Birds Birdwatching category: 559 books
The Hummingbird Book
The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying,and Enjoying Hummingbirds
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2008
Attract amazing hummingbirds to your backyard! With this comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide, you'll find it easy to attract these tiny jewel-like birds to your own yard. The Stokes Hummingbird Book provides all the information you need to bring hummingbirds up close, identify them, and understand...
The Complete Birdhouse Book
The Easy Guide to Attracting Nesting Birds
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Copiously illustrated with line drawings and full-color photographs, this large format paperback book contains the essential information that backyard nature enthusiasts want and need -- to build and seek out birdhouses, including the right birdhouse for many popular species .
by Maggie Kate
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
An indispensable resource for anyone in need of avian art, this magnificent compendium comprises more than 600 royalty-free images. Featuring the work of many different artists, it abounds in accurate renderings of ducks and geese, herons, owls, eagles, woodpeckers, hummingbirds, and many other birds, both familiar and less well known, from the world over.
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A Glimpse Into the Natural Life of a Bird
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1986
"Writing with uncanny skill, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence leads us gently into the world of birds. Her perception, intuition and experience give her insights that she here freely shares with us all.
"I knew this remarkable lady for years, and had previously read her Mar, but on re-reading...
by Stephen Shunk
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
A complete guide to the natural history, ecology, and conservation of North America’s 23 woodpecker species.
From the iconic Woody Woodpecker to the ubiquitous Northern Flicker, woodpeckers have long captivated our attention. Their astonishing anatomy makes them one of the most specialized...
Far from Land
The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The lives and activities of seabirds as you’ve never seen them before
Seabirds evoke the spirit of the earth's wildest places. They spend large portions of their lives at sea, often far from land, and nest on beautiful and remote islands that humans rarely visit. Thanks to the development...
by Eugene Potapov, Richard Sale
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The Snowy Owl - possibly the world's sexiest bird - needs little
introduction. This massive white owl breeds throughout the Arctic,
wherever there are voles or lemmings to hunt, from Scandinavia through
northern Russia to Canada and Greenland. Southerly movements in winter
see North American birds...
by David Lindo, Mr Stephen Moss
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Anyone can become an Urban Birder. You can do it anywhere and any time, whether you've got the day to spare, on your way to work, during your lunch break or just looking out of a window. Look up and you will see.
The book is an inspirational look at the birdlife in our cities, or more accurately,...
Good Birders Don't Wear White
50 Tips From North America's Top Birders
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2007
David Sibley, Don and Lillian Stokes, and many more share their inside tips—and witty observations—on the birding life.
The biggest names in birding dispense advice to birders of every level—on topics ranging from feeding birds and cleaning binoculars to pishing and pelagic birding—in...
Hope Is the Thing With Feathers
A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
A prizewinning poet and nature writer weaves together natural history, biology, sociology, and personal narrative to tell the story of the lives, habitats, and deaths of six extinct bird species.
Quinta Mazatlan: A Visual Journey
Architecture of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2018
Quinta Mazatlan: A Visual Journey, is a celebration of the architectural and cultural wonders of McAllen’s most distinctive mansion and landscape. Photographer Deval Pino Shah and writer Eileen Mattei collaborated on this book filled with stunning images by Shah. Mattei presents new artistic...
The Eagle's Way
Nature's New Frontier in a Northern Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
"The best nature writer working in Britain today." - The Los Angeles Times. Eagles, more than any other bird, spark our imaginations. These magnificent creatures encapsulate the majesty and wildness of Scottish nature. But change is afoot for the eagles of Scotland: the golden eagles are...
Superdove
How the Pigeon Took Manhattan ... And the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Why do we see pigeons as lowly urban pests and how did they become such common city dwellers? Courtney Humphries traces the natural history of the pigeon, recounting how these shy birds that once made their homes on the sparse cliffs of sea coasts came to dominate our urban public spaces. While detailing...
Making Birdhouses
Easy and Advanced Projects
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
This practical guide for building birdhouses contains plans for more than fifty attractive and useful structures — from a one-room house for bluebirds to a forty-two-room structure for purple martins. In addition to instructions and diagrams for constructing houses for such avian varieties as robins,...