Where to Watch Birds in Wales (Where to Watch Birds)

Science & Math

Saunders,David

Biological Sciences

Christopher Helm

Where to Watch Birds in Scotland

Madders; Welstead

This guide covers all 110 of the world's species of tits, nuthatches and creepers. The Parulidae ("true" tits), Remizidae (penduline tits) and Aegithalidae (long-tailed tits) form the bulk of the book (78 species), with a further 24 species of nuthatch and eight creepers. The text covers each species under a number of headings: identification, sex and age, voice, distribution and movements, habitat, population, habits, breeding biology, description, movements, geographical variation, relationships, and references. Simon Harrap is co-author of "Birdwatching in Britain", and co-author of the forthcoming "Helm Identification Guides to Robins and Chats and Thrushes". David Quinn co-illustrated "New World Warblers" and is a winner of the "British Birds Bird Illustrator of the Year" competition.

Tits, Nuthatches and Creepers

Simon Harrap

A guide to 242 species of birds in Seychelles illustrated in colour including 26 endemics. Information on the islands' geography, climate and birdwatching sites is also included in the introduction.

Field Guide to the Birds of Seychelles

Adrian Skerrett

Champagne and Burgundy have more to offer than just wines. Both regions are rich in history, with lovely old churches, abbeys and chateaux, both have waterways among old towns and villages, and both contain some of the wildest, least populated areas of France. The hills, forests and looping rivers of the Ardennes and thick forests, streams and pools of Burgundy's Morvan are wild lands of legend and mythology. Champagne has become busy, like Paris, but Burgundy, for centuries an independent country, remains calm. This guide offers a series of tours which highlight the best of both regions. It includes a selection of hotels and restaurants, useful addresses and background sections on history, wine and food.

Champagne and Burgundy (Regions of France)

Travel

Barbara Eperon

Europe

Dazzling in their beauty, many of the 123 species of kingfisher, bee-eater and roller are very poorly known. This reference provides a review of the group showing every species, all the main races and most sex and age variations. Text and plates are closely co-ordinated with emphasis on behaviour, field characters and identifcation. Colour maps showing breeding and wintering ranges are also included.

Kingfishers, Bee-Eaters and Rollers : A Handbook

C. Hilary Fry

There are 120 species in the Corvid family, of which some are colourful and exotic and others are highly endangered. All species are illustrated and each plate is accompanied by an informative caption page summarizing the most important identification criteria, alongside colour distribution maps. The text provides a thorough review of all aspects of Corvid behaviour, distribution, population and taxonomy as well as the standard rigorous discussion of all matters relating to identification.

Crows and Jays : A Guide to the Crows, Jays and Magpies of the World

The Galapagos Islands are captured in this highly illustrated bird book which describes the islands, the wildlife, habitats and breeding strategies of the archipelago's birds. Included is a field guide with sketches, paintings and maps.

Galapagos Diary

Hermann Heinzel

Specialty Travel

Wagtails are noted for their bold plumage patterns and extensive racial variation. Pipits are a large and difficult group which invariably causes vexation to birders on both sides of the Atlantic. This guide covers the 26 species of northern hemisphere pipits and wagtails in detail. It treats identification in the field and in the hand, and includes colour plates, detailed distribution maps and sonograms of songs and calls.

Pipits and Wagtails of Europe, Asia and North America: Identification and Systematics

Per Alstrom

This book looks in detail at two families of South American birds, the cotingas and manakins, perhaps the most colourful of all neotropical bird groups, and widely regarded as the South American equivalent of New Guinea's Birds of Paradise. The book is a synthesis of the very latest research into the identification, taxonomy and behaviour of each of the 160 species, along with detailed colour maps, several hundred previously unpublished colour photographs, and Eustace Barnes's stunning colour plates.

Cotingas and Manakins

Kirwan, Guy M. & Green, Graeme

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