Wildlife: Birds & Birdwatching

A stunningly illustrated guide to the wonderful world of hummingbirdsWith their glorious colors, glittering iridescence, astonishing powers of flig...

The story of the discovery of nearly 300 bird species new to science since 1960. Amazing as it might sound, ornithologists are still discovering s...

Elusive study organisms for ornithologists and highly prized additions to the birders life-list, the antpittas (Grallariidae) and gnateaters (Conop...

The book traces Conor Jameson's travels in search of the Goshawk, a magnificent yet rarely seen (in Britain at least) raptor. Each episode of the n...

A field guide to all the bird species found in India, Pakistian, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives. This comprehensive and de...

Extinct Birds was the first comprehensive review of the hundreds of the bird species and subspecies that have become extinct over the last 1,000 ye...

What is a bird? To answer that, we must understand how birds are different from all other living things and how they fit into the diversity of life...

Have you ever wondered what our birds get up to when they're not pinching our peanuts, pilfering our pyracantha berries or nesting under the eave...

A lavish celebration of 47 of the most frequent and familiar birds found in gardens around the British Isles.From urban rooftops to open meadows, t...

Waders are spectacular members of our avifauna. They are especially prevalent along coasts and in wetlands during the spring and autumn migration p...

ONE OF 2015'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES AND THE MAIL ON SUNDAY. A hard-hitting, passionate and well-researched book about the conflict betwee...

''Wondering and wonderful. The nature book of the year.'' JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL''This lovely book is almost as thrilling as the bird''s immortal song ...

Marvel at the lives of hummingbirds with this collection of photographs and information by award-winning author and wildlife photographer Stan Teki...

Have you ever wondered what your feathered friends are really thinking? For the last time, Paul, we are not going to fly in a P formation. Is that ...

A comprehensive and fully illustrated field guide to the birds of Japan, covering all 738 species and subspecies. Japan is home to a spectacular a...

Book of the Month, Countryside magazine '[this] fascinating new book... provides a detailed insight into the snow-white species' Waterways World ...

I went for a walk around the garden. A great tit warbled above a patch of coltsfoot. I felt a thousand discoveries awaited' ...