The birds of southern Mozambique.
Westville: African Bird Book Publishing, (1996. revised edition). Octavo, paperback, colour plates, photographs, maps. More
Westville: African Bird Book Publishing, (1996. revised edition). Octavo, paperback, colour plates, photographs, maps. More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. Quarto, paperback, photographs and other illustrations. Australia is home to many distinctive species of birds, and Aboriginal peoples have developed close alliances with them over the millennia of their custodianship of this country. Aboriginal Peoples and Birds in Australia: Historical and Cultural Relationships provides a review..... More
Perry: Prion, 1996. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Provides detailed information on birding sites on this island archipelago, each site entry giving location and access, accommodation, birding strategy and species expected to be seen. Also includes a selective bird list giving brief details on the distribution and status of the uncommon birds..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2006. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. This is the first comprehensive field guide dealing exclusively with the birds of this spectacular region. It covers all resident, migrant and vagrant species found in Macronesia (Canary Islands, Madeira, Azores and Cape Verde). Over 450 species are..... More
London: Christopher Helm, 2015. Octavo, colour photographs and illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This authoritative handbook, part of the Helm Identification Guides series, covers in detail the world's 175 species of robins and chats. Formerly considered to be part of the thrush family (Turdidae), this large group is now usually..... More
Mexico City: BirdLife International, 2007. Large quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. A portfolio drawn from the world's greatest bird photographers drives the message of this book home. The book is split into five chapters looking at all aspects of human's relationship with birds. The first looks the place birds occupy in..... More
National Library of Australia, 2023. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations. INCLUDES AN AUTHOR SIGNED BOOKPLATE, EXCLUSIVE TO ANDREW ISLES NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS. William T. Cooper (1934-2015) is one of the great bird artists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. He illustrated some of the most famous bird books..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2019. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. New Naturalist # 139. There are more than 50 known species of gulls, and many of these are well-adapted to living in urban areas and in close proximity to humans. But there are also less familiar species to discover, which keep..... More
London: Christopher Helm, 2006. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations, colour photographs. Takes the reader on a trip around Britain's principal habitats, which looks beyond the confines of our gardens to expose the world of some our familiar birds. This work shows the secrets of romance from Mute Swans, the perfect father..... More
Auckland Park: Jacana Media, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations. Do you have a large 'Wader'-sized gap in your bird knowledge? Roy Cowgill and Stephen Davis will help you fill in those gaps and will soon have you identifying South Africa's shorebirds with confidence and ease. This unique new..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Quarto, colour photographs. This is the essential identification guide to the 19 species of terns, noddies, and skimmers of North America. Covering every species and featuring 325 high-quality colour images, this book is the ideal companion for anyone interested in this charismatic but sometimes challenging..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Aimed at beginner and intermediate birders, yet suitable for all levels, this new volume in the groundbreaking Crossley ID Guide series is the most user-friendly field guide to the birds of Britain and Ireland. Based on The Crossley ID Guide's..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Large octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This stunningly illustrated book from acclaimed birder and photographer Richard Crossley revolutionizes birding by providing the first real-life approach to identification. Whether you are a beginner, expert, or anywhere in between, this guide will vastly improve your ability to identify..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2022. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. SIGNED BY THE SENIOR AUTHOR AND ARTIST, JEFF DAVIES. The essential quick identification guide, based on the award-winning The Australian bird guide (ABG), first published 2017. Both books are at their best together. If you have a copy of AGB then..... More
Berrynarbor: Devon Bird Watching & Preservation Society, 2007. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. Situated 10 miles off the North Devon coast and lying across the entrance to the Bristol Channel, Lundy rivals Fair Isle and the Isles of Scilly as one of THE places to watch spring and autumn..... More
Berrynarbor: Devon Bird Watching & Preservation Society, 2007. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings. Situated 10 miles off the North Devon coast and lying across the entrance to the Bristol Channel, Lundy rivals Fair Isle and the Isles of Scilly as one of THE places to watch spring and autumn..... More
Cambridge MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2012. Octavo, photographs,text illustrations, publisher's cloth. Nuttall Ornithological Club Memoir No. 18. The second of a projected three volumes on the history of Australasian ornithology, is an important contribution to the field. It contains chapters on the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (including: Birds Australia, and..... More
London: A & C Black Publishers, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire are the three main islands of the Netherlands Antilles off the coast of northern Venezuela. They are major tourist destinations especially popular with divers and naturalists. The colour plates are..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2022. second edition), Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. An acclaimed photographic guide to these marvelous and enigmatic birds—now in a new, updated edition Penguins are perhaps the most beloved birds. On land, their behavior appears so humorous and expressive that we can be excused for attributing to..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Eagles are awe-inspiring birds that have influenced much human endeavour. Australia is home to three eagle species, and in Melanesia there are four additional endemic species. A further three large Australian hawks are eagle-like. Eagles, being at the top of the food..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2022. colour photographs. Dr Stephen Debus provides a 30-year update of knowledge on these six species, as well as a falcon-like hawk, the Black-shouldered Kite. This book is based partly on the author’s field studies, as well as being a supplement to the Handbook of Australian, New..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2019. third edition), Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations, line drawings, maps. This fully updated Third Edition of the popular and award-winning field guide Birds of Prey of Australia contains two sections: a field guide with distribution maps, detailed illustrations and information on identification; and a handbook..... More
Barcelona: Birdlife International and Lynx Edicions, 2016. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, maps. This illustrated checklist complements the series Handbook of Birds of the World (HBW). It is the first ever completely illustrated checklist, incorporating hundreds of taxonomic changes and many global innovations. It includes all the HBW plates and essential..... More
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2014. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, maps. Having finished the Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW), Lynx has now published a checklist in association with BirdLife: HBW And Birdlife International Illustrated Checklist Of The Birds Of The World. This is not part of the HBW collection..... More
The Hague: Wetlands International, 2010. Oblong format, paperback, colour photographs. This booklet summarises what is known about the status of waterbird populations in different parts of the world, shows how numbers and population trends compare from region to region, and how they changed between the 1970s and the 2000s. The..... More