Books on Birds and Birdwatching

A guide to bird-watching for beginners. It Features over 150 common European birds, habitat overviews that show you what to look for where and commonly confused birds are shown side by side for quick comparison and identification. It also serves as a reference for seasoned bird-watcher.

Brings a educational twist to the traditional game as players learn the names and colorings of both their favorite species and weird and wonderful exotic birds. This title contains 64 illustrated bingo chips, 1 board, 12 bingo cards and brightly colored counters for you to mark up your card.

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From the bestselling author of The Robin: A BiographyThe wren is a paradox of a bird. The wren was on postage stamps and the farthing, it featured in nursery rhymes and greetings cards, poems and rural `wren hunts', still a recent memory in Ireland particularly.

This field guide covers The Gambia, a country which is very popular with a large number of birders and tourists, and the whole of neighbouring Senegal. This fascinating region shelters many Western Palearctic migrants from September to April, as well as a significant list of resident West African birds.

Helps you to match the male and female pairs of 25 species of birds from around the world in this beautifully illustrated memory game. This book features all kinds of species from the barn owl to the blue tit and the ostrich to the macaw this fun and more.

Landfill is a groundbreaking book which confronts our waste making species through the extraordinary and fascinating life of gulls. As these fascinating animals have come onshore more and more, they have chosen to live amongst and alongside humans. Demonised by some, seagulls are, Dee argues, more like us than any other animal.

Foreword by Chris Packham This beautiful book accompanies the photographic competition celebrating some of the best bird photography of the year.

Graced with bounteous natural beauty Costa Rica has become a popular destination for travellers from all over the world. Birds play a prominent role in attracting visitors, too. The shimmering quetzals, gaudy macaws, and comical toucans that populate tourism posters only begin to hint at the impressive avian diversity to be found throughout this small country....

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An ideal gift for all owl lovers, this month-to-view wall calendar features twelve beautifully captured images of this ever-popular fixture of British wildlife.Supplied board-backed in a cello-bag. Each image is captioned by The Owl Book author Jane Russ, giving information and insight on their variety and characteristics.

Includes information that you need to create a welcoming garden environment for birds, with explanations of different bird food, feeders and how to site them, including practical projects, such as making a nest box.

A new, updated edition of the one compact, portable, and user-friendly field guide the novice or experienced birder needs to identify birds in the field in the diverse habitats found in Costa Rica.

A field guide, which illustrates and describes various species of bird in Central America from Mexico to Panama, covering over 1,500 species. It includes information on key identification features, habitats, songs, and calls as well as distribution maps showing each species' location and prevalence.

A hugely engaging book about birds, their senses and behaviour that is informed by an attractive blend of personal experience, entertaining stories and cutting-edge science.

An introduction to the lives and behaviors of both swifts and swallows, with eye-catching photographs and expert text.

A fully comprehensive field guide to the 462 bird species of Sri Lanka. With photographs from the author and the region's other top-quality nature photographers, each species is illustrated, including variants where relevant. The guide is focussed on field use to help beginners and experts identify species.

Presents an introduction to watching birds. This book discusses general birding - where to go and when, what equipment to take with you, tips on attracting birds to your garden, and how to take field notes. It features more than a hundred and thirty of the commonest species of Britain and Ireland.

A compact, lightweight and informative guide to 215 of the most common birds found in Britain. It features concise descriptions of each bird's main characteristics including plumage, calls, confusion species, habitat and includes distribution maps and detailed illustrations.

The songs of over 260 birds can be heard over the course of a year, from the Cuckoo's call in spring to the summer seaside sound of the Herring Gull, the autumn song of the Robin and the Song Thrush's voice of hope in the depths of winter.

The natural history of the Western Front during the First World War by the award-winning author of Meadowland.

In a unique new collaboration, Collins have paired up with the respected British Trust for Ornithology, bringing together the most authoritative and up-to-date information in this new field guide to the common birds of Britain and Ireland.