Atlas: Birds of Moscow City and
the Moscow Region
MV Kalyakin and OV Voltzit
The Atlas is a complete collection of
distribution maps of all 273 breeding,
migrant, nomadic and wintering bird
species recorded in Moscow City and the
Moscow Region during ....
372 pages, more than 900 colour
photos, dist maps, illus.
hardcover | 2006 |
£55.50 | approx. $104/82
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Birds: General
The Bedside Book of Birds
An Avian Miscellany
Graeme Gibson
This is a literary and artistic journey around ornithology. Beautiful book designed by CS
Richardson. ....
370 pages | Colour & b/w photos, illus |
Bloomsbury
Hbk | 2005 | 0747578125 | #152344A |
£20.00
Birds of Myanmar
Kyaw Nyunt Lwin, Kwin
Ma Mathwin and Aung Thant
This book is about the birdlife of Myanmar, and provides updated information on the more
common species of the country together with full-colour illustrations. It also features ....
155 pages | Col Illus | Daw Moe Kay
Khaing
Pbk | 2003 | #151549A |
£18.50
Collins Birds of the World
Every bird family illustrated and explained
Les Beletsky
This stunning book captures the grace and beauty of the world's birds. In more than 500 pages,
ornithologist Les Beletsky has gathered over 1,600 original paintings that reveal ....
482 pages | Harper Collins
Hbk | NYP 04/2007 | 0007242360 |
#160648A |
£25.00
Collins Identifying British Birds
Dominic Couzens
An intermediate guide providing a unique combination of identification artwork with
photographs and sketches illustrating bird behaviour. Each spread is designed to show ....
252 pages | Col maps, illus, 1500
photos | Harper Collins
Pbk | 2005 | 0007199228 | #149499A |
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The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds of the
World
David Alderton
This book is a comprehensive visual guide and reference source for over 1250
birds of America,
Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Polar regions, with expert analysis of ....
512 pages | colour photographs and
artworks | Southwater
Pbk | 2006 | 1844763110 | #159186A |
£12.99
Flightless Birds
Clive Roots
Covers the loss of flight in birds, both permanently after years of evolution, and temporarily as
a result of unusual moulting behaviour, and those species that are in ....
264 pages | 16 col photos, b/w illus |
Greenwood Press
Hbk | 2006 | 0313335451 | #161497A |
£36.99
Garden Bird Behaviour
Robert Burton
Explores a wide range of bird behaviour including courtship, territorial behaviour, singing,
nesting, foraging, flying, feeding, and migration. The emphasis is on leisurely ....
144 pages | 125 col illus, 80
col photos
| New Holland
Hbk | 2005 | 1843309386 | #149526A |
£16.99
Pbk | 2006 | 1845375971 | #160784A |
£9.99
Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World
Eugene M McCarthy
Most extensive collection of information on hybridization in birds to date. ....
583 pages | 16 maps, 4 line illus | OUP
Hbk | 2006 | 0195183231 | #157297A |
£54.00
Naturalised Birds of the World
Christopher Lever
New edition of Sir Christopher Lever's invaluable book on naturalised birds, which has long been
out of print. ....
352 pages | 8pp colour photos | Poyser
Hbk | 2005 | 0713670061 | #152438A |
£40.00
The New Encyclopedia of Birds
Edited by Christopher M Perrins
Welcome revision of Christopher Perrins' classic work first published in 1985 by Allen & Unwin
and now long out-of-print.This revision by Oxford University Press contains ....
640 pages | Col photos, maps | OUP
Hbk | 2003 | 0198525060 | #121733A |
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Peacock
Christine E Jackson
People in most countries are familiar with the blue peacock. It is one of the very few bird
species that will tolerate a person standing within a few feet of it, and appears ....
224 pages | 100 illustrations, 45 in
colour |
Reaktion Books
Pbk | 2006 | 1861892934 | #161035A |
£12.95
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Philip's Photographic Guide to Birds of the World
Edited by Andrew Gosler
"Philip's Photographic Guide to Birds of the World" features 1,300 individual bird species,
making it the most comprehensive single-volume photographic collection of birds ....
384 pages | 1300 photos, 150 artworks
and maps | Philip's
Hbk | 2006 | 0540089680 | #160969A |
£25.00
Ptilochronology
Feather Time and the Biology of Birds
Thomas C Grubb
This is the first book to summarize the methods, conceptual issues and results of studies using
the interpretation of feather growth rates as an index of nutritional ....
176 pages | 69 illus | OUP
Hbk | 2006 | 0199295506 | #157188A |
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The Stone Curlew
Burhinus oedicnemus
Richard Vaughan and Nancy Vaughan Jennings
The first monograph on the Stone Curlew. Drawing on the authors' extensive field research it
provides detailed and comprehensive information about the Stone Curlew's ....
345 pages | tabs, figs, colour plates |
Isabelline Books
Hbk | 2005 | 0954295560 | #152794A |
£35.00
The Value of Birds
Edited
by AW Diamond and FL Filion
Wildlife tourism is an increasingly important source of foreign exchange for developing
countries, while in the industrial world revenues from birdwatching run into hundreds of ....
275 pages | Tabs, figs | BirdLife
International
Pbk | 1987 | 0946888108 | #002782A |
£7.00
Why Birds Sing
One Man's Quest to Solve an Everyday Mystery
David Rothenberg
The richness and variety of birdsong is both a scientific mystery and a source of wonder. David
Rothenberg has a unique approach to this fascinating subject - a musician ....
272 pages | Illus | Allen Lane
Hbk | 2005 | 0713998296 | #155352A |
£17.99
Pbk | 2006 | 0141020016 | #156595A |
£8.99
Birds: Biology, Ecology & Behaviour
Avian Flight
J Videler
Covers all the main aspects of aerial locomotion by birds including sections on the history of
bird flight study, aerodynamics, functional morphology, evolution, ....
258 pages | Halftones, 68 line illus | OUP
Hbk | 2005 | 0198566034 | #144658A |
£55.00
Pbk | 2006 | 0199299927 | #158238A |
£29.95
Avian Migration
Edited by P Berthold, E Gwinner and E Sonnenschein
Summarizes reviews and discussions of the most recent hypotheses. Covers all aspects of bird
migration including: phenomenology, ecology, physiology, control mechanisms, ....
610 pages | Col photos, b/w photos,
figs, tabs | Springer
Hbk | 2003 | 3540434089 | #136505A |
£123.00
Behavioural Ecology of Tropical Birds
Bridget JM Stutchbury and Eugene S Morton
Illustrates where, how and why tropical birds are so different from temperate zone birds,
examines behavioural adaptations of tropical birds in timing of breeding, life ....
165 pages | Figs, tabs | Academic Press
Pbk | 2001 | 0126755566 | #118108A |
£27.95
Bird Coloration, Volume 1
Mechanisms and Measurements
Edited by Geoffrey E Hill and Kevin J McGraw
It has been more than 40 years since the mechanisms of color production of birds have been
reviewed and synthesized and in those 40 years new pigments have been discovered, ....
588 pages | 75 colour illus, 16
halftones, 92 line illus, 12 tables |
Harvard UP
Hbk | 2006 | 0674018931 | #154600A |
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Bird Coloration, Volume 2
Function and Evolution
Edited by Geoffrey E Hill and Kevin J McGraw
In this companion volume to "Bird Coloration: Volume 1, Mechanisms and Measurements",
Geoffrey E. Hill and Kevin J. McGraw have assembled some of the world's leading experts ....
477 pages | 182 illus, 12 tables |
Harvard UP
Hbk | 2006 | 0674021762 | #154601A |
£59.95
Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know
John Farndon
First identified in China, this apparently merciless virus which originated in chickens has the
potential to mutate,
possibly killing thousands, even millions, of people. But ....
128 pages | - | Icon Books
Pbk | 2005 | 1840467495 | #156700A |
£5.99
Bird Migration
Dominic Couzens
Few types of behaviour are more fascinating than migration. We know that birds can travel vast
distances with accuracy, but how they do is still somewhat of a mystery. ....
128 pages | 80 col photos, 120 illus |
New Holland
Hbk | 2005 | 184330970X | #150673A |
£12.99
Bird Migration: A General Survey
Peter Berthold
Revised edition of this classic work, written by one the leading researchers in the field of bird
migration. Since the first edition was published nearly 10 years ago, the ....
253 pages | figs, tabs, maps | OUP
Hbk | 2001 | 0198507860 | #119017A |
Pbk | 2001 | 0198507879 | #119016A |
£32.00
Bird Mimicry
A Remarkable Collection of Imitations by Birds
Richard Ranft
Marvel at the sounds of a Shropshire Jay that neighs like a horse and a Blackbird in London that
imitates a computer modem. From the world's largest collection of nature ....
26 tracks | NSA
CD | 2006 | 0712305297 | #158546A |
£11.69
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