpg "The Atlas of Birds") Authoritative and concise, this beautifully illustrated atlas captures the dazzling diversity of bird life around the world.…Author: Mike Unwin Format: Paperback RRP: £16.99 |
Secret Lives of British Birds This book exposes the extraordinary hidden world of some of our most familiar birds.…Author: Dominic Couzens Format: Paperback RRP: £14.99 | Birds Britannia In this book, Stephen Moss focusses on some of our most beloved and charismatic birds.…Author: Stephen Moss Format: Hardback RRP: £17.99 |
RSPB Birds: their Hidden World This lively new book aims to give readers a broad understanding of 'how birds work'.…Author: Peter Holden Format: Paperback RRP: £14.99 | Bird Sense Author Tim Birkhead uses his wealth of knowledge to show how birds interpret the world.…Author: Tim Birkhead Format: Hardback RRP: £16.99 |
Silent Spring Revisited_110097.jpg "Silent Spring Revisited"){kind=small} This revealing tale plots milestone events in conservation and cultural/political history to evoke the five decades since 'zero hour', 1962.…Author: Conor Mark Jameson Format: Hardback RRP: £16.99 | Eagle Days This new book provides a complete description of eagles, their behaviour and ecology.…Author: Stuart Rae Format: Paperback RRP: £18.00 |
Flight of the Wild Geese Flight of the Wild Geese tells the story of the winter wildlife of the Solway Firth, that wonderfully wild estuary set between the rugged hills of…Author: Graham Uney Format: Paperback RRP: £16.99 | Growing Barn Owls in my Garden This is the enjoyable and informative story of the author’s success in restoring this beautiful bird to areas of the country where its numbers had…Author: Paul Hackney Format: Paperback RRP: £16.99 |
British Birds: Their Folklore, Names and Literature | The Jewel Hunter British birder Chris Gooddie recounts the story of his record-breaking attempt to see all 32 of the world's pittas in a single year.…Author: Chris Gooddie Format: Hardback RRP: £17.95 |
Kestrels for Company An appealing book that rightfully raises the profile of the kestrel.…Author: Gordon Riddle Format: Paperback RRP: £18.99 | Drawing Birds This is a fully revised and updated new version of a popular RSPB handbook to the art and joy of drawing birds.…Author: John Busby Format: Paperback RRP: £19.99 |
Whose Bird? This book explores the relationship between people and their avian namesakes.…Author: Bo Beolens and Michael Watkins Format: Paperback RRP: £17.99 | The Mating Lives of Birds This attractive and informative book looks at natural selection and why birds have evolved different reproduction strategies, examining territories,…Author: James Parry Format: Hardback RRP: £19.99 |
The Birdwatcher's Yearbook 2012 In 336 fact-filled pages, the Yearbook seeks to provide a comprehensive compendium of verified information covering all aspects of the hobby.
…Author: Hilary Cromack, David Cromack Format: Paperback RRP: £18.50 | The Hen Harrier - in the Shadow of Slemish This book, a dedicated study of the bird in N. Ireland for over two decades, provides a detailed account of the life, habits and prospects for the…Author: Don Scott Format: Paperback RRP: £18.99 |
The Rutland Water Ospreys …Author: Tim Mackrill and John Wright Format: Hardback RRP: £20.00 | Frontiers in Birding Here's a book to inspire any birdwatcher. It covers many subjects at the cutting edge of what is being discovered about birds.…Author: Martin Garner and friends Format: Paperback RRP: £19.95 |
Birdscapes: Birds in our Imagination and Experience This book gently leads us to reflect on large questions about our relation to birds and the natural world.…Author: Jeremy Mynott Format: Hardback RRP: £20.95 | North Norfolk's Wildlife Naturalists Andrew Bloomfield and Gary Smith set out to produce a unique appreciation and celebration of the region’s wildlife.…Author: Andrew Bloomfield and Gary Smith Format: Hardback RRP: £29.99 |
The Peregrine: The Complete Works of J A Baker The works of the celebrated naturalist and author J A Baker have been reissued in a single tome.…Edited: John Fanshawe Format: Hardback RRP: £20.00 | Top Birding Sites of Europe |
Partridges: Countryside Barometer Globally, there are at least 45 species of game bird that have the word partridge in their name, but in this book Potts devotes himself to the Grey,…Author: G R Potts Format: Paperback RRP: £30.00 | Silent Fields This book looks at the impect that humans have had on wildlife.…Author: Roger Lovegrove Format: Hardback RRP: £25.00 |
Audubon to Xantus: The Lives of Those Commemorated in North American Bird Names 98 biographies are presented, each including delightful drawings of the eponymous species by Dana Gardner and in almost all cases, a contemporary…Author: Barbara and Richard Mearns Format: Paperback RRP: £25.00 | The History of British Birds (pbk) The History of British Birds reviews our knowledge of avifaunal history over the last 15,000 years, setting it in its wider historical and European…Author: Derek Yalden and Umberto Albarella Format: Paperback RRP: £27.50 |
Catching the Bug This guide will demonstrate how to maximise the enjoyment of your local birdwatching patch.…Author: Mark Constantine, Nick Hopper and The Sound Approach Format: Hardback RRP: £29.95 | Beguiled by Birds This book takes a personal and reflective look at the history and development of birdwatching in Britain.…Author: Ian Wallace Format: Hardback RRP: £29.99 |
Avian Invasions (pbk) This book summarises the history of exotic bird studies and their role as biological invaders.…Author: Tim M. Blackburn, Julie L. Lockwood & Phillip Cassey Format: Paperback RRP: £32.50 | Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names REPRINT UNDER CONSIDERATION. This reference lists the generic and specific name for almost every species of bird in the world.…Author: James Jobling Format: Hardback RRP: £40.00 |
Birds and Light: The Art of Lars Jonsson_33948.jpg "Birds and Light: The Art of Lars Jonsson") This work describes the life and work of one of the finest bird artists in history.…Author: Lars Jonsson Format: Hardback RRP: £40.00 | There and Back? This book is a celebration of the phenomenon of migration, through the words and pictures of those seeped in its appreciation-of artists, regular…Edited: Andy Brown and Michael Warren Format: Hardback RRP: £50.00 |
The Norfolk Bird Atlas The Norfolk Bird Atlas details accounts of summer and winter distributions from extensive fieldwork conducted between 1999-2007.…Author: Moss Taylor and John H Marchant Format: Hardback RRP: £45.00 | Neotropical Birds of Prey: Biology and Ecology of a Forest Raptor Community …Author: David F. Whitacre Format: Hardback RRP: £46.50 |
Extinct Birds_101512.jpg "Extinct Birds") The first comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird species and subspecies that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years.…Author: Julian P Hume and Michael Walters Format: Hardback RRP: £50.00 | Avian Survivors: The History and Biogeography of Palearctic Birds A major part of the book is devoted to the distribution of Western Palearctic birds in relation to bioclimate.…Author: Clive Finlayson Format: Hardback RRP: £50.00 |
Bird Observatories of Britain and Ireland Written by wardens and ringers from each location, Bird Observatories of Britain and Ireland is a timely new edition of one of the earliest Poyser…Author: Mike Archer, Mark Grantham, Peter Howlett and Steve Stansfield Format: Hardback RRP: £60.00 | The History of British Birds_34955.jpg "The History of British Birds"){kind=small} The History of British Birds reviews our knowledge of avifaunal history over the last 15,000 years, setting it in its wider historical and European…Author: Derek Yalden and Umberto Albarella Format: Hardback RRP: £65.00 |