Birds Birdwatching category: 559 books
Birds of New Guinea
Distribution, Taxonomy, and Systematics
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
New Guinea, the largest tropical island, supports a spectacular bird fauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Of the nearly 800 species of birds recorded from New Guinea, more than 350...
by David Allen Sibley
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
From the renowned author of the New York Times best seller The Sibley Guide to Birds, a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide to identifying birds in the field--an essential companion for birders of all skill and experience levels.
The Sibley Guide to Birds and The Sibley Guide to Bird...
Birds of Australia
A Photographic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2014
Australia is home to a spectacular diversity of birdlife, from parrots and penguins to emus and vibrant passerines. Birds of Australia covers all 714 species of resident birds and regularly occurring migrants and features more than 1,100 stunning color photographs, including many photos of subspecies...
The Crossley ID Guide
Eastern Birds
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
This stunningly illustrated book from acclaimed birder and photographer Richard Crossley revolutionizes field guide design by providing the first real-life approach to identification. Whether you are a beginner, expert, or anywhere in between, The Crossley ID Guide will vastly improve your ability...
Birds of Texas
A Falcon Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Each Falcon Field Guide to birds introduces the 180 most common and sought-after species in a state. Conveniently sized to fit in your pocket and featuring full-color, detailed illustrations, these informative guides make it easy to identify birds in a backyard, favorite parks, and wildlife areas....
The Migration of Birds
Seasons on the Wing
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Why do birds migrate -- and just how do they do it?
The Migration of Birds is a comprehensive illustrated presentation of the mysteries of bird migration.
Ornithologist Janice M. Hughes describes the findings of the most recent research and surveys as-yet-unanswered questions. She unravels...
by Leslie. H. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Leslie Brown's account of our 15 resident, 7 vagrant and 2 migrant species of eagles, falcons, hawks and vultures in Britain presents a great mass of scientific information about our birds of prey in a manner as attractive to the general reader as to the dedicated ornithologist. The diurnal raptors...
by Gary Clark, Kathy Adams Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Drawing on the knowledge and insight gained from a lifetime of watching, studying, and enjoying birds, this book is full of information about more than four hundred species of birds in Texas, most all of which author Gary Clark has seen first hand. Organized in the standard taxonomic order familiar...
by Todd Telander
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Each Falcon Field Guide to birds introduces the 180 most common and sought-after species in a state. Conveniently sized to fit in your pocket and featuring full-color, detailed illustrations, these informative guides make it easy to identify birds in a backyard, favorite parks, and wildlife areas....
Nightingales in November
A Year in the Lives of Twelve British Birds
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Have you ever wondered what 'our' birds get up to when they're not pinching our peanuts, pilfering our pyracantha berries or nesting under the eaves of our homes? The One Show's natural history star Mike Dilger tells us the answers in Nightingales in November.
This brilliant almanac tells the...
Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Headaches?
And Other Bird Questions You Know You Want to Ask
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
In 1983, Mike O'Connor opened the Bird Watcher's General Store on Cape Cod, which might well have been the first store devoted solely to birding in the United States. Since that time he has answered thousands of questions about birds, both at his store and while walking down the aisles of the supermarket....
Backyard Birding
A Guide To Attracting And Identifying Birds
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
How to bring birds to your home and keep them there—including 250 full-color photos
They're out there every day, flashing through your yard, perching in a tree, collecting on utility wires, or congregating around puddles. They already share your backyard and neighborhood with you, but you—even...
RSPB Migration Hotspots
The World's Best Bird Migration Sites
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Each spring and autumn hundreds of millions of birds - wildfowl, shorebirds, raptors, and passerines - migrate between higher and lower latitudes, or in some cases between high latitudes in the northern hemisphere and high latitudes in the southern hemisphere. In a handful of places around the world,...
Photographic Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia
Including the Philippines & Borneo
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2009
Whether traveling through Southeast Asia or relaxing at home, bird lovers will enjoy this thorough and colorful bird watching guide.
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia is the first comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of mainland Southeast Asia, the Philippines and...