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Sasol Birds of Southern Africa

by Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey & Warwick Tarboton

This fourth edition of Sasol Birds of Southern Africa has been greatly improved by the addition of group introductions and thoroughly revised text, calendar bars showing species' occurrence and breeding periods,...

The American Bird Conservancy Guide to the 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the: Key Sites for Birds and Birding in All 50 States

by American Bird Conservancy

The American Bird Conservancy Guide to the 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the United States offers both bird enthusiasts and conservationists specialized information never before compiled in a single comprehensive...

Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

by Christopher Cokinos

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.

Raptors in Human Landscapes: Adaptation to Built and Cultivated Environments

by David M. Bird, Daniel E. Varland & Juan Jose Negro

This book is a collection of papers highlighting ways in which Raptors have successfully adapted to man-made landscapes and structures. The coverage of Raptors in Human Landscapes is broad, ranging from the...

Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die: Birding Experts Share the World's Geatest Destinations

by Chris Santella

ItÆs estimated that 50 to 60 million Americans count birding among their hobbies. Some hang feeders in their backyards and accumulate yard lists; others participate in annual ôChristmas Countsö; a select...

Birdwatching in New Hampshire

by Eric A. Masterson

A guide to birding in the Granite State

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia: Second Edition

by Morten Strange

[A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia is a newly revised edition of the first—and best—comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of Indonesia.] Because of its vast size and geographical location,...

Texas Waterfowl

by William P. Johnson & Mark W. Lockwood

In this beautifully illustrated guide, two practicing wildlife biologists describe the life histories of forty-five species of ducks, geese, and swans that occur in Texas. For common species and those that breed...

Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction

by Elizabeth Gehrman

The inspiring story of David Wingate, a living legend among birders, who brought the Bermuda petrel back from presumed extinction

Rare Birds is a tale of obsession, of hope, of fighting for redemption against...

Falconer on the Edge: A Man, His Birds, and the Vanishing Landscape of the American West

by Rachel Dickinson

Rachel Dickinson profiles falconer Steve Chindgren, a man willing to make extreme sacrifices to continue practicing the sport that has ruled his life. Dickinson arrives at a sense of falconry’s allure: the...

The Civil War Battlefield Guide

by Frances H. Kennedy

This new edition of the definitive guide to Civil War battlefields is really a completely new book. While the first edition covered 60 major battlefields, from Fort Sumter to Appomattox, the second covers all...

The Wild Duck Chase: Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest

by 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....

Gamebirds of Southern Africa

by Rob Little, Tim Crowe & Simon Barlow

Gamebirds have been utilized since prehistoric times for both food and sport. The 21 upland species found in southern Africa include francolins, spurfowl, quails, guineafowl and sandgrouse. Authoritative text...

Birds and Berries

by Barbara Snow & David Snow

The book's subtitle - A study of an ecological interaction - properly reflects the author's theme but may tend to hide the fact that the relationships between birds and berries can be much more than the simple,...

Bird Habitats in Britain

by R. J. Fuller

"This is the book for the thinking bird-watcher and anyone who wants information on why some habitats are more diverse that others." --Habitat Illustrated by David Watson

Seventy Years of Birdwatching

by H G. Alexander

Seventy Years of Birdwatching is not truly an autobiography, there is too little about the author in it, though the personality of this exceptional, shy and gentle man comes through. This is a book about birdwatching,...

The Pinyon Jay: Behavioral ecology of a colonial and cooperative corvid

by John M. Marzluff & Russel P. Balda

A flock of Pinyon Jays arrive in a flash of blue, and leave again just as suddenly. This once mysterious bird is now the subject of over 20 years of intensive research involving over one thousand color-marked...

In Search of Arctic Birds

by Richard Vaughan

Arctic birds have long held a fascination for Richard Vaughan, whose trips to the region, watching and photographing birds, have provided the raw material for a number of previous publications. Here, he focuses...

The Bee-Eaters

by C. Hilary Fry

Dr Hilary Fry's study of the bee-eaters covers all 24 species of this colourful Family, which ranges from southern Europe, Africa and the Middle East to India, China, south-east Asia and Australia. A major part...

The Dippers

by Stephanie Tyler

This comprehensive ornithology book covers all five species of the Dipper, including the single U.S. species. Research includes a "classic" treatment of conservation/ecological findings such as the effects of...