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Where Song Began Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
ISBN: HB: 9780300221664, Yale University Press, August 2016
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.
An authoritative and entertaining exploration of Australia's distinctive birds and their unheralded role in global evolution. Renowned for its gallery of unusual mammals, Australia is also a land of extraordinary birds. But unlike the mammals, the bi...
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£20,00
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Spare the Birds! George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society
ISBN: HB: 9780300215458, Yale University Press, August 2016
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.
An engaging history of the founding of one of the world's most popular environmental organizations, the Audubon Society In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine. T...
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£30,00
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Why Birds Matter Avian Ecological Function and Ecosystem Services
ISBN: PB: 9780226382630, ISBN: HB: 9780226382463, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 6 line drawings, 8 tables
For over one hundred years, ornithologists and amateur birders have jointly campaigned for the conservation of bird species, documenting not only birds' beauty and extraordinary diversity, but also their importance to ecosystems worldwide. But while...
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£34,00
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£108,00
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Project Puffin The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock
ISBN: PB: 9780300219791, ISBN: HB: 9780300204810, Yale University Press, July 2016
376 pp., 21x14 cm, 8-page colour illus., 30 black&white images
"Project Puffin" is the inspiringstory of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. As a young ornithology instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp, Dr. Stephen W. Kress learned that puffins had neste...
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£15,99
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£25,00
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Narrow Edge A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
ISBN: PB: 9780300219692, ISBN: HB: 9780300185195, Yale University Press, June 2016
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
Thousands of ravenous tiny shorebirds race along the water's edge of Delaware Bay, feasting on pin-sized horseshoe-crab eggs. Fueled by millions of eggs, the migrating red knots fly on. When they arrive at last in their arctic breeding grounds, they...
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£12,99
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Birders of Africa History of a Network
ISBN: HB: 9780300209617, Yale University Press, June 2016
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.
In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who worked with them. Drawing on ethnogr...
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£45,00
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Pigeon Racing My Personal Insights
ISBN: PB: 9781861516794, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, May 2016
332 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Jim Emerton is one of the most respected figures in pigeon racing, having bred and raced birds for 40 years and had birds return to the loft from as far as 879 miles away. Now he writes on the subject for magazines and websites, sharing his expertise...
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Snowbird Integrative Biology and Evolutionary Diversity in the Junco
ISBN: HB: 9780226330778, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 20 halftones, 14 line drawings, 6 tables
At birdfeeders and in backyards across North America, the dark-eyed junco, or snowbird, can be found foraging for its next meal. With an estimated population of at least 630 million, juncos inhabit forests, parks, and even suburban habitats, making t...
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£48,00
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