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London: Bat Conservation Trust, (2012. second edition). Quarto, paperback, graphs, tables. Fully updated and revised to include the latest evidence and best practice, the second edition features new chapters and content, with new advice and guidance. Whilst focusing on efforts in the UK this is the essential reference and guide... More about Bat surveys: good practice guidelines
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Small octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Birds and insects are nature's premier architects, using a dizzying array of talents to build functional homes in which to live, reproduce, and care for their young. Recycling sticks, branches, grass, and mud to construct their shelters, they are... More about Architecture by birds and insects
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. From tiny ruby-throated hummingbirds to the majestic red-tailed hawk, this book examines the many creatures that commute on the Mississippi Flyway as part of an annual migration. This magnificent migrational dance takes place every year in Chicagoland, yet it... More about The art of migration: birds, insects, and the changing seasons in Chicagoland
Oakland: University of California Press, (2014. second edition). Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, diagrams, graphs, maps. The second edition of this important and authoritative survey provides students and researchers with up-to-date and accessible information about the ecology of freshwater and estuarine wetlands. Prominent scholars help students understand both general concepts... More about Ecology of freshwater and estuarine wetlands
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, black and white illustrations. Discover the biology, natural history, and diversity of geckos as lizard biologist and gecko expert Aaron Bauer answers deceptively simple questions with surprising and little-known facts. Readers can explore colour photographs that reveal the natural wonder... More about Geckos: the animal answer guide
Stillwater: Voyageur Press, 2003. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. Presents the big cat's natural history, and includes Erwin A. Bauer's engaging first-person narrative, bringing you right into the action. Besides highlighting all of the major species, the text has a strong focus on the status of the endangered or threatened big... More about The last big cats: an untamed spirit
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2003. Quarto, dustwrapper, maps, colour photographs, colour illustrations. The "National Geographic Reference Atlas to the Birds of North America" combines stunning full-color photographs, the latest maps, and authoritative information into an accessible reference for every birder to enjoy. With lively and astute essays from leading... More about Reference atlas to the birds of North America
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A photographic identification guide to tanagers, cardinals, and finches. The photographs illustrate age, seasonal, and sexual variation in the species found north of Mexico, including introduced species and vagrants. It is designed to introduce the biology, identification, molts, vocalization, and... More about Tanagers, Cardinals, and Finches of the United States and Canada: the photographic guide
London: Academic Press, 2002. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This guide covers all 64 species of emberizine sparrow found in the United States and Canada. It is illustrated with over 350 photographs and gives detailed information on the identification of species, sexes, age, races and forms of all sparrows, towhees... More about Sparrows of the United States and Canada: the photographic guide
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations. This lovely volume of Sharon Beals photographs of birds' nests is a treasure for birders and bird-lovers, and for anyone fascinated by the intricacy and wonder of the natural world. Photographed at the California Academy of Sciences, the Museum... More about Nests: fifty nests and the birds that built them
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications/Royal Botanic Gardens, 2001. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The Plants of Mount Kinabalu provides an inventory of all vascular plants in the flora of Mount Kinabalu. Volume 4 contains historical aspects of plant collecting on Kinabalu, a biographical sketch of two of the most important collectors... More about The plants of Mount Kinabalu, Volume 4: Dicotyledon families Acanthaceae to Lythraceae
Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Trustees, 2013. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations, line drawings, maps. The vision of a garden shared peacefully by humans and animals is a familiar but elusive idea. Whether threatened by habitat destruction or climate change, displaced by urbanization or invasive species, poisoned by industrial toxins, or... More about Designing wildlife habitats
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Small octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any animals appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side, Maddalena... More about Beautiful minds: the parallel lives of Great apes and Dolphins
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, line drawings. In this fascinating account, Bearzi takes us inside the world of a marine scientist and offers a firsthand understanding of marine mammal behaviour, as well as the frustrations, delights, and creativity that make up dolphin research. In this intimate narrative... More about Dolphin confidential: confessions of a field biologist
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. In this fascinating account, Bearzi takes us inside the world of a marine scientist and offers a firsthand understanding of marine mammal behaviour, as well as the frustrations, delights, and creativity that make up dolphin research. In this... More about Dolphin confidential: confessions of a field biologist
Marlborough: Crowood Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Insect photography is both a challenging and rewarding art. If an image is well shot it can yield stunning results, which can aid study and enhance enjoyment of the natural world. Through introducing insects and their behaviour, it advises on when and... More about Insect photography: art and techniques
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2009. Large octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The class of Arachnida does not consist of spiders alone but also contains ten other orders - harvestmen, ticks and mites, wind spiders, tailless whip spiders, whip spiders, scorpions, palpigrades, pseudoscorpions, schizomids and ricinuleids - nearly all of which have eight... More about Arachnids
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, black and white photographs, text illustrations. No two lizard species have spawned as much folklore, wonder, and myth as the Gila monster, Heloderma suspectum, and the Beaded lizard, H. horridum - the sole survivors of an ancient group of predacious... More about Biology of Gila monsters and Beaded lizards
Washington DC: Island Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Today, there is a growing demand for designed landscapes - from public parks to back gardens - to be not only beautiful and functional, but also sustainable. Travis Beck gives professionals and students the first book to translate the... More about Principles of ecological landscape design
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Octavo, paperback, black and white line drawings. Originally published in the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader... More about Earthworms and their allies
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A photographic guide to all 37 of the British families, with a focus on spiders that can be identified in the field. Containing over 300 stunning photographs, it is designed to be accessible to a wide audience, including those new... More about Britain's spiders: a field guide
Exeter: Pelagic Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. A comprehensive guide to the native and non-native species of amphibian and reptile found in the British Isles. Professor Trevor Beebee covers the biology, ecology, conservation and identification of the British herpetofauna, and provides keys for the identification of... More about Amphibians and reptiles: ecology and identification
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Quarto, illustrations, a fine set. Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple uses, he succeeded in creating... More about The Ambonese herbal: Georgius Everhardus Rumphius
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white illustrations. In The emerald planet, David Beerling puts plants centre stage, revealing the crucial role they have played in driving global changes in the environment, in recording hidden facets of Earth's history, and in helping us to predict its... More about The emerald planet: how plants changed earth's history
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Seawatching is the challenging act of identifying waterbirds in flight. Since more than one hundred different species can fly past an observation point, often at great speed or in tightly packed, mixed-species flocks, identification of these distant shapes can be a.... More about Peterson reference guide to seawatching: eastern waterbirds in flight