May 2006 STOCKLIST
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WORLD
Threatened Birds of the World by BirdLife International. 2000. The long-awaited, superbly produced, essential standard reference for world birders, with colour illustrations, distribution maps and conservation details of all threatened species. A massive and massively important work. Reviewed in Birding World 14: 174. Hardback £70.00.
The 'Howard and Moore' Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World edited by Edward Dickinson. 2003. A new, third edition of the standard list, in revised order, importantly including all subspecies, and well indexed. Fully revised, the most up-to-date and comprehensive list, including all subspecies, with 1,039 pages. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 393. Hardback £60.00.
Mammals of the World: A Checklist by Andrew Duff and Ann Lawson. 2004. A complete up-to-date checklist to all the species on Earth, with 304 pages, English and scientific names and brief summaries of distribution. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 263. Hardback, £24.99.
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Birds of the World: Recommended English Names edited by Frank B. Gill and
Minturn T. Wright III for the IOC. The International Ornithological Congress
recommended standardised English names of the birds of the world: the product of
more than 15 years of discussion, with 272 pages and a fully searchable CD-ROM.
Softback & CD-ROM £19.99.
Handbook of the Birds
of the World. Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott & Jordi Sargatal. 1992 onwards - .
NOW IN STOCK. Volume 10. 2005. With the series well on schedule, this superb volume covers Cuckoo-shrikes to Thrushes and Chats, via Bulbuls and Wrens etc. Hardback £138.00.
Volume 11 due September 2006 Pre-publication price if ordered before 31st August 2006 £112.00. Thereafter the normal price of £138.00 applies. Volume 11 covers Old World flycatchers to Old World warblers, via Monarchs and Gnatcatchers etc.
The ultimate handbook, with magnificent colour plates illustrating all the world's species and hundreds of superb colour photographs. Vol. 1 Ostrich to Ducks; Vol. 2 New World Vultures to Guineafowl; Vol. 3 Hoatzin to Auks; Vol. 4 Sandgrouse to Cuckoos; Vol. 5 Barn Owls to Hummingbirds; Vol. 6 Mousebirds to Hornbills; Vol. 7 Jacamars to Woodpeckers; Vol. 8 Broadbills to Tapaculos; Vol. 9 Cotingas, Manakins, Tyrant-flycatchers, New Zealand Wrens, Scrub-birds, Lyrebirds, Larks, Swallows, Pipits & Wagtails. Reviewed in Birding World 5: 486; 8: 358, 11: 156 & 15: 349. Further volumes in preparation. Hardback Vols 1-10 each £138.00.
Checklist of the Birds of Eurasia by Ben King. 1997. An up-to-date taxonomy, with 105 pages. Softback £18.95.
Naturalised Birds of
the World by Christopher Lever. 2005. An update to the author’s 1987
standard work of the same title, itemising introduced species around the world,
with 352 pages. Hardback £40.00.
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Where to Watch Birds: World Cities by Paul Milne. The ideal guide for the
globe-trotter, with 480 pages. Softback £16.99.
A World Checklist of Birds by Burt L. Monroe Jr. & Charles G. Sibley. 1993. The most up-to-date list, in the DNA-based taxonomic order, including full English name index, with 393 pages. (Hardback £45.00) Softback £16.95.
The New Encyclopedia of Birds edited by Chris Perrins. 2003. A major reference on the characteristics, behaviour, ecology and evolution of birds, with 656 pages and hundreds of excellent colour photographs and colour artwork throughout. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 393. Hardback £35.00.
Raptor Watch: A global
directory of raptor migration sites by Jorje Zalles and Keith Bildstein. 2000. A
beautifully produced NirdLife International publication detailing the World's
raptor migration hot-spots. A 'must' for World travellers and raptor
enthusiasts. Softback £37.00.
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BRITAIN & IRELAND
Norfolk: A Birdwatcher's Site Guide by Phil Benstead, Steve Rowland and Richard Thomas. 2001. A user-friendly site guide to Britain's top county, with 106 pages and numerous maps. Spiral bound softback £12.95.
Where to Watch Birds in Northeast England by Dave Britton & John Day. Second Edition. 2004. Covering over 160 sites, with 416 pages and numerous maps. The first edition was reviewed in Birding World 8: 480. Softback £16.99.
Birds in England by Andy Brown and Phil Grice. 2005. A detailed status of the birds of England, with 600 pages and 32 pages of colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 18: 220. Hardback £40.00.
Where to Watch Birds in the East Midlands by Graham Catley. 1996. The key sites in Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, with 322 pages and 62 maps. Softback £14.99.
Where to Watch Birds in East Anglia by Peter and Margaret Clarke. 2002. Fourth edition. The key sites in one of the best birdwatching areas in Britain, with 270 pages and 45 maps. Softback £14.99.
Where to Watch Birds in Thames Valley and the Chilterns by Brian Clews and Paul Trodd. 2002. Third edition. The latest edition of the classic Helm guide, with 368 pages and numerous maps. Softback £14.99.
Birds Brittanica by Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey.
2005. A unique, highly readable
and beautifully produced book celebrating the cultural links between humans and
birds in Britain, with 450 colour photographs and illustrations. Hardback
£35.00.
Collins Birds by Dominic Couzens.
2005. A sumptuous new handbook capturing the
wonders of European birds with fresh, insightful and highly readable text, with
over 500 colour photographs and 1,000 illustrations. Hardback £30.00.
Finding Birds in Britain by Lee Evans. 2001. An up-dated edition of the 1996 classic, The Ultimate Site Guide to British Birds, with detailed directions to over 100 hard-to-find species. Softback £19.95.
Bird Brain of Britain by Charles Gallimore and Tim Appleton. 2004. An ornithological quiz book based on the popular contest at the annual British Birdwatching Fair, with 192 pages. Softback £7.99.
Best Birdwatching Sites in Norfolk by Neil Glenn. 2002. An easy-to-use guide to 70 reserves and birdwatching localities, with 224 pages and maps throughout. Softback £15.00.
Birdwatcher's Pocket Field Guide by Mark Golley. 2003. A good value pocket field guide to the birds of Britain & Ireland, with concise, accurate text and over 1,000 colour illustrations by Dave Daly. Softback £9.99.
The Complete Garden Bird Book by Mark Golley, Stephen Moss and David Daly. 1996. An excellent identification and garden bird guide for beginners, with 176 pages and 600 colour illustrations. Softback £9.99.
The Birds of Dorset by George Green. 2004. A detailed avifauna on this top birdwatching county, with 560 pages and 40 pages of colour photographs. Hardback £40.00.
Where to Watch Birds in Dorset, Hampshire & the Isle of Wight by George Green & Martin Cade. 2001. 3rd Edition, with 308 pages and about 60 maps. Softback £14.99.
Where to Watch Birds in Cumbria, Lancashire & Cheshire by Jonathan Guest and Malcolm Hutcheson. 1997. 2nd Edition, with 224 pages and numerous maps. Softback £14.99.
Where to Watch Birds in Somerset, Gloucestershire & Wiltshire by Ken Hall & John Govett. 2003. Third edition. With 300 pages, numerous maps and scattered line-drawings. Softback £14.99.
Best Birdwatching Sites in the Highlands of Scotland by Gordon Hamlett. 2005. A detailed, up-to-date site guide to one of the most exciting birdwatching areas in Britain, with 240 pages and 164 maps. Softback £15.95.
Where to Watch Birds: Britain by Simon Harrap and Nigel Redman. 2003. The long-awaited fully up-to-date guide to all the best birdwatching sites in Britain, with 624 pages and numerous maps. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 393. Softback £19.99. (Now back in stock after an earlier printing problem.)
Where to Watch Birds in Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and the former West Midlands counties by Graham Harrison & Jack Sankey. 1997. Second edition. With 308 pages and numerous maps. Softback £14.99.
Where to Watch Birds in Shetland by Hugh Harrop. 2nd edition. 2000. Over 70 sites detailed, including the famous and not-so-famous migrant & rarity sites, the best seabird colonies and the best sites for Otters, cetaceans and wild flowers. Softback £7.00.
The Complete Guide to
the Birdlife of Britain and Europe by Peter Hayman and Rob Hume. 2001. A
completely updated version of the classic guide, as important as Collins Bird
Guide, with 288 pages and thousands of annotated colour paintings. Reviewed in
Birding World 15: 131. Hardback £25.00.
The New Birdwatcher's Pocket Guide to Britain and Europe by Peter Hayman and Rob
Hume. 2001. The completely updated pocket version of the above, packed with
useful information, with 272 pages and thousands of annotated colour paintings.
Reviewed in Birding World 15: 131. Hardback £9.99.
The Historical Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain & Ireland by Simon Holloway.
1996. The fascinating Atlas complement. Reviewed in Birding World 9: 202.
Hardback. £35.00.
Where to Watch Birds
in Ireland by Clive Hutchinson. 1994. With 272 pages and numerous maps. Reviewed
in Birding World 7: 81. Softback £14.99.
Pocket Guide to the Birds of Britain and northwest Europe by Chris Kightley and
Steve Madge. 1998. A true pocket guide (18cm x 12cm) and one of the best to
commoner birds, covering almost 400 species, with 300 pages and excellent colour
illustrations by Dave Nurney. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 157. Softback
£12.99.
The Birds of Islay:
a celebration in photographs by Gordon Langsbury and Malcolm Ogilvie. 2006.
A collection of photographs of species recorded on this Scottish island,
with 160 pages and colour photographs throughout. Softback £17.50.
Where to Watch Birds in Scotland by Mike Madders & Julia Welstead. 1997. Fourth edition. Covering 120 sites, with 332 pages and numerous maps. Reviewed in Birding World 6: 127. Softback £14.99.
Where to Watch Birds in Yorkshire by John Mather. 1998. Second edition. Covering 156 sites, with 304 pages and numerous maps. Reviewed in Birding World 7: 294. Softback £14.99.
The State of the Nations' Birds by Chris Mead. 2000. A readable survey detailing the history and current status of Britain's birds, with 288 pages. Softback £12.99.
Where to Watch Birds in the London area by Dominic Mitchell. 1997. Birding around the capital from the city parks to the main reservoirs, with 272 pages and 70 maps. Softback £14.99.
Seabird Populations of Britain and Ireland by Ian Mitchell, Stephen Newton, Norman Ratcliffe and Timothy Dunn. 2004. A detailed T. & A.D. Poyser monograph: the findings of Seabird 2000 compared with the surveys of 1974 & 1991, with 512 pages, numerous maps, figures and photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 261. Hardback £35.00.
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Where to Watch Mammals in Britain & Ireland by Richard Moores. A
ground-breaking, species-by-species site and fieldcraft guide to finding the
mammals of Britain & Ireland, with 304 pages and numerous maps. Softback £14.99.
Bird in the bush: a social history of birdwatching by Stephen Moss. 2004. This history of birdwatching, with 288 pages and black-and-white illustrations. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 351. Hardback £16.99. Softback £8.99.
Attracting Birds to your Garden by Stephen Moss and David Cottridge. 2000. A softback edition of the best book on the subject, with 160 pages and 250 colour photographs. Softback £12.99.
Where to Watch Birds in Devon & Cornwall by David Norman and Vic Tucker. 2001. Fourth edition. With 365 pages and numerous maps. Softback £14.99.
First for Britain & Ireland by Phillip Palmer. 2000. The fascinating stories behind every first for Britain and Ireland, with a potted history of every species, with many rarity photographs and line drawings. Hardback £25.00.
The Birds of Shetland by Mike Pennington, Paul Harvey, Kevin Osborn, Roger Riddington, Pete Ellis, Martin Heubeck and Dave Okill. 2004. A detailed avifauna, with 640 pages, plus 40 pages of colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 261. Hardback £40.00.
Birds of Suffolk by Steve Piotrowski. 2003. A new county avifauna, with 360 pages and 32 pages of colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 349-350. Hardback £40.00.
Birds New to Britain 1980–2004 by Adrian Pitches and Tim Cleeves.
2005. The
stories of 76 ‘firsts for Britain’ based on the Birding World and British Birds
accounts, with commentaries and annual reviews, with 300 pages and 80 colour
photographs. Hardback £35.00.
Birds of the Isles of Scilly by Peter Robinson. 2003. A detailed avifauna, with 608 pages, plus 32 pages of colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 130-131. Hardback £39.00.
Where to Watch Birds in Wales by David Saunders. Third edition. 1999. With c.264 pages and numerous maps. Softback £14.99.
Complete Irish Wildlife by Paul Sterry. 2004. Outstanding value: 320 pages with over 1,000 colour photographs and facing-page texts covering birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, spiders, other invertebrates, wild flowers, fungi and more. Softback £14.99.
The Birds of Blakeney Point by Andy Stoddart and Steve Joyner.
2005. A complete
history of the birds of this famous Norfolk birding hotspot by two of its most
dedicated current patchworkers, with 240 pages and 30 colour photographs.
Hardback £25.00.
Wildlife Walks edited by Malcolm Tait. 2003. Access details for 500 of the best Wildlife Trust reserves in Britain, with suggested routes. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 483. Softback £9.99.
Where to Watch Birds in Kent, Surrey & Sussex by Don Taylor, Jeffrey Wheatley & David Burges. 2003. Fourth edition. With 300 pages and numerous maps. Softback £14.99.
Best Birdwatching Sites in Sussex by Adrian Thomas and Peter Francis. 2003. An easy-to-use site and up-to-date guide to more than 50 of the top birdwatching sites in the county, with numerous maps. Softback £14.50.
Where to Watch Birds in Britain and Ireland by David Tipling. 2004. 300 of the best birdwatching sites in Britain and Ireland concisely described, with 176 pages and numerous colour photographs and maps. Hardback £14.99.
Top Birding Spots in Britain & Ireland by David Tipling. 1996. Over 400 of the best sites described, including all RSPB Reserves, all visited by the author in 1994/95; excellent value with hundreds of colour photographs and numerous maps. Softback £12.99.
Beguiled by birds by Ian Wallace. 2004. A personal view of the development of birdwatching in Britain, with 272 pages and lavishly illustrated with colour paintings by the author as well as colour and black-and-white photographs throughout. Reviewed in Birding World 18: 307. Hardback £29.99.
Birds of Kuwait
by Abdullah F. Alfadhel. 2005. A beautifully produced, sumptuous collection of
large format, superb colour photographs of virtually all of the birds of Kuwait,
with text in Arabic and English. Hardback £29.99.
The Birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan by Ian Andrews. 1995. The first detailed status, with 186 pages and 160 colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 9: 79. Softback £18.50.
The Breeding Birds of the United Arab Emirates by Simon Aspinall. 1996. With 174 pages, species atlas maps and 56 colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 9: 118. Softback £14.99.
Identification Guide to European Non-passerines by Kevin Baker. 1993. The complement to the passerine volume (Svensson 1992), with 332 pages and numerous drawings. Reviewed in Birding World 6: 497. Softback £17.00.
Warblers of Europe, Asia and North Africa by Kevin Baker. 1997. A Christopher Helm/A. & C. Black identification guide covering 145 species and all their races in detail (note the Asian coverage) with 400 pages and 48 colour plates. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 118. Hardback. £32.00
The Handbook of Bird Identification: Europe & the Western Palearctic by Mark Beaman & Steve Madge. 1998. The long awaited ultimate identification handbook, with 800 pages and 330 colour plates by Hilary Burn, Martin Elliott, Alan Harris, Peter Hayman, Laurel Tucker & Dan Zetterstrom. Hardback £65.00.
A Birdwatchers' Guide to Morocco by Patrick and Fedora Bergier. 2003. A greatly enlarged and thoroughly revised second edition of the standard site guide to this ever-popular birding country, with 166 pages and 54 maps. Softback, £14.75.
Lesvos Update Summer 2004 by Richard Brooks. 2004. 64 pages. Softback £8.95.
Birding on the Greek Island of Lesvos by Richard Brooks. 2002 Revised edition. With 254 pages and 77 colour photographs. Earlier edition reviewed in Birding World 12: 85. Softback £19.95.
Revised Checklist of the Birds of Lesvos by Richard Brooks. 1999. A status-coded 14-column checklist. 8-page softback booklet. £2.50.
Birds in Europe by Ian Burfield and Frans van Bommel. 2004. The beautifully produced and authoritative BirdLife International review of population estimates, trends and conservation status of Europe’s birds, with country-by-country species population estimates and easy-to-use population trend species maps throughout. 374 pages. Reviewed in Birding World 18: 175. Hardback £30.00.
Birdwatching on Spain's Southern Coast by John Butler. 2002. Second edition. A detailed site guide to 39 major and 35 subsidiary sites, with maps throughout. Softback £16.95.
Field Guide to the Raptors of the Western Palearctic by William S. Clark and N. John Schmitt. 1999. A detailed guide, with 48 colour plates of birds perched as well as in flight, 40 pages of colour photographs, and distribution maps. (Hardback 55.00) Softback £29.50.
Raptor In-hand Identification Guide by William S. Clark and Reuven Yosef. 1999. An inexpensive, excellent identification reference to Western Palearctic raptors, including over 140 colour photographs of in-hand raptors. Softback £14.99.
(**June)
Birds of the Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands, Madeira, Azores, Cape Verde
by Tony Clarke. The first comprehensive field guide and status of the birds of
these popular birding islands, with 320 pages and 56 colour plates. Softback
£24.99.
A Birdwatching Guide to Crete by Stephanie Coghlan. 2001. Fifth edition. A good value Arlequin Press site guide, with 100 pages, numerous maps and line drawings and 17 colour photographs. Softback £9.95.
A Birdwatchers' Guide
to the Canary Islands by Tony Clarke & David Collins. 1996. A Prion site guide
to this inexpensive and increasingly popular birding destination. Reviewed in
Birding World 10: 158. Softback £12.75.
A Birdwatching Guide to Morocco by Pete Combridge & Alan Snook. 1997. A good
value Arlequin Press site guide. Softback £9.95.
A Photographic Guide to Birds of Egypt and the Middle East by David Cottridge and Richard Porter. 2000. A slim, good value pocket guide, with 144 pages and 275 colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 14: 86. Softback £7.99.
A Photographic Guide to Birds of Israel and the Middle East by David Cottridge and Richard Porter. 2000. A slim, good value pocket guide, with 144 pages and 275 colour photographs. Softback £9.99.
Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East & North Africa. Cramp et al. 1977-1994. The complete standard reference, with colour plates. See also 'BWPi by Stanley Cramp et al' under 'Compact Discs' below. Hardback Volumes 1-7 & 9 each £90.00, Volume 8 £95.00.
A Birdwatching Guide to France north of the Loire by Jacquie Crozier. 2003. An Arlequin Press site guide. Softback £15.95.
A Birdwatching Guide to Brittany by Stephanie Coghlan. 2003. An Arlequin Press site guide, with 112 pages, numerous colour photographs and maps. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 87. Softback £10.95.
A Birdwatching Guide to the Pyrenees by Jacquie Crozier. 1998. A good value Arlequin Press site guide, with 86 pages, 13 colour photographs and several black-and-white illustrations and maps. Softback £9.95.
A Birdwatching Guide to France South of the Loire (including Corsica) by Jacquie Crozier. 2000. A detailed Arlequin Press site guide, with 300 pages, numerous colour photographs and maps. Softback £15.95.
Common
Birds in Oman by Hanne & Jens Eriksen. 2005. An introduction to the birds of
Oman, with about 400 superb, large-format colour photographs of Middle Eastern
species, 256 pages and colour distribution maps for Oman. Softback £20.00.
Birdwatching Guide to Oman by Hanne & Jens Eriksen and Panadda & Dave Sargeant. 2001. A beautifully produced site guide, with 254 pages and numerous colour sketch maps and colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 131. Softback £20.00.
A Birdwatchers' Guide to Southern Spain & Gibraltar by Clive Finlayson. 1993. A Prion site guide, with 89 pages and numerous maps. Softback £12.75.
Birds of Iberia by Clive Finlayson and David Tomlinson. 1993 (2003 softback edition). An attractive outline of the birds of Spain and Portugal, with 218 pages and colour photographs throughout. Softback £19.95.
The Birds of Cyprus by P.R. Flint & P. F. Stewart. 2nd edition. 1992. A BOU check-list, with 234 pages, several maps, 24 black-and-white photographs of habitats and 17 colour photographs of birds. Hardback £24.00.
The Raptors of Europe and the Middle East: A Handbook of Field Identification by Dick Forsman. 1999. The essential standard reference. A major handbook by the foremost authority on Western Palearctic raptors, with hundreds of colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 12: 380-381. Hardback £35.00.
Where to Watch Birds in Southern & Western Spain by Ernest Garcia & Andrew Paterson. 2001. 2nd edition. A detailed guide to 90 major sites, with 358 pages and numerous maps. Softback £16.99.
A
Birdwatching Guide to Georgia by Lexo Gavashelishvili, Ramaz Gokhelashvili,
Zura Javakhishvili and David Tarkhnishvili. 2005. The first bird site guide to
the central Caucasus, including information on other wildlife, with 132 pages,
maps and colour photographs throughout. Softback £14.99.
The Birds of Hungary by Gerard Gorman. 1996. The status and distribution of Hungary's birds, with 192 pages, line drawings and distribution maps. An essential reference to this key birding area. Hardback £24.99.
Finding Birds in Eastern Austria by Dave Gosney. 1994. A concise but very precise bird-finding booklet, with 21 pages and numerous annotated maps. Softback booklet £6.00.
Finding Birds in Bulgaria by Dave Gosney. 1994. A concise but very precise bird-finding booklet, with 30 pages and numerous annotated maps. Softback booklet £6.00.
Finding Birds in Cyprus by Dave Gosney. 1996. A concise but very precise bird-finding booklet, with 28 pages and numerous annotated maps. Softback booklet £6.00.
Finding Birds in Egypt by Dave Gosney. 1993. A concise but very precise bird-finding booklet, with 26 pages and numerous annotated maps. Softback booklet £6.00.
Finding Birds in Greece by Dave Gosney. 1993. A concise but very precise bird-finding booklet, with 36 pages and numerous annotated maps. Softback booklet £6.00.
Finding Birds in Mallorca by Dave Gosney. 1995. A concise but very precise bird-finding booklet, with 24 pages and numerous annotated maps. Softback booklet £6.00.
Finding Birds in Northern Morocco by Dave Gosney. 1993. A concise but very precise bird-finding booklet, with 23 pages and numerous annotated maps. Softback booklet £6.00.
Finding Birds in Southern Morocco by Dave Gosney. 1996. A concise but very precise bird-finding booklet, with 28 pages and numerous annotated maps. Softback booklet £6.00.
Finding Birds in Poland by Dave Gosney. 1995. A concise but very precise bird-finding booklet, with 28 pages and numerous annotated maps. Softback booklet £6.00.
Finding Birds in Southern Portugal by Dave Gosney. 1995. A concise but very precise bird-finding booklet, with 32 pages and numerous annotated maps. Softback booklet £6.00.
Finding Birds in Western Turkey by Dave Gosney. 1996. A concise but very precise bird-finding booklet, with 36 pages and numerous annotated maps. Softback booklet £6.00.
A Birdwatchers' Guide to Turkey by Ian Green & Nigel Moorhouse. 1995. A Prion site guide, with 122 pages and numerous maps. Softback £12.75.
The Birds of the
State of Kuwait by George Gregory. 2006. A detailed and up-to-date status,
with 220 pages and a selection of colour photographs. Softback £15.00.
The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds edited by Ward Hagemeijer and Michael Blair. 1997. The detailed atlas of European breeding birds, with accompanying text written by a team of authors. With 900 pages and numerous line drawings. Reviewed in Birding World 10: 443. Hardback £65.00.
The Birds of the Cape Verde Islands by C.J. Hazevoet. 1995. A BOU check-list, with 192 pages, several maps and 48 colour photographs of birds and habitats. Hardback £22.00.
A Birdwatching Guide to Menorca, Ibiza & Formentera by Graham Hearl. 1996. A good value Arlequin Press site guide. Softback £8.95.
A Birdwatching Guide to Mallorca by Graham Hearl & Jon King. 1999. 2nd Edition. With 58 pages & 14 maps.Reviewed in Birding World 9:157. A good value Arlequin Press site guide. Softback £9.95.
Important Bird Areas in Europe by M.F. Heath and M.I. Evans. 2000. A massive new BirdLife International work: the ultimate site guide for birders and the foundation of conservation in Europe, describing 3,600 of the best bird sites in Europe, with 1,600 pages and thousands of maps. Two volume set. Softback £75.00.
Collins Pocket Guide: Birds of Britain & Europe by Herman Heinzel, Richard Fitter & John Parslow. 1995. Superb value, complete Western Palearctic field guide, with 384 pages and numerous colour plates. Reviewed in Birding World 8: 277. Softback £14.99.
Birds of Tunisia by Paul Isenmann, Thierry Gaultier, Ali El Hili, Hichem Azafzaf, Habib Dlensi and Michael Smart. 2005. With dual English/French text, an authoritative and up-to-date detailed status, with 432 pages, 130 colour photographs and 150 maps. Reviewed in Birding World 18: 307. Softback £35.00.
Birds of Algeria / Oiseaux d'Algerie by Paul Isenmann and Aissa Moali. 2000. A definitive avifauna, with fully dual English/French text, 336 pages, 210 maps and 115 colour photographs. Softback £33.95.
Birds of Europe by Lars Jonsson. 1992. The best field guide (along with Svensson & Grant 1999), with 560 pages and 400 colour plates. Reviewed in Birding World 5: 404. (Hardback £29.99) Softback £16.99.
Birds of the Czech Republic by Joseph Kren. 2000. The first comprehensive review of the Czech Republic's avifauna to be published in English, with 304 pages, over 400 maps and 43 photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 468. Hardback £29.99.
Where to Watch Birds in France by LP0. 1995. With numerous maps. Softback £16.99.
Where to Watch Birds in Italy by LIPU. 1995. With 192 pages and 55 maps. Softback £14.99.
The Good Bird Guide by Keith Marsh. 2005. A species-by-species site and fieldcraft guide to finding Europe’s most sought-after birds, with 500 pages and numerous maps. Reviewed in Birding World 18: 305. Softback £16.99.
Photographic Handbook of the Rare Birds of Britain and Europe by Dominic Mitchell & Steve Young. Revised edition. 1999. Almost 700 colour photographs of some 270 species rare in Europe as a whole, with identification and European status text. In terms of Britain, this book overlaps slightly with Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland (Vinicombe & Cottridge 1997), but very many species which are rare in Britain are common in parts of Europe and thus excluded from this European book. Reviewed in Birding World 10: 356. Hardback £29.99.
Where to Watch Birds in Spain: the 100 Best Sites by José Antonio
Montero. 2006. An up-to-date guide to all the main localities, beautifully
produced, with 342 pages and
numerous detailed maps and colour photographs. Softback £18.50.
A Birdwatchers' Guide to Portugal and Madeira by Colm Moore. Goncalo Elias & Helder Costa. 1997. A Prion site guide, with 144 pages and 23 maps. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 159. Softback £12.75.
A Birdwatching Guide to Extremadura by John Muddeman. 1999. A concise guide, with 96 pages, 24 maps and illustrations by John Busby. Softback £10.95.
Birds of Bahrain by Tom Nightingale and Mike Hill. 1993. A lavish, beautiful, large format (280mm x 240mm) introduction and detailed checklist to the birds of this island state, with 286 pages and colour photographs throughout. Hardback £45.00.
A Birdwatching Guide to Southern Spain by Malcolm Palmer. 1997. A good value Arlequin Press site guide. With 89 pages, eight colour photographs and numerous line drawings and maps. Reviewed in Birding World 10: 279. Softback £9.95.
A Birdwatching Guide to Eastern Spain by Malcolm Palmer. 2001. A detailed Arlequin Press site guide, with 120 pages and over 40 maps. Softback £10.95.
Birds of Britain and Europe: Collins Field Guide by Roger Tory Peterson, Guy Mountfort and Phil Hollom. 1993. Fifth edition. The original standard field guide up-dated. Hardback £25.00.
A Field Guide to the Birds of the Middle East by Richard Porter, Steen Christensen & P. Schiermacker-Hansen. 1996. All 700+ species described and illustrated in colour, with 350 pages and distribution maps facing the plates. Reviewed in Birding World 10: 39. Softback £24.95.
Lapland: a Natural
History by Derek Ratcliffe. 2005. An authoritative but attractive monograph
in the T. & A.D. Poyser series, with 253 colour photographs and 364 pages.
Hardback £40.00.
The Birds of Menorca by Enric Ramos. 1996. A detailed checklist to the birds of this Balearic Mediterranean island, with 170 pages and 35 colour photographs. Softback £7.20.
Where to Watch Birds in North and East Spain by Michael Rebane. 1999. A detailed site guide with 304 pages and 100 maps. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 90. Softback £16.99.
Where to Watch Birds in Tenerife by Eduardo Garcia del Rey. 2001. A detailed guide to 67 sites on the island, with 148 pages, maps, colour photographs and illustrations. Softback £12.50.
Checklist of the Birds of the Canary Islands by Eduardo Garcia del Rey. 2001. A useful A5-sized bookletbcoding the status of all the birds recorded in the islands in detail, with 30 pages. Softback £7.50.
The Shell Birdwatching Guide to the United Arab Emirates by Colin Richardson & Simon Aspinall. 1998. An attractive guide to 44 sites in the UAE, with maps, travel information, annotated checklist, birding calendar and 17 colour photographs. Softback £10.00.
A Birdwatching Guide to Romania by James Roberts. 2000. An Arlequin Press site guide, with numerous colour photographs and maps. Softback £22.00.
A Birdwatcher’s Guide to Italy by Luciano Ruggieri and Igor Festari. 2005. An up-to-date bird-finding guide to over 100 of the best sites in Italy, Sicily and Sardinia, including a complete Italian checklist and detailed appraisals of the most important Italian species, with 304 pages and numerous sketch maps. Softback £17.50.
Where to Watch Birds in Switzerland by Marco Sacchi, Peter Ruegg & Jacques Laesser. 1999. The latest in the Christopher Helm series: the first comprehensive guide to Switzerland, covering 45 major sites, with 176 pages and numerous maps. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 89. Softback £16.99.
(**August) A
Complete Guide to Arctic Wildlife by Richard Sale. The first comprehensive
guide to Arctic wildlife, informative and visually stunning, with 400 pages, 200
colour photographs and 200 maps. Hardback £40.00.
The Birds of Israel by Hadoram Shirihai. 1996. A sumptuous handbook, with 864 pages and c.500 colour photographs. An essential reference for all birders interested in Western Palearctic birds. Hardback £85.00.
A Guide to the Birding Hot-spots of Israel by Hadoram Shirihai, James P. Smith, Guy Kirwan and Dan Alon. 2000. A detailed site guide with many colour photographs. Two volumes - Northern Israel and Southern Israel. Reviewed in Birding World 14: 87. Softback £19.99. (The two volumes may be purchased separately, price £12.99 each.)
A Birdwatching Guide to Cyprus by Arthur Stagg & Graham Hearl. 1998. A good value Arlequin Press site guide. With 84 pages, numerous maps and 16 colour photographs. Softback £9.95.
Birds of the Mediterranean: a photographic guide by Paul Sterry. 2004. A comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of the Mediterranean region, with concise species texts on facing pages, with 192 pages and about 1,000 colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 261. Softback £19.99.
Identification Guide to European Passerines by Lars Svensson. 1992. Fourth edition. The standard, detailed, in-hand identification guide, with 368 pages. Softback £20.00.
Collins Bird Guide: Birds of Britain and Europe by Lars Svensson and Peter Grant, illustrated by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom. 1999. The long-awaited field guide: the new standard. Absolutely essential! Reviewed in Birding World 12: 254-255. Hardback £24.99, Softback £16.99.
LARGE FORMAT Collins Bird Guide: Birds of Britain and Europe by Lars Svensson and Peter Grant, illustrated by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom. 2000. The new standard guide, as above, but in large (approx. A4) size, doing full justice to the superb illustrations. Hardback £40.00.
The Birds of Morocco by Michel Thevenot, Rae Vernon and Patrick Bergier. 2003. A detailed BOU status on the birds of this popular birding country, with 600 pages and 32 colour plates. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 483. Hardback £45.00.
The Birds of Corsica by Jean-Claude Thibault and Gilles Bonaccorsi. 1999. A detailed BOU Check-list, with 182 pages, maps and 16 pages of colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 12: 340. Hardback £24.00.
Madeira: a countryside guide by John & Pat Underwood. 2002. Seventh edition. An access guide to the countryside of Madira, with 144 pages, numerous maps and colour photographs. Softback £9.99.
Where the birds are
in northeast Spain by Steve West. 2006. A detailed species-by-species site
guide to 114 species, with 270 pages, 28 colour maps and several colour
photographs and illustrations. Softback. £19.99.
Where to Watch Birds
in Europe and Russia by Nigel Wheatley. 2000. An overview of the best birdwatching sites, matching the style of the author's Africa, Asia, Australasia
and South America guides, with 464 pages and over 100 maps. Softback £16.99.
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Palearctic Birds: a Checklist of the Birds of Europe, North Africa & Asia by Mark Beaman. 1994. With 168 pages. Reviewed in Birding World 8: 158. Softback £12.50.
The Birds of Japan by Mark Brazil. 1991. The status of birds in Japan, with 466 pages, numerous distribution maps and six colour plates. Hardback £45.00.
The Avifauna of Hong Kong by Geoff Carey et al. 2001. The authoratative standard reference on the status of the birds of Hong Kong; beautifully produced, with 564 pages and 31 colour photographs. (Reviewed in Birding World 15: 87). Hardback £45.00.
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Hong Kong by Hong Kong Birdwatching Society. 2004. With concise dual English/Chinese identification and status text, 560 pages and 786 colour photographs of 343 species. Softback £24.99.
Wild Birds of Japan: a photographic guide by Takuya Kanouchi, Naoya Abe and Hideo Ueda. 1998. A superb photographic field guide to east Asian birds, with 624 pages and over 2,000 colour photographs. Text in Japanese, but with English and scientific name photo captions. Reviewed in Birding World 12: 339. Softback £29.99.
550 Birds of Japan by Masashi Kirihara, Norio Yamagata, Toshiyuki Yoshino & Himaru Iozawa. 2000. The newest and best photographic reference to Siberian and Eastern Palearctic birds, with 710 pages and hundreds of stunning colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 14: 349.Two volume softback set £55.00.
A photographic guide to the birds of China including Hong Kong by John MacKinnon and Nigel Hicks. 2001. 2nd edition. A compact and inexpensive photographic guide, with 144 pages featuring 252 species. Softback £7.99.
A Field Guide to the Birds of China by John MacKinnon and Karen Phillipps. 2000. The only real field guide to the birds of China, with 586 pages, 128 colour plates and colour species distribution maps. Softback £35.00.
The Feathers of Japanese Birds in Full Scale by Masaru Takada and Takuya Kanouchi. 2004. A sumptuous, beautiful Japanese reference, covering most Japanese species, indexed with English and scientific names, with 304 pages and colour photographs throughout. Hardback in Slipcase £95.00.
Birds of Hong
Kong and South China by Clive Viney, Karen Phillipps and Lam Chiu Ying. 2005.
Eighth edition. The best field guide for the Hong Kong region, including a brief
site guide, with 256 pages and 91 colour plates. Softback £22.95.
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Handbook of the Birds of India & Pakistan by Salim Ali and S. Dillon Ripley. 2002. The standard work - the complete, up-dated second edition, with 3,121 pages and numerous colour plates. 10 Softback Volumes in a Boxed Set £75.00.
Important Bird Areas
in Nepal by Hem Sagar Baral and Carol Inskipp. 2005. A detailed site guide,
with 242 pages, and numerous colour maps and photographs. Softback £25.00.
The Birds of Kangra by Jan Willem den Besten. 2004. A status and photographic guide to this Himalayan region of Himachal Pradesh, India, with 176 pages and colour photographs throughout. Softback £15.50.
A Birdwatcher's Guide to Malaysia by Richard Bransbury. 1993. With 282 pages, many sketch maps and 39 colour photographs. Softback £14.00.
A Photographic Guide
to the Snakes and other reptiles of Sri Lanka
by Indraneil Das. 2005. An inexpensive pocket guide with 300 colour photographs.
Softback £7.99.
A Photographic Guide to Birds of Borneo by G.W.H. Davison & Chew Yen Fook. 2002. A slim, good value pocket guide, with 144 pages and colour photographs of 252 species. Softback £7.99.
A Photographic Guide to Birds of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore by G.W.H. Davison & Chew Yen Fook. 1996. A slim, good value pocket guide, with numerous colour photographs of selected species. Reviewed in Birding World 9: 328. Softback £7.99.
A Photographic Guide to Birds of the Philippines by Tim Fisher and Nigel Hicks. 2000. A slim, good value pocket guide, with 144 pages and 250 colour photographs. Softback £7.99.
A Photographic Guide to Mammals of South-East Asia by Charles Francis. 2001. A superb value-for-money guide in the New Holland series of pocket photographic guides, with 128 pages and colour photographs of 192 species. Softback £7.99.
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan & Sri Lanka by Bikram Grewal, Bill Harvey and Otto Pfister. 2002. With 512 pages and 850 colour photographs of 800 species and distribution maps for each species. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 348-349. Softback £19.99.
A Photographic Guide to Birds of India and Nepal by Bikram Grewal. 1996. A slim, good value pocket guide, with numerous colour photographs of selected species. Reviewed in Birding World 9: 328. Softback £9.99.
A Photographic Guide to Birds of the Himalayas by Bikram Grewal & Otto Pfister. 1999. A slim, good value pocket guide, with numerous colour photographs of selected species. Reviewed in Birding World 12: 214. Softback £9.99.
Field Guide to the Birds of Northern India by Richard Grimmett and Tim Inskipp. 2003. A field guide version of Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, but covering just Northern India, with 304 pages and species texts opposite 120 colour plates. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 262. Softback, £19.99.
Field Guide to the
Birds of Southern India by Richard Grimmett and Tim Inskipp. 2005. A field guide
version of Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, but covering just Southern India,
with 240 pages and species texts opposite 87 colour plates. Softback, £24.99.
Pocket Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent by Richard Grimmet, Carol Inskipp & Tim Inskipp. 1999. A field guide sized version of the standard work by the same authors, with 384 pages, 153 colour plates illustrating 1,300 species and over 1,200 colour distribution maps. Softback £19.99.
Birds of Nepal by Richard Grimmet, Carol Inskipp & Tim Inskipp. 2000. A fine Helm field guide, with 288 pages and over 760 species illustrated in colour in 110 colour plates, with facing-page text. Softback £24.99.
A Field Guide to the Birds of Sri Lanka by John Harrison. 1999. The only modern field guide yo the birds of Sri Lanka, with 220 pages and 48 excellent colour plates by Tim Worfolk with facing-page coloured range maps and species text summaries. Softback, £35.00.
A Birdwatchers' Guide to Nepal by Carol Inskipp. 1988. A comprehensive Prion site guide, with 116 pages and 19 maps. Softback £12.75.
A Guide to the Birds of Nepal by Carol Inskipp & Tim Inskipp. 1991. Second edition. The standard work on the status of the birds of Nepal, with 402 pages, 703 distribution maps and eight colour plates. Hardback £40.00.
Field Guide to the Birds of West Malaysia and Singapore by Allen Jeyarajasingam and Alan Pearson. 1999. A major field guide, with 512 pages and every species and major plumage variation illustrated in colour. Reviewed in Birding World 12: 256. Softback £32.50.
Field Guide to Birds of the Indian Subcontinent by Krys Kazmierczak and Ber van Perlo. 2000. A pocket-sized guide to all 1300 species, with 352 pages, maps and 96 colour plates of all species. Hardback £25.00.
A Birdwatchers' Guide to India by Krys Kazmierczak and Raj Singh. 1998. A comprehensive Prion site guide, with about 300 pages and over 100 maps. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 483. Softback £18.75.
A Guide to the Birds of the Philippines by Robert Kennedy, Pedro Gonzales, Edward Dickinson and Tim Fisher. 2000. The new standard reference, and the first comprehensive modern field guide to the birds of the Philippines, with 320 pages, 72 colour plates illustrating all 556 recorded species, and colour distribution maps. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 469. Softback £37.50.
A Field Guide to the Birds of Korea by Woo-Shin Lee, Tae-Hoe Koo & Jin-Young Park. 2000. The first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Korea, true field-guide sized with 328 pages and colour plates and colur distribution maps facing text throughout. Reviewed in Birding World 14: 175. Reviewed in Birding World 14: 175. Hardback £24.95.
A Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali by John Mackinnon and Karen Phillipps. 1993. The standard field guide to the region, with 492 pages and 88 colour plates. Softback £36.00.
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Mt Kinabalu, Borneo by Hitoshi Nakayasu, Shigeru Asama and Alim Biun. 1996. An indispensible guide for the visitor to this popular birding destination, with 152 pages, useful tips on birding the area and colour photographs throughout. Softback £20.00.
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Birds of Prey of the Indian Subcontinent by Rishad Naoroji. A detailed guide
to 70 species of diurnal raptor, with 480 pages, 14 colour plates and over 850 colour photographs.
Hardback £40.00.
A Guide to the Large Mammals of Thailand by John Parr. 2003. A field guide to 138 species, with 206 pages, 39 excellent colour plates and species distribution maps. Softback £19.99.
Birds and Mammals of Ladakh by Otto Pfister. 2005. The first comprehensive field guide and status to the birds and mammals of this remote Himalayan region, with 362 pages and over 400 colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 18: 351. Hardback £49.95.
Birds of South Asia: the Ripley Guide by Pamela Rasmussen and John
Anderton. 2005. A comprehensive guide: Vol. 1, a field guide with 180 colour plates
and 1,430 colour maps; Vol. 2, the main texts, including morphology, and
sonograms for c.900 species. Hardback 2 volume set. £55.00.
A Field Guide to the Birds of Thailand by Craig Robson. 2002. A superb comprehensive field guide, with 272 pages and 128 colour plates and about 1,000 colour distribution maps. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 439. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 439. Hardback £24.99.
A Field Guide to the Birds of South East Asia by Craig Robson. 2000. A superb guide to all 1,250 species in Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Cambodia, with 504 pages and 104 colour plates by Clive Byers, Jan Wilczur, Tim Worfolk, Richard Allen & Ian Lewington. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 128. Softback £19.99.
New Holland Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia by Craig Robson.
2005. A
better designed, more concise, field guide version of the above, with 304 pages
and species texts facing 104 colour plates of over 1,250 species. Softback
£19.99.
A Photographic Guide to Birds of Sri Lanka by Gehan de Silva et al. 2000. A slim, good value pocket guide, with 136 pages and 240 colour photographs. Softback £7.99.
Birds in Bhutan:
status and distribution by Peter Spierenburg.
2005. An authoritative status to this
popular birding destination, with 384 pages and 950 colour maps and graphs.
Hardback £40.00.
Birds of South-east Asia: a photographic guide by Morten Strange. 1998. Not a comprehensive guide, but a good value large-format selection of 260 colour photographs, with 112 pages. Softback £12.99.
Birds
of Fraser’s Hill by Morten Strange. 2006. An inexpensive photographic guide
to 95 characteristic birds, and a complete checklist with status codes to this
most important Malaysian hill forest, with 120 pages. Softback £6.50.
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia including the Philippines and Borneo by Morten Strange. 2002. With 398 pages and over 700 colour photographs of 668 species and distribution maps for each species. Softback £19.99.
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia by Morten Strange. 2002. With 416 pages and almost 700 colour photographs of 686 species and distribution maps for each species. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 304. Softback £19.99.
Birds
of Taman Negara by Morten Strange and Dennis Yong. 2006. An inexpensive
photographic guide to 98 characteristic birds, and a complete checklist with
status codes to this most important Malaysian national park, with 120 pages.
Softback £6.50.
A Photographic Guide to Birds of Java, Sumatra and Bali by Tony Tilford and Alain Compost. 2000. A slim, good value pocket guide, with 136 pages and 240 colour photographs. Softback £7.99.
A Photographic Guide to Birds of Thailand by Michael Webster & Chew Yen Fook. 1997. A good value selection of colour photographs in a pocket guide. Softback £7.99.
Birds of the Thai-Malayan Peninsula Volume 1 Non-Passerines by David Wells. 1999. An authoritative reference covering distribution, ecology and identification, with 512 pages, maps and 70 superb colour plates. Reviewed in Birding World 12: 256. Volume 2 (Passerines) is in preparation and due in May 2006. Hardback £85.00.
(**June) Birds of the Thai-Malayan Peninsula Volume 2 Passerines by David Wells.
The completing, second volume of the
authoritative reference (above), with 704 pages, 400 maps and 64 superb colour
plates. Reviewed in Birding World 12: 256. Volume 2 (Passerines) is in
preparation and due in May 2006. Hardback £60.00. (Both volumes may also be
purchased together, £99.00.)
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A Photographic Guide to Birds of Prey of Southern, Central and East Africa by David Allan. 1996. A slim, good value pocket guide, with numerous colour photographs and colour flight paintings of 88 species. Softback £9.99.
Important Bird areas in Tanzania by Neil & Elizabeth Baker. 2002. A Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania birding site guide and vital conservation document in one, with 304 pages and numerous maps. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 43. Softback £30.00.
A Field Guide to the Birds of the Gambia by Clive Barlow and Tim Wacher. 1997. A fine guide to the birds of this very popular West African country, with 400 pages & 48 colour plates; also covers Senegal. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 119. Softback £24.99.
Important Bird areas in Kenya by Leon Bennun and Peter Njoroge. 2000. An excellent Birdlife International site guide, with 318 pages and 60 maps. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 168. Softback £18.00.
Birds of Western Africa by Nik Borrow and Ron Demey. 2001. The long-awaited first comprehensive guide to the region, with 816 pages, 147 colour plates and 1,100 distribution maps. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 350-351. Hardback £60.00.
Birds of Western Africa by Nik Borrow and Ron Demey. 2004. A lighter weight, field guide version of the authors' Birds of Western Africa (2001, above), with 512 pages, 150 colour plates and 1,300 distribution maps. Reviewed in Birding World 18: 307. Softback £29.99.
Essential birding: Western South Africa by Callan Cohen and Claire Spottiswoode. 2000. A site guide, with 136 pages and numerous maps and colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 14: 87. Softback £9.99.
The
Bird Atlas of Uganda by Margaret Carswell, Derek Pomeroy, Jake Reynolds and
Herbert Tushabe. 2005. A definitive, up-to-date status of every species recorded
in Uganda. 564 pages and distribution maps throughout. Hardback £55.00.
Southern
African Birdfinder by Callan Cohen, Claire Spottiswoode and Jonathan
Rossouw. 2006. A guide crammed with information on where to find 1,400 bird
species in southern Africa and Madagascar, with 456 pages, colour maps and
colour photographs throughout. Softback £19.99.
(**late
May) Birds of Malawi: An Atlas and Handbook by Francoise
Dowsett-Lemaire and Robert Dowsett. A new standard reference to the birds of
Malawi, with 556 pages, detailed species maps and 16 pages of colour
photographs. Softback £25.00.
Mammals of Madagascar by Nick Garbutt. 1999. A comprehensive guide, with 224 pages, 200 colour photographs and numerous maps. Hardback £35.00.
Madagascar Wildlife by Nick Garbutt, Hilary Bradt and Derek Schuurman. 2005. Third edition. A beautiful introduction, with 138 pages and excellent colour photographs throughout. Softback £14.95.
Birds of Liberia by Wulf Gatter. 1998. An authoritative avifauna, with 320 pages, distribution maps, 86 colour photographs and four colour plates. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 159. Hardback £40.00.
The Birds of Africa by Stuart Keith et al. 1982-2004. The standard work, each volume with numerous colour plates. Volumes 4, 5 & 7 were reviewed in Birding World 5: 404, 10: 357 & 17: 261. Volume 7. Sparrows to Buntings, completes this tremendous work. Hardback Volumes 1, 2, 3, 5 & 6 each £125.00. Vol. 7 each £135.00 (Volume 4 out of print).
Birds of Prey of Africa and its Islands by Allan Kemp. A comprehensive guide covering identification, distribution and behaviour, with 220 colour photographs and 500 colour paintings by Peter Hayman. Softback £19.99.
The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals by Jonathan Kingdon. 1997. This guide is far and away the best field guide to the great mammal continent, with very detailed text of all species and excellent colour illustrations. With 465 pages. Softback £29.99.
The Kingdon Pocket Guide to African Mammals by Jonathan Kingdon. 2004. A simpler, easier-to-use-in the-field version of the best guide: The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals (1997, above), with 272 pages, 112 colour plates and 250 maps. Reviewed in Birding World 18: 131. Softback £16.99.
Important
Bird Areas in Zambia by Peter Leonard. 2005. A conservation guide and a
birding site guide describing 42 Important Bird Areas in Zambia, including 18
National Parks, with detailed information on the birds and other fauna,
conservation issues and visitor information. With 218 pages, colour photographs,
detailed maps and checklists. Softback £14.00.
Birds of Madagascar: a photographic guide by Peter Morris & Frank Hawkins. 1998. A comprehensive guide, with 224 pages and 500 colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 443. Hardback £29.99.
Newman's Birds of Southern Africa by Kenneth Newman. 1999. Ninth edition. A fine field guide, with 510 pages and facing page colour plates, text and maps. Softback £19.99.
Birds of Western and Central Africa: Collins illustrated checklist by Ber van Perlo. 2002. A pocket field guide describing and illustrating all species, with 384 pages, distribution maps and 109 colour plates. The text is very concise, but this guide is a true field guide - ideal for use in the field. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 351. Softback £19.99.
Birds of Southern Africa: Collins illustrated checklist by Ber Van Perlo. 1999. A pocket field guide describing and illustrating all species, north to and including Angola, Zambia and Mozambique. The text is very concise, but this guide is a true field guide - ideal for use in the field. Softback £19.99.
A Guide to the Endemic Birds of Ethiopia and Eritrea by Jose Luis Pol. 2001. A colour photographic guide to the 30 endemic species, with 256 pages, with detailed text and distribution maps. Softback £17.00.
A Photographic Guide to Birds of East Africa by Dave Richards. A slim, good value pocket guide, with numerous colour photographs of selected species. Softback £9.99.
Where to Watch Birds in Uganda by Jonathan Rossouw & Marco Sacchi. 1998. A guide to the top national parks and reserves, with 110 pages, maps, full checklists and numerous colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 12: 339. Softback £10.99.
The Birds of St Helena by Beau W. Rowlands. A detailed BOU Check-list, with 295 pages. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 129. Hardback £25.00.
Birds of Africa south of the Sahara by Ian Sinclair and Peter Ryan. 2003. The first complete field guide to all the birds of Africa south of the Sahara., with 760 pages and species texts and distribution maps opposite 340 colour plates. Softback £29.99.
Field Guide to the Birds of Southern Africa by Ian Sinclair. 1994. 3rd edition. An excellent photographic field guide, with over 900 colour photographs facing text and distribution maps. Softback £14.99.
A Photographic Guide to Southern African Birds by Ian Sinclair. 1990. A slim, good value pocket guide, with numerous colour photographs of selected species. Softback £9.99.
A Photographic Guide to Birds of Namibia by Ian Sinclair and Jackie Sinclair. 1995. A slim, good value pocket guide, with numerous colour photographs of selected species. Softback £7.99.
Birds of Southern Africa by Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey & Warwick Tarboton. 1997. The best field guide to the region, with 445 pages, numerous distribution maps and over 200 colour plates. Softback £19.99.
Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands by Ian Sinclair & Olivier Langrand. 1998. A major field guide illustrating all the species of Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Rodrigues, the Seychelles and the Comoros, with 176 pages, 340 distribution maps and 65 colour plates. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 443. Softback £17.99.
(**late May)
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of the Indian
Ocean Islands by Ian Sinclair & Olivier Langrand. A photographic guide
to the birds of Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Rodrigues, the Seychelles and
the Comoros, with 128 pages. Softback £14.99.
Field Guide to the Birds of Seychelles by Adrian Skerrett and Ian Bullock. 2001. The first comprehensive field guide to the birds of the Seychelles, with 320 pages and 242 species illustrated in 53 colour plates by Tony Disley. Softback £25.00.
Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Terry Stevenson and John Fanshawe. 2001. An immensely important new guide, covering all the birds of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, with 500 pages of text and range maps facing 3,400 images of 1,388 species. Reviewed in Birding World 14: 521. Hardback £29.99, Softback £24.99.
The Larger Mammals of Africa by Chris and Tilde Stuart. 1997. An excellent photographic field guide, with facing-page text and distribution maps, 318 pages and over 400 colour photographs. Softback £17.99.
Field Guide to Mammals of Southern Africa by Chris and Tilde Stuart. 2001. Third edition. An excellent photographic field guide, with facing-page text and distribution maps, 318 pages and over 500 colour photographs. Softback £14.99.
Birds of Africa by Chris and Tilde Stuart. 1999. A general review of the birds of Africa, with 176 pages and 200 colour photographs. Hardback £24.99.
A Birdwatchers' Guide to the Gambia by Rod Ward. 1994. A comprehensive Prion site guide to this most popular tropical birding destination, with 116 pages and numerous maps. Softback £12.75.
Southern African Wildlife by Mike Unwin. 2005. Second edition. A beautiful introduction to the wildlife and summary of the key national parks and reserves, with 284 pages and excellent colour photographs throughout. Softback £18.95.
Birds of Kenya and
Northern Tanzania by Dale Zimmerman, Don Turner & David Pearson. 1996. The
definitive guide, with 752 pages, 124 colour plates and 1,058 distribution maps.
Hardback £50.00.
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The Birder's Guide to Vancouver and the Lower Mainland by Catherine Aitchison. 2001. An up-to-date and comprehensive site guide produced by Vancouver Natural History Society, with 240 pages, occurrence charts and numerous maps and colour photographs. Softback £13.99.
National
Geographic Complete Birds of North America edited by Jonathan Alderfer.
2005. The superb essential new reference: a ‘Handbook’ version of the standard
field guide, fully up-to-date, with far more detail, with 672 pages and colour
throughout. Hardback £24.95.
Woodpeckers
of North America by Frances Backhouse. 2006. An attractive monograph of the
North American species, with large-format colour photographs throughout and 232
pages. Hardback £30.50.
Birding Georgia by Giff Beaton. 2000. A site guide to over 100 of best birding locations in Georgia, with 278 pages and numerous maps. Softback £23.50.
A Guide to Bird Finding in New Jersey by William J. Boyle Jr. 2002. Second edition A detailed site guide, with 492 pages and numerous maps. Softback £17.95.
Hawaii: The Ecotravellers' Wildlife Guide by Les Beletsky. 2000. A guide to the most common amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds, in the same series as 'Tropical Mexico', 'Costa Rica' etc, with 416 pages. Softback £15.00.
Birding
North Carolina by M. Brook and M. Johns. 2005. A detailed site guide to the
44 best birding localities in the state, with 224 pages, maps and photographs.
Softback £10.95.
A Birder's Guide to the Chicago Region by Lynne Carpenter and Joel Greenberg. 1999. A detailed site guide to 250 sites within a 65-male radius of Chicago, with 242 pages and numerous maps. Softback £21.50.
A Birder’s Guide to Michigan by Allen Chartier and Jerry Ziarno. 2004. An up-to-date, definitive ABA site guide covering over 200 sites, with 672 pages and over 200 maps. Softback £23.99.
A Birder's Guide to Planning North American Trips by Jerry Cooper. 1995. Real detail on the key areas: how to see almost all of North America's birds in just a year, with 374 pages and 52 maps. Reviewed in Birding World 9: 37. Softback £21.00.
A Birder's Guide to New Hampshire by Alan Delorey. 1996. The comprehensive American Birding Association site guide, with 222 pages and numerous maps. Softback £18.50.
Birdwatching: Discovery travel adventures edited by Judith Dunham. 2000. A glossy 'Where to watch Birds' introduction to the best birding sites in North America, with 224 pages and numerous colour photographs and maps. Softback £14.99.
A Photographic Guide to Birds of Southern Florida by Michael Flieg and Allan Sander. 2002. A slim, good value pocket guide, with 144 pages and colour photographs of 248 species. Softback £7.99.
A Birder's Guide to Southern California by Harold Holt. 1998 revised edition. The comprehensive American Birding Association site guide. Softback £25.95.
A Birder's Guide to the Texas Coast by Harold Holt. 1993. The comprehensive American Birding Association site guide. Softback £18.50.
A Birder's Guide to Colorado by Harold Holt. 1997. The comprehensive American Birding Association site guide. Reviewed in Birding World 10: 157. Softback £21.00.
A Birder's Guide to Virginia by David Johnston. 1997. The comprehensive American Birding Association site guide, with 288 pages and 45 maps. Reviewed in Birding World 10: 279. Softback £18.50.
Advanced Birding by Kenn Kaufman. 1990. The most detailed yet handy and inexpensive reference guide to the identification of North Amerca's more difficult species. With 298 pages and numerous line drawings. Reviewed in Birding World 3: 318. Softback £11.99.
Mammals of North America by Roland Kays and Don Wilson. 2002. A superb field guide: 108 beautiful colour plates facing pages of concise species texts and distribution maps. Hardback £35.00, Softback £13.95.
Birding Northern California by John Kemper. 1999. A site guide to almost 300 of the best birding locations in Northern California, with 408 pages and 102 maps. Softback £19.50.
A Birder's Guide to the Metropolitan Areas of North America by Paul Lehman. 2002. A comprehensive American Birding Association site guide to birding areas around the key cities of North America, with 508 pages and 171 maps. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 307. Softback £25.95.
A Birder's Guide to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas by Mark W. Lockwood et al. Third edition.1999. The comprehensive American Birding Association site guide, with 280 pages and 43 maps. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 90. Softback £25.95.
Birding Sites of
Nova Scotia by Blake Maybank. 2005. An up-to-date and detailed bird-finding
guide, with 574 pages and numerous maps. Softback £29.99.
Birding Washington by Rob and Natilie McNair-Huff. 2004. A guide to the 70 best birding sites in Washington state, with 400 pages, maps and photographs. Softback £12.95.
America's 100 Most Wanted Birds by Steven Mlodinow and Michael O'Brien. 1996. How to find 100 of the rarest birds in the USA: Kirtland's Warbler, Lucifer Hummingbird, Blue-footed Booby and 97 others, with 496 pages and 82 colour photographs. Softback £23.00.
Field Guide to the Birds of North America by National Geographic Society. 2002. Fourth Edition. This standard field guide was very considerably revised and up-dated with the third edition in 1999 (with 80 new species, some 35 new plates and many other changes). This new fourth edition includes 250 up-dated distribution maps and up-dated species classification, with 480 pages and colour plates throughout. The third edition was reviewed in Birding World 12: 296. Softback £14.99.
National Geographic Birder's Journal. 1999. An illustrated North American checklist, with black-and-white versions of the third edition field guide plates facing sections for inserting dates and locations. Reviewed in Birding World 12: 296. Softback £12.95.
A Birder’s Guide to Washington by Hal Opperman. 2003. A detailed bird finding guide in the acclaimed ABA series, with 636 pages and numerous sketch-maps. Softback £25.95.
Shorebirds of North America by Dennis Paulson. 2005. A detailed photographic identification and ageing reference to all the waders recorded in North America (so including many Asian migrants), with over 530 superb colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 18: 175. Softback £24.99.
Shorebirds of the Pacific Northwest by Dennis Paulson. 1998. Softback edition. A detailed identification and ageing reference to North American waders, with 406 pages and numerous superb colour photographs. Softback £22.50.
Alaska: The Ecotravellers' Wildlife Guide by Dennis Paulson and Les Beletsky. 2001. A guide to the Natural History of the region in the same series as 'Costa Rica', 'Tropical Mexico' etc, with 430 pages. Softback £15.00.
A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific by H. Douglas Pratt, Phillip Bruner & Delwyn Berrett. 1987. With 410 pages and 43 colour plates. (Hardback £60.00) Softback £32.50.
The Summer Atlas of North American Birds by Jeff Price, Sam Proege & Amy Price. 1995. The standard distribution of North American breeding birds, with 350 pages and 450 species maps. Reviewed in Birding World 8: 359. Hardback £45.00.
A Field Guide to the Birds of Bermuda by André Raine. 2004. A complete guide, including checklist and status, with 146 pages and numerous excellent colour photographs. Softback £7.95.
A Guide to the Birds of the Southeastern States by John H. Rappole.
2006. A
field and site guide to Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, with 366
pages, 379 maps and 420 colour photographs. Softback £19.50.
A Birder's Guide to Wyoming by Oliver K. Scott. 1993. The comprehensive American Birding Association site guide, with 246 pages and numerous maps. Softback £18.50.
The North American Bird Guide by David Sibley. 2000. This long-awaited guide is, as expected, superb and a 'must' for anyone interested in North American birds - or North American vagrants to Europe. With over 6,000 outstanding colour illustrations. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 380. Softback £25.00.
Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America by David Sibley. 2003. The artwork and maps from The North American Bird Guide (Sibley 2000, above), with new, more detailed text and covering just the east, so smaller and better for the field, and at a bargain price, with 432 pages. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 393. Softback £14.99.
Field Guide to the Birds of Western North America by David Sibley. 2003. The artwork and maps from The North American Bird Guide (Sibley 2000, above), with new, more detailed text and covering just the west, so smaller and better for the field, and at a bargain price, with 464 pages. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 393. Softback £14.99.
The Sibley Guide: Bird Life & Behaviour by David Sibley. 2001. A companion to the same author's North American Bird Guide looking at all aspects of bird life, with 608 pages and illustrations throughout. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 41. Hardback £35.00.
The Birdwatcher's Guide to Hawai'i by Rick Soehren. 1996. A comprehensive site guide, with 216 pages, colour and black-and-white photographs and several maps. Softback £14.99.
A Birder's Guide to Idaho by Dan Svingen and Kas Dumroese. 1997. The comprehensive American Birding Association site guide, with 340 pages and numerous maps. Softback £18.50.
A Birder's Guide to Southeastern Arizona by R.C. Taylor. 2005 revised edition. The updated comprehensive American Birding Association guide, with 384 pages and numerous maps. Softback £21.95.
Birding Illinois by Sheryl De Vore. 2000. A site guide to 110 of the best birding locations in Midwest USA. Softback £23.00.
Birding Texas by Roland Wauer and Mark Elwonger. 1998. A very comprehensive site guide to 120 of the best sites in one of the best birding states, with 525 pages and 131 maps; includes a detailed status and distribution checklist. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 43. Softback £21.00.
A Birder's Guide to Alaska by George C. West. 2002. A new, comprehensive American Birding Association site guide , with 586 pages and 120 maps. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 130. Softback £25.95.
A Photographic Guide to North American Raptors by Brian Wheeler & William Clark. 1995. Covers all 43 species, with 198 pages and 377 colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 8: 397. Softback £19.99.
A Birder's Guide to the Bahama Islands by Anthony White. 1998. The comprehensive American Birding Association site guide, with 302 pages and numerous maps. Softback £27.50.
National Geographic Guide to Birdwatching Sites: Volume 1 Eastern USA, Volume 2 Western USA by Mel White. 1999. These two volumes provide an excellent introduction to the best birdwatching sites in the USA, each with over 100 colour photographs and regional maps. Softback, each £14.99.
A Birder's Guide to Arkansas by Mel White. 1995. The comprehensive American Birding Association site guide, with 260 pages and numerous maps. Softback £18.50.
Birding in the
American West by Kevin. J. Zimmer. 2000. A readable and very useful companian
for anyone visiting the western half of North America: a handbook, site guide
and identification puzzle solver. Reviewed in Birding World 14: 522. Softback
£20.95.
CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN AREA
Travellers' Wildlife Guides: Costa Rica by Les Beletsky. 2005 edition. Published in 1998 as 'The Ecotraveller's Wildlife Guide'. A superb and detailed summary of the wildlife, with 414 pages, 20 colour photographs of habitats and 80 excellent colour identification plates (50 of birds). Softback £18.99.
Belize and Northern Guatemala (Tikal): The Ecotravellers' Wildlife Guide by Les Beletsky. 1999. A guide to almost 500 of the most common amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds, and coral reef life, with 400 pages and 80 excellent colour plates. Reviewed in Birding World 12: 85. Softback £15.00.
Tropical Mexico: The Ecotravellers' Wildlife Guide by Les Beletsky. 1999. A guide to the most common amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds, and coral reef life, with 498 pages and 104 excellent colour plates. Reviewed in Birding World 12: 213. Softback £15.00.
The Birds of the Cayman Islands by Patricia E. Bradley. 2001. A definitive BOU Checklist, with 253 pages and 71 colour photographs. Hardback £35.00.
A Birdwatching Guide to Bermuda by Andrew Dobson. 2002. An Arlequin Press site guide. Softback £13.95.
Birds of the Eastern Caribbean by Peter Evans. 1990. A review of all the commoner species of the region, with 162 pages, numerous colour photographs and a useful checklist of occurrence on the individual islands. Softback £6.75.
A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago by Richard Ffrench. 1991. Second edition, with 464 pages and 29 colour plates. Softback £35.00.
A Photographic Guide to Birds of the West Indies by Michael Flieg and Allan Sander. 2000. A slim, good value pocket guide, with 144 pages and 300 colour photographs. Softback £7.99.
A Photographic Guide
to Birds of Costa Rica by Susan Fogden. 2005. An inexpensive pocket guide
with excellent colour photographs by Michael & Patricia Fogden of over 250
species, with 144 pages. Softback £7.99.
A Field Guide to the Birds of Cuba by Orlando Garrido and Arturo Kirkconnell. 2000. The first field guide devoted to the birds of Cuba, with 272 pages, 145 maps and 51 colour plates of all 350 species by Roman Company. Softback £19.99.
Where to Watch Birds in Mexico by Steve Howell. 1999. A detailed site guide, with 512 pages and 95 maps. Softback £19.99.
A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America by Steve Howell and Sophie Webb. 1995. By far the best identification guide to the region. With 852 pages and 71 colour plates. Softback £41.00.
Birds of Belize by H. Lee Jones. 2004. The first complete field guide to the birds of Belize, with 484 pages, species distribution maps and 56 colour plates by Dana Gardner. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 351. Softback £29.99.
The Birds of Hispaniola by Allan Keith, James Wiley, Steven Latta and Jose Ottenwalder. 2003. A detailed BOU status on the birds of this Caribbean island, with 294 pages and 70 colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 131. Hardback £30.00.
The Birds of St Lucia by Allan Keith. 1997. A detailed BOU check-list, with 176 pages, several maps and 40 colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 10: 280. Hardback £22.00.
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Birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti by Steve Latta, James Wiley,
Christopher Rimmer, Herbert Raffaele, Allan Keith, Kent McFarland & Eladio
Fernandez. The first detailed field guide devoted to the island of Hispaniola,
with 364 pages and 57 colour plates. Softback £24.99.
A Birdwatchers' Guide to Trinidad & Tobago by William L. Murphy. 3rd edition. 2004. A thoroughly revised third edition of the standard site guide to these popular birding destinations, with 172 pages and numerous maps and black-and-white photographs. Softback, £14.75.
Puerto Rico's Birds in Photographs by Mark Oberle. 2000. Second edition. An excellent guide, with over 300 colour photographs of 181 species, 132 pages, and a CD-ROM containing extensive species life histories and 1,250 colour photographs. Softback plus CD-ROM £28.00.
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Collins Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Central America by Ber van
Perlo. A compact identification guide to every species in the region, with all
plumages of all over 1,500 species illustrated. Softback £20.00.
Birds of the West Indies by Herbert Raffaele, James Wiley, Orlando Garrido, Allan Keith & Janis Raffaele. 1998. A fine Helm guide, with 511 pages, 86 colour plates and distribution maps of all species. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 404. Hardback £40.00.
Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies by Herbert Raffaele, James Wiley, Orlando Garrido, Allan Keith & Janis Raffaele. 2003. A field guide version of the above, using the same colour plates, with concise species texts on facing pages, with 224 pages, 92 colour plates and distribution maps of all species. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 393. Softback £16.99.
A Field Guide to the Mammals of Central America & SE Mexico by Fiona Reid. 2001. An excellent, comprehensive guide, with 334 pages, species range maps and 48 superb colour plates. Softback £23.99.
A Guide to the Birds of Panama by Robert Ridgely & John Gwynne Jr. 1989. With 608 pages and 48 colour plates. (Hardback £53.50) Softback £35.00.
A Travel and Site Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica by Aaron Sekerak. 1996. An excellent guide, with 256 pages and numerous maps. Reviewed in Birding World 10: 157. Softback £16.95.
A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica by Gary Stiles, Alexander Skutch & Dana Gardner. 1989. With 656 pages and 52 colour plates of all species. Softback £40.00.
Where to Watch Birds
in Central America and the Caribbean by Nigel Wheatley and David Brewer. 2002.
An overview of the best birdwatching sites, matching the style of the author's
Africa, Asia, Australasia and South America guides, covering 215 sites in
detail, with 436 pages and numerous maps. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 131.
Softback £16.99.
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A Guide to the Birds of Peru by James Clements & Noam Shany. 2001. Further expanded from the original announcements into a true field guide to all 1,800 species, with almost all illustrated in 128 colour plates by Eustace Barnes and Dana Gardner. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 303. Softback £40.00.
Birds of Guyana by Robert Fernandes and Balram Singh. 2004. An inexpensive photographic guide to the commoner birds of this English-speaking country, with 90 pages and numerous colour photographs. Softback £7.95.
Birds of the High Andes by Jon Fjeldsa and Niels Krabbe. 1990. The classic, standard field guide, with 880 pages and 64 colour plates illustrating almost 1,000 species. Hardback £107.00.
Birding in Venezuela by Mary Lou Goodwin. 2003. A completely revised and up-dated edition of the acclaimed site guide, with 336 pages and numerous maps. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 395. Softback £15.00.
Galapagos Diary by Hermann Heinzel and Barnaby Hall. 2000. A complete guide to the archipelago's birdlife; a virtual tour in photographs and sketches, including field guide and checklist. Softback £16.99.
Birds of Venezuela by Steven Hilty. 2002. A completely revised edition of A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela (de Schauensee 1978), with completely new text, 896 pages, 67 colour plates (27 of them new) and 1,370 distribution maps. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 129-130. Softback £40.00.
A Guide to the Birds of Colombia by Steven Hilty & William Brown. 1986. With 836 pages and 56 colour plates. (Hardback £83.50) Softback £42.95.
Birds of Tropical America: a watcher’s introduction to behaviour, breeding & diversity by Steven Hilty. 2005. A fascinating look beyond the field guide by the acclaimed Neotropical expert and professional tour guide, with 312 pages. Softback £12.95.
Galapagos Wildlife by David Horwell and Pete Oxford. 2005. Second edition. A beautiful introduction to the wildlife and natural history, with 140 pages and excellent colour photographs throughout. Softback £15.99.
Field Guide to the Birds of Chile by Alvaro Jaramillo. 2003. The first complete field guide to the birds of Chile, with 240 pages and species texts opposite 97 colour plates by Peter Burke and David Beadle. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 86. Softback £19.99.
Birds of Argentina & Uruguay: A Field Guide by Tito Narosky & Dario Yzurieta. 2003. 15th edition. The only complete field guide to the birds of Argentina & Uruguay, with 348 pages and species texts and distribution maps opposite colour plates. Softback £34.99.
Travellers' Wildlife Guides: Brazil: Amazon & Pantanal by David L. Pearson and Les Beletsky. 2005 edition. Published in 2002 as 'The Ecotraveller's Wildlife Guide'. A superb and detailed summary of the wildlife, with 492 pages, numerous colour photographs and 102 excellent colour identification plates (56 of birds). Softback £18.99.
Travellers' Wildlife Guides: Ecuador by David L. Pearson and Les Beletsky. 2005 edition. Published in 2000 as 'The Ecotraveller's Wildlife Guide'. A superb and detailed summary of the wildlife, with 476 pages, 15 colour photographs of habitata and 58 excellent colour identification plates (56 of birds). Softback £18.99.
Travellers' Wildlife Guides: Peru by David L. Pearson and Les Beletsky. 2005 edition. Published in 2001 as 'The Ecotraveller's Wildlife Guide'. A superb and detailed summary of the wildlife, with 492 pages, numerous colour photographs and 95 excellent colour identification plates (61 of birds). Softback £18.99.
Collins Illustrated Checklist: Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica by Martin R. de la Pena and Maurice Rumboll. 1998. A major field guide, with 1,140 species illustrated in colour: every species in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil, with distribution maps. Softback £25.00.
The Birds of Ecuador by Robert Ridgely and Paul Greenfield. 2001. A vital new reference. In two volumes: The text largely in Vol. 1, with 768 pages, and the field guide section in Vol. 2, with 816 pages, 96 colour plates and about 1600 distribution maps. Reviewed in Birding World 14: 349. Two volumes. Softback (Vol.1 £60.00; Vol. 2 £40.00.) £85.00.
Checklist of the Birds of Northern South America by Clemencia Rodner, Robin Restall and Miguel Lentino. 2000. An up-to-date annotated checklist of all the bird species in Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago, with information on subspecies, distribution, altitudinal range, taxonomy and references. It will be a compaion to the forthcoming Birds of Northern South America by the same authors. With 144 pages. Softback £16.99.
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Birds of Northern South America by Robin Restall, Clemencia Rodner, Miguel
Lentino and Rob Williams. A comprehensive two-volume work covering Ecuador,
Colombia and Venezuela to French Guiana. Volume 1 covers Identification,
Distribution & Taxonomy, with 608 pages. Volume 2 is the Field Guide, with 576
pages, 260 colour plates with over 6,000 images of over 2,250 species, and
species distribution maps. The volumes may be purchased separately: Volume 1
£45.00 and Volume 2 £30.00. Softback 2 Volumes £75.00.
A Visitor's Guide to the Falkland Islands by Debbie Summers. 2006. Second edition. A site guide to the birds and other Natural History of these famous wildlife islands, ringbound with 130 pages, superb colour photographs throughout and excellent maps. Softback £12.50.
A Guide to the Birds, Mammals and Reptiles of the Galapagos Islands by Andy Swash and Robert Still. 2005. 2nd Edition. A comprehensive guide, with 168 pages and 53 colour plates using a stunning new digital photographic technique, facing-page text and colour maps. Softback £16.99.
Chasing Neotropical
Birds by Vera and Bob Thornton. 2005. The stories of bird photography trips
to key destinations throughout Central and South America, with 240 pages and a
sumptuous colour photograph on almost every page. Hardback £22.95.
Where to Watch Birds in Peru by Thomas Valqui. 2004. A detailed site guide, with 382 pages, colour photographs, black-and-white illustrations and numerous maps. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 528. Softback £19.99.
Where to Watch Birds in South America by Nigel Wheatley. 1994. An indispensible trip-planning guide, with 432 pages and numerous maps. Softback £16.99.
Birds and Mammals of
the Falkland Islands by Robin and Anne Woods. 2006. An attractive, handy
guide, with 144 pages and colour photographs throughout. Hardback £17.95.
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AUSTRALASIA, PACIFIC & ANTARCTICA
Where to Find Birds in Australia by John Bransbury. 1987. The only really comprehensive site guide to this great birding continent, covering a huge number of sites in real detail, with 540 pages, with numerous colour photographs and maps. Softback £16
Birds of New Zealand - Locality Guide by Stuart Chambers. Second edition. 2000. A photographic field guide and site guide combined, with 408 pages, numerous colour photographs and over 300 sites documented. Softback £22.95.
Birds of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago: A Photographic Guide by Brian J. Coates in collaboration with William S. Peckover. 2001. The first photographic guide to the region, with 272 pages and over 650 colour photographs, many of species illustrated in photographs for the first time. Softback £35.00.
A Guide to the Birds of Wallacea , Sulawesi, the Moluccas and Lesser Sundas, Indonesia by Brian J. Coates and David Bishop. 1997. The only complete field guide to the birds of the eastern Indonesian islands of Wallacea, with 535 pages and 64 colour plates illustrating 698 species. Hardback £35.00.
Field Guide to the Birds of the Solomons, Vanuatu and New Caledonia by Chris Doughty, Nicolas Day and Andrew Plant. 1999. The first field guide to the region, with 206 pages, 91 colour plates depicting every species and 340 colour species distribution maps. Softback £24.95.
Birds of Australia Photographic Field Guide by Jim Flegg. Second edition. 2002. A comprehensive set of colour photographs, with 368 pages, facing-page text and distribution maps. Softback £15.99.
Birds and Bird Lore of Bougainville and the North Solomons by Don Hadden. 2004. A detailed account of the birds of this region east of New Guinea, with 312 pages, over 200 colour photographs and 25 paintings by Peter Slater and Dana Gardner. Softback £22.00.
Kingfishers and Kookaburras: Jewels of the Australian Bush by David Hollands. 1999. A fine monograph to all 10 Australian species, with 144 pages and 100 superb colour photographs. Hardback £19.99.
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds. Stephen Marchant & P.J. Higgins. 1990-2003. The standard work, with superb colour plates by J.N. Davies. Volume 6 covers Pardalotes to Shrike Thrushes, with 1,300 pages and numerous colour plates & maps. Volume 5 covers flycatchers and Australian Wrens to Honeyeaters and Chats, with 1,056 pages and numerous colour plates and maps. Volumes 1, 2 & 3 were reviewed in Birding World 4: 330-331, 7: 375 & 9: 411. Volume 4 covers Parrots to Dollarbirds. Further volumes are in preparation. Hardback Volume 1 (in two volumes!) £225.00, Volumes 2-6 £190.00 each.
**Volume7 due
June 2006 (edited by Peter Higgins, John Peter and Sid Cowling) is the final
volume (actually in two parts) of this epic standard work; it completes the
passerines, with 2,056 pages, maps and 54 colour plates. Volume 7 £245.00.
Finding Birds in Darwin, Kakadu and the Top End: Northern Territory Australia by Niven McCrie and James Watson. 2003. A detailed bird finding guide, with 160 pages and numerous sketch-maps. Softback £17.50.
A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia by Peter Menkhorst. 2001. A truly excellent comprehensive field guide, with species texts facing superb colour plates and distribution maps of all 379 species by Frank Knight. With 270 pages. Softback £17.99.
A Photographic Guide to Birds of New Zealand by Geoff Moon. 2002. A slim, good value pocket guide, with 144 pages and 250 colour photographs. Softback £7.99.
Field Guide to Australian Birds by Michael Morcombe. Complete Compact Edition. 2004. Second edition. An excellent, complete pocket guide, with 386 pages, with maps, texts and colour paintings together throughout. Reviewed in Birding World 18: 131. Softback £24.99.
Field Guide to New Zealand Seabirds by Brian Parkinson. 2000. A fine and inexpensive photographic guide to New Zealand's very many seabirds (eg three-quarters of the world's albatrosses and petrels), with 136 pages, 116 colour photographs and 108 maps. Softback £12.99.
A Visitor’s Guide to
South Georgia by Sally Ponset and Kim Crocbie. 2006. The first detailed
guide to the islands, in ring-bound format, with 180 pages and colour
photographs, illustrations and maps throughout. Softback £17.95
The Hand Guide to the Birds of New Zealand by Hugh Robertson and Barrie Heather. 2001. A highly portable version of the standard field guide to New Zealand birds, with 176 pages and 74 colour plates of all species. Softback £19.50.
A Photographic Guide to Birds of Australia by Peter Rowland. 1995. A slim, good value pocket guide, with 144 pages and 250 colour photographs. Softback £10.99.
A Field Guide to the Birds of Australia by Ken Simpson and Nicolas Day. 2004. Seventh edition. The best field guide, with 382 pages and 132 colour plates. Softback £19.99.
The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds by Peter Slater, Pat Slater and Raoul Slater. 2002. Second edition. An excellent, complete pocket guide, with 344 pages with maps and texts facing the colour plates throughout. Softback £14.99.
Antarctica: A Guide to the Wildlife by Tony Soper. 2004. Fourth edition. An introduction, with 144 pages and colour illustrations throughout. Softback £14.95.
A Photographic Guide to Mammals of Australia by Ronald Strahan. 1995. A slim, good value pocket guide, with 134 pages and 168 colour photographs. Softback £10.99.
The Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia by Richard Thomas & Sarah Thomas. 1996. Details of over 180 of the best sites, with 280 pages and many maps. Reviewed in Birding World 10: 157. Softback £13.95.
A Guide to the Birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia by Dick Watling. 2002. The first complete field guide to the region, with 272 pages and all the regular species illustrated in 16 colour plates by Chloe Talbot-Kelly. Softback £19.95.
Birds of Fiji, Tonga & Samoa by Dick Watling. 1982. An earlier version of the above, in large (A4) format, with 176 pages, 28 colour photographs of habitats, 15 colour plates of the birds by Chloe Talbot-Kelly, and distribution maps for most species. Hardback £48.75.
The Best of Australian Birds by Dave Watts. 1999. A large format (278mm x 247mm) superb collection of 140 truly stunning colour photographs, concentrating on non-passerines, with 128 pages. Hardback £15.99.
Field Guide to Tasmanian Birds by Dave Watts. 1999. A handy, supplementary photographic field guide to the birds of Tasmania, with 192 pages and 186 colour photographs. Softback £15.99.
Where to Watch Birds in Australasia & Oceania by Nigel Wheatley. 1998. An overview of the best birdwatching sites, matching the author's Africa, Asia and South America guides, with 448 pages and over 100 maps. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 159. Hardback £16.99.
A Field Guide to the
Insects of Australia edited by Paul Zborowski and Ross Storey. 1999. In
introduction and practical field guide to the insects of Australia, with 206
pages and over 240 colour photographs. Softback £14.99.
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Pipits and Wagtails of Europe, Asia and North America by Per Alstrom and Krister Mild. 2003. A fine, particularly detailed Helm monograph, with 496 pages, 30 excellent colour plates, 240 colour photographs and 32 maps. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 307. Hardback £48.00.
Warblers of Europe, Asia and North Africa by Kevin Baker. 1997. A Christopher Helm/A. & C. Black identification guide covering 145 species and all their races in detail (note the Asian coverage), with 400 pages and 48 colour plates. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 118. Hardback £35.00.
Sparrows of the United States and Canada: The Photographic Guide by James David Beadle and James Rising. 2001. A photographic, detailed identification companion to the acclaimed 'A Guide to the Sparrows of the United States and Canada' (Rising & Beadle 1996), with 500 pages and 350 excellent colour photographs. Softback £19.95.
Flight Identification of European Seabirds by Anders Blomdahl, Bertil Breife and Niklas Holmstrom. 2003. A unique photographic guide for seawatchers, with 374 pages and 690 colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 308. Softback £35.00.
The Whooper Swan by Mark Brazil. 2003. A fine new monograph in the T. & A.D. Poyser series, with 512 pages and including colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 86. Hardback, £45.00.
Wrens, Dippers and Thrashers by David Brewer. 2001. A superbly detailed Christopher Helm guide, with 256 pages, maps and 32 colour plates of all 75 wrens, 34 thrashers and five dippers by Barry Kent Mackay. Hardback £40.00.
Albatrosses and Petrels across the World by Michael Brooke. 2004. A fine volume in the Bird Families of the World series from OUP, with 448 pages, 16 colour plates by John Cox, numerous black-and-white illustrations and 168 maps. Includes information on behaviour, biology and conservation. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 528. Hardback £95.00.
Tundra Plovers by Ingvar Brykjedal and Des Thompson. 1998. A new, standard T. & A.D. Poyser monograph covering the Eurasian, American and Pacific Golden Plovers and Grey Plover. Hardback £35.00.
Buntings and Sparrows by Clive Byers, Urban Olsson & Jon Curson. 1995. Covering all the world's buntings and Nearctic sparrows, with 256 pages and 39 colour plates by Clive Byers. Christopher Helm series. Reviewed in Birding World 9: 159-160. Hardback £35.00.
Swifts by Phil Chantler. 2000. Second edition. A Christopher Helm Guide, with 272 pages, maps and 24 colour plates by Gerald Driessens. This second edition includes considerable new text material, plus revisions to the artwork and maps. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 129. Hardback £35.00.
Sunbirds and Flowerpeckers by Bob Cheke, Clive Mann and Richard Allen. 2001. A superb Christopher Helm Guide, with 384 pages, maps and 48 stunning colour plates by Richard Allen. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 129. Hardback £40.00.
Finches and Sparrows by Peter Clement, Alan Harris & John Davis. 1993. The standard reference, covering all the world's species, with 512 pages and 73 colour plates. Helm series. Reviewed in Birding World 6: 496. Softback £24.99.
Thrushes by Peter Clement, Ren Hathway, Jan Wilczur and Clive Byers. 2000. A fine Helm monograph, with 464 pages, over 160 maps and 60 stunning colour plates of all 162 species. Reviewed in Birding World 14: 130. Hardback £40.00.
Nightjars by Nigel Cleere and David Nurney. 1998. A standard Christopher Helm reference, covering all the world's species, with 256 pages and 36 superb colour plates. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 403. Hardback £35.00.
New World Warblers by Jon Curson, David Beadle & David Quinn. 1994. The standard reference, covering all the world's species, with 264 pages and 36 colour plates. Helm series. Reviewed in Birding World 7: 294. Hardback £35.00.
Cuckoos, Cowbirds and other Cheats by N.B. Davies. 2000. A fine T. & A.D. Poyser monograph describing the natural history of the brood parasites, with 320 pages, 8 pages of colour photographs and 25 line drawings by David Quinn. Hardback £29.95.
Ratites and Tinamous by Stephen Davies. 2002. A fine OUP Bird Families of the World monograph covering all 55 species in these groups, with 336 pages and colour plates by Michael Bamford. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 304. Hardback £65.00.
Curassows and related birds by Jean Delacour and Dean Amadon. 2004. A new edition of the classic 1973 monograph, with 476 pages, 56 original and new sumptuous, full-page colour plates by Albert Earl Gilbert and the appropriate colour plates from HBW (del Hoyo et al.). Hardback £42.50.
The Penguins by Lloyd Davis and Martin Renner. 2003. A fine new monograph looking at the natural history of penguins, with 212 pages and including colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 87. Hardback, £35.00.
The Skylark by Paul Donald. 2004. A detailed Poyser monograph, with 264 pages and colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 262. Hardback £35.00.
A Field Guide to Warblers of North America by Jon Dunn & Kimball Garrett. 1997. A superbly detailed guide that is also excellent value for money, with 656 pages, 32 colour plates and 141 colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 117. Softback £11.95.
Starlings and Mynas by Chris Feare & Adrian Craig. 1998. The standard reference, covering all the world's species, with 272 pages, distribution maps and 32 superb colour plates. Helm series. Hardback £35.00.
Raptors of the World by James Ferguson-Lees & David Christie. 2001. Illustrated by Kim Franklin, David Mead and Philip Burton. The very long awaited Helm series identification guide to all the World's 313 species, with 992 pages, over 300 maps and 112 colour plates with over 2,000 illustrations of perched and flying birds. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 42. Hardback £49.00.
Raptors of the World: a field guide by James Ferguson-Lees & David Christie.
2005. A field guide version of the authors’ seminal, almost 1,000-page 'Raptors of the
World' (2001), with 320 pages and 118 colour plates (some of which have been
revised). Softback £19.99.
The Grebes by Jon Fjeldsa. 2005. A fine volume in the Bird Families of the World series from OUP. A detailed monograph, with 320 pages, 16 colour plates, numerous black-and-white illustrations and 31 maps. Hardback £95.00.
Parrots of the World: an identification guide by Joseph Forshaw.
2006. A
completely new book concentrating on the identification of all 350 species of
parrot, with 400 pages and 121 superb colour plates by Frank Knight. Hardback
£41.95.
The Raptors of Europe and the Middle East: A Handbook of Field Identification by Dick Forsman. 1999. The essential standard reference. A major handbook by the foremost authority on Western Palearctic raptors, with hundreds of colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 12: 380-381. Hardback £35.00.
Birds of Paradise by Clifford Frith & Bruce Beehler. 1998. A fine volume in the Bird Families of the World series from OUP, with 688 pages, 12 colour plates and numerous colour and black-and-white photographs. Hardback £65.00.
Bowerbirds by Clifford Frith & Dawn Frith. 2004. A fine volume in the Bird Families of the World series from OUP. A detailed monograph, with 508 pages, 8 colour plates, numerous black-and-white illustrations and maps. Hardback £85.00.
Kingfishers, Bee-eaters and Rollers by Hilary Fry, Kathie Fry & Alan Harris. 1992. The standard reference, covering all the world's species, with 344 pages and 40 stunning colour plates. Reviewed in Birding World 5: 321. Helm series. Softback £19.99.
Seabirds: a natural history by Tony Gaston. 2004. An in-depth look at the lives of the world's seabirds, with 276 pages and colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 351. Hardback £35.00.
Pigeons and Doves by David Gibbs, Eustace Barnes & John Cox. 2001. The new standard reference, covering all the world's species, with 560 pages, 76 superb colour plates and distribution maps. Christopher Helm series. Reviewed in Birding World 14: 130. Hardback £40.00.
Hybrid Ducks: a contribution towards an inventory by Eric and Barry Gillham. 1996. A detailed inventory and collection of 51 colour photographs of different hybrid ducks, with 104 pages. Softback £20.00.
Hybrid Ducks: the 5th contribution towards an inventory by Eric and Barry Gillham. 2002. A detailed inventory and collection of 93 colour photographs of different hybrid ducks in captivity, with 76 pages. Softback £24.50.
Woodpeckers of Europe by Gerard Gorman. 2004. An up-to-date monograph on Europe's woodpeckers, with 176 pages, 10 colour plates by Szabolcs Kokay, line drawings and colour species distribution maps. Hardback £35.00.
Herons and Egrets of the World: a photographic journey by James Hancock. 1999. Not an in-depth identification guide but a beautiful collection of photographs, covering all the world's species, with 250 pages and about 200 colour photographs of all species. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 128. Softback £18.95.
Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World by James Hancock et al. 1992. The standard reference, covering all the world's species, with 385 pages, and all species illustrated with superb, large-format plates by Alan Harris and David Quinn. Reviewed in Birding World 5: 487. Hardback £80.00.
Tits, Nuthatches and Treecreepers by Simon Harrap & David Quinn. 1996. The standard reference, covering all 110 of the world's species, with 464 pages and 36 colour plates. Helm series. Reviewed in Birding World 8: 480. Hardback £35.00.
Shrikes and Bush-shrikes by Tony Harris & Kim Franklin. 2000. The new standard reference, covering all the world's species and including wood-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, shrike flycatchers, philentoemas, batises and wattle-eyes, with 392 pages and 41 colour plates. Helm series. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 425. Hardback £40.00.
Seabirds by Peter Harrison. 1985. Second edition, and a vital reference, covering all the world's species, with 448 pages and 88 colour plates. Helm series. Hardback £35.00.
Seabirds of the World: a photographic guide by Peter Harrison. 1996. The comprehensive photographic companion to Seabirds, with 320 pages and 740 colour photographs. Softback £16.99.
Nightjars and their allies by David Holyoak. 2001. A fine OUP Bird Families of the World monograph covering all 118 species in this group, with 352 pages and 23 colour plates by Martin Woodcock. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 42. Hardback £51.50.
Hummingbirds of North America: the photographic guide by Steve Howell. 2002. An excellent photographic guide, covering the trickier plumages of the 24 species in particular detail, with 219 pages, numerous colour photographs, line drawings and maps. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 131. Softback £19.95.
New World Blackbirds: the Icterids by Alvaro Jaramillo & Peter Burke. 1999. The standard reference, covering all the world's species, with 512 pages and 39 colour plates. Helm series. Hardback £40.00.
Parrots by Tony Juniper & Mike Parr. 1998. A superb guide, with 584 pages and 88 colour plates illustrating all species. Christopher Helm series. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 156. Hardback £40.00.
Ducks, Geese and Swans by the late Janet Kear.
2005. An
authoritative, up-to-date monograph in the OUP Bird Families of the World
series, with 832 pages, 32 colour plates and 200 maps. Reviewed in Birding
World 18: 305-306. Two Volume Hardback £150.00.
Grebes of our World by Andre Konter. 2002. A Lynx Edicions monograph, with 187 pages and 85 colour photographs of 19 of the 22 species. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 304. Hardback £19.00.
The Herons
by James Kushlan and James Hancock. 2005. A detailed monograph in the popular OUP
'Bird Families of the World' series, with 433 pages, 65 maps, 12 colour plates,
21 colour photographs
and numerous black-and-white illustrations. Hardback £95.00.
Pittas, Broadbills and Asities by Frank Lambert. 1996. The standard reference, covering all the world's species, with 224 pages and 24 stunning colour plates by Martin Woodcock. Christopher Helm series. Reviewed in Birding World 9: 284. Hardback £29.99.
Crows and Jays by Steve Madge & Hilary Burn. 1994. The standard Helm reference, covering all the world's species, with 216 pages and 30 colour plates. Reviewed in Birding World 7: 125. Helm series. Softback £19.99.
Pheasants, Partridges and Grouse by Steve Madge and Phil McGowan. 2002. A fine Helm monograph, with 512 pages, 257 maps and 72 stunning colour plates of all 260 species by Norman Arlott, Robin Budden, Dan Cole, John Cox, Carl D'Silva, Kim Franklin and David Mead. With 516 pages, 257 maps and 72 colour plates. Hardback £45.00.
The Nuthatches by Eric Matthysen. 1998. A detailed monograph in the T. & A.D. Poyser series, concentrating on the European Nuthatch but including all other world nuthatches, with 315 pages, numerous line drawings and one colour plate by David Quinn. Hardback £25.95.
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The Goshawk by Robert Kenward. A new classic monograph in the Poyser series,
with 320 pages and eight pages of colour photographs. Hardback £35.00.
Grebes of the World by Malcolm Ogilvie. 2002. A detailed, large format (330mm x 250mm) monograph, with 112 pages, 24 superb, full-page colour plates of all species by Chris Rose and 22 maps. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 43. Hardback £49.95.
Gulls of Europe, Asia & North America by Klaus Malling Olsen & Hans Larsson. 2004. A much needed up-to-date guide to gull identification: superbly comprehensive, with 608 pages, 83 colour plates, 823 colour photographs and 43 colour maps. Hardback £45.00. REVISED AND CORRECTED EDITION NOW IN STOCK.
Terns: an identification guide by Klaus Malling Olsen & Hans Larsson. 1995. Covers all Western Palearctic species, with 224 pages, 44 colour plates and 200 colour photographs. Hardback £29.99.
Skuas and Jaegers by Klaus Malling Olsen & Hans Larsson. 1997. The standard reference, covering all the world's species, with 190 pages and 12 colour plates and 156 photographs (21 in colour). Christopher Helm series. Reviewed in Birding World 10: 278. Hardback £29.99.
Waders of Europe, Asia and North America by Stephen Message and Don Taylor.
2005. A comprehensive and well-illustrated identification guide to all the Holarctic
waders, with 240 pages and 80 colour plates. Softback £24.99.
Pelicans, Cormorants and their Allies by J. Bryan Nelson.
2005. An authoritative monograph, in the popular OUP
'Bird Families of the World' series, includes Frigatebirds etc, with 528 pages,
62 maps, 12 colour plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations. Hardback £95.00.
Shorebirds of the Pacific Northwest by Dennis Paulson. 1998. Softback edition. A detailed identification and ageing reference to North American waders, with 406 pages and numerous superb colour photographs. Softback £22.50.
The Cuckoos by Robert B. Payne. 2005. An authoritative monograph, in the popular OUP 'Bird Families of the World' series, with 618 pages, distribution maps, 20 colour plates by Karen Klitz and numerous black-and-white illustrations. Hardback £95.00.
The Gyrfalcon by Eugene Potapov and Richard Sale.
2005. An entrallingly
readable yet detailed T. & A.D. Poyser monograph on one of the world’s most
spectacular birds, with 288 pages, line drawings and 16 pages of colour photographs
and colour maps.
Hardback £35.00.
The Hawaiian Honeycreepers by H. Douglas Pratt. 2005. A fine volume in the Bird Families of the World series from OUP. A detailed monograph, with 336 pages, nine colour plates, numerous black-and-white illustrations and 18 maps. Hardback £95.00.
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Bewick’s Swan by Eileen Rees. A detailed and authoritative monograph of
this popular winter visitor, with 320 pages, and 16 pages of colour. Hardback
£40.00.
Sea Mammals of the World by Randall Reeves, Brent Stewart, Philip Clapham and James Powell. 2002. A comprehensive guide covering whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions and sea cows, with 528 pages, 320 colour illustrations, 418 colour photographs and 123 distribution maps. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 395. Softback £24.99.
Munias and Mannikins by Robin Restall. 1996. The standard reference, covering all the world's species, with 264 pages and 80 colour plates. Christopher Helm series. Reviewed in Birding World 10: 40. Hardback £29.99.
A Guide to the Sparrows of the United States and Canada by James Rising, illustrated by David Beadle. 1996. Covering all 62 North American sparrows & buntings, with 296 pages and 27 colour plates. Reviewed in Birding World 10: 78. (Hardback £30.00) Softback £15.95.
Fairy-wrens and Grasswrens by Ian Rowley, Eleanor Russell and Peter Marsack. 1997. OUP Bird Families of the World. The standard reference, covering all the world's species, with 320 pages and eight colour plates of these attractive birds. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 118. Hardback £68.00.
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Field Guide to Albatrosses, Petrels and Shearwaters by Paul Schofield and Derek
Onley. An up-to-date and authoritative Helm field guide, with 224 pages and 46 colour
plates. Hardback £19.99.
Sylvia Warblers: identification, taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Sylvia by Hadoram Shirihai, Gabriel Gargallo, Andreas Helbig, Alan Harris and David Cottridge. 2001. The most detailed monograph yet in the fine Helm series, with 576 pages, 26 maps, 20 colour plates and 540 colour photographs. Hardback £60.00.
Toucans, Barbets and Honeyguides by Lester Short and Jennifer Home. 2001. A fine volume in the OUP Bird Families of the World series, with 500 pages, maps and 36 colour plates by Albert Earl Gilbert illustrating every species and major subspecies. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 41. Hardback £95.00.
Harriers of the World by Robert E. Simmons. 2000. A fine volume in the Oxford Ornithology series, concentrating on ecology and behaviour, and including a new DNA-based phylogeny, with 350 pages and numerous line-drawings. Hardback £17.50.
Rails by Barry Taylor. 1998. A standard reference, covering all the world's species, with 300 pages and 40 colour plates. Christopher Helm series. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 442. Hardback £40.00.
Albatrosses by Lance Tickell. 2000. A comprehensive, up-to-date Christopher Helm monograph, with 400 pages and numerous photographs and maps. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 469. Hardback £40.00.
(**June) The Barn Swallow by Angela Turner. A detailed and authoritative monograph
of this most popular summer visitor, with 304 pages, and 16 pages of colour.
Hardback £35.00.
Swallows and Martins by Angela Turner & Chris Rose. 1989. The standard reference to all the world's species, with 272 pages and 24 colour plates. Reviewed in Birding World 2: 336. Helm series. Hardback £29.99.
Stonechats: a guide to the genus Saxicola by Ewan Urquhart and Adam Bowley. 2002. A detailed monograph on this popular family, including in-depth identification of all the species and their forms, with 224 pages, colour plates, colour photographs and distribution maps. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 42. Hardback £40.00.
The Stone Curlew by Richard Vaughan and Nancy Vaughan Jennings. 2005. The first detailed monograph to be published on this fascinating bird, with 360 pages and 19 colour photographs. Hardback £35.00.
A Photographic Guide
to North American Raptors by Brian Wheeler & William Clark. 1995. Covers all 43
species, with 198 pages and 377 colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 8:
397. Hardback £26.00.
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World Butterflies
by Bernard d’Abrera. 2005 An identification guide, at least to genus level, of
all species, based on the author’s The Concise Atlas of the Butterflies of
the World (2001), with 272 pages and 150 colour plates of 6,400 butterflies.
Softback £18.50.
The Millennium Atlas of Butterflies in Britain & Ireland by Jim Asher et al. 2001. This stunning atlas provides the results of the most comprehensive survey of butterflies ever undertaken in Britain & Ireland. With 434 pages, detailed, colour 10km-square species-maps, and numerous colour photographs. Hardback £30.00.
The Life of Birds by David Attenborough. 1998. The lavish companion book to the superb BBC Television series, with 318 pages and full colour throughout. See also Videos below. Hardback £18.99.
A Bad Birdwatcher’s Companion by Simon Barnes. 2005. A follow-up to the award-winning author’s best-selling How to be a Bad Birdwatcher, with 288 pages. Hardback £9.99.
How to be a Bad Birdwatcher by Simon Barnes. 2004. Serialised on Radio 4. The virtues of birdwatching: you do not have to be a twitcher with top-of-the-range binoculars to enjoy birds. Hardback £9.99.
Whose Bird? by Bo Beolens and Michael Watkins. 2003. The stories behind the names commemortated in the common names of birds, with 400 pages and 150 black-and-white photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 131. Softback, £17.99.
Bird Migration by Peter Berthold. 2001. Second edition. An updated second edition of the highly praised standard work on bird migration, with 266 pages. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 131. Softback £32.00.
Wild Flowers by Colour by Marjorie Blamey. 2005. Second edition. An easy-to-use guide covering Britain and northwest Europe, with 208 pages and over 2,000 colour paintings. Softback £9.99.
The Wild Flowers of Britain & Ireland by Marjorie Blamey, Richard Fitter and Alastair Fitter. 2003. The first-ever fully illustrated, fully-mapped guide, with 512 pages, over 2,000 colour paintings and over 800 maps. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 395. Softback £16.99.
Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean by Marjorie Blamey and Christopher Grey-Wilson. 2004. A beautiful flower guide to both sides of the Mediterranean, and its islands, with 560 pages and 191 colour plates. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 263. Softback £16.99.
Around the World with 1000 Birds by Russell Boyman. 2002. The highly readable story of the author's six-month-long birding trip around the world, with 262 pages. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 483. Softback £9.99.
The Migration Atlas produced by the British Trust for Ornithology. 2002. An amazing landmark volume summarising decades of ringing and recovery details, with highly accessible maps and accompanying texts for 195 species, with 884 pages. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 347-348. Hardback £65.00.
Dragonflies & Damselflies of Great Britain & Ireland by Steve Brooks. 1999. Revised edition. The best field guide, with 220 superb colour plates by Richard Lewington. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 119. Softback £18.95.
Tracks and Signs of the Birds of Britain & Europe by Roy Brown, John Ferguson, Michael Lawrence and David Lees. 2003. A fully revised new edition of the classic work, with 328 pages, 66 colour plates and many line drawings and diagrams. Softback £24.99.
Attracting Wildlife to your Garden by John Burton and David Tipling. 2004. A beautiful book packed with advice, with 160 pages and colour photographs throughout. Hardback £16.99.
Drawing Birds by John Busby. 2004. Second edition. Helpful advice from the master of charismatic drawings, with 144 pages and 80 colour and 50 black-and-white illustrations by the author and many other talented bird artists. Softback £19.99.
Mark Carwardine's Guide to Whalewatching: Britain and Europe by Mark Carwardine. 2003. Where to go and what to see, with 192 pages, numerous colour photographs and species colour illustrations and 40 maps. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 351. Hardback £14.99.
Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises by Mark Carwardine. 1995. The best field guide to these popular animals, covering all the world's species, with 256 pages and excellent plates of all species by Martin Camm. Softback £12.99.
Birders: Tales of a Tribe by Mark Cocker. 2001. A highly readable account of what the obsession of birding is all about, with 230 pages. Reviewed in Birding World 14: 307. Hardback £15.99; softback £7.99.
The Secret Lives of Garden Birds by Dominic Couzens. 2004. A fascinating, readable, month-by-month description of the behaviour of familiar garden birds, with 160 pages and numerous colour illustrations and photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 262. Softback £14.99.
Whales and Dolphins of the European Atlantic, the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel by Graeme Cresswell and Dylan Walker. 2001. This inexpensive field guide to all 27 species is a 'must' for cetacean enthusiasts, with 56 pages, and featuring artwork and superb, digitally-placed colour photographs. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 43. Softback £8.00.
The Birdwatcher’s Yearbook and Diary 2006 edited by David Cromack. 2005. The 26th edition of the standard reference, packed with useful information. No birder should be without this book! (2003 edition reviewed in Birding World 16: 43) Softback £14.50.
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The Big Twitch by Sean Dooley. The entertaining story of an attempt on the
Australian year-list record, with 322 pages. Softback £15.99.
Golden Wings – and other stories about birders and birding by Pete Dunne. 2003. Highly readable insight and wit from 'the master storyteller of the birding world', with 122 pages. Softback £12.50.
Weather and bird behaviour by Norman Elkins. 2004. Third edition. A detailed Poyser discussion on the many ways that weather affects bird behaviour, with 276 pages and 16 pages of colour photographs. Hardback £35.00.
Field Guide to the Bumblebees of Great Britain & Ireland by Mike Edwards and Martin Jenner. 2005. A beautifully produced and authoritative, yet easy-to-use guide, with 108 pages and colour photographs and keys throughout, and species distribution maps. Softback £9.99.
One Man’s Birds by Eric Ennion, edited by Bob Walthew. 2004. A beautiful art book, with 144 pages and 400 individual paintings by Eric Ennion. Hardback £35.00.
Time to Fly: Exploring Bird Migration by Jim Flegg. 2004. A detailed look at bird migration in Britain, with 184 pages and colour ringing recovery maps and colour photographs throughout. Softback £12.50.
Exposing Nature: The Natural History Museum Photography Guide by Frank
Greenaway. 2006. A guide packed with expert advice on all types of nature photography,
with 160 pages and colour photographs throughout. Softback £16.99.
Dodo: the bird
behind the legend by Alan Grihault. 2006. The fascinating story of the
iconic Dodo, beautifully presented, with 172 pages and colour photographs and
illustrations throughout. Softback
£16.99.
Orchids of Britain and Ireland: a field and site guide by Anne and Simon Harrap. 2005. A comprehensive and extremely well-illustrated guide covering both identification and over 300 sites, with 480 pages, over 370 colour photographs, and 49 colour distribution maps. Softback £29.99.
Life with Birds by Rob Hume. 2005. The story of a life with birds, by the best-selling author and RSPB Birds editor, with 256 pages and 40 black-and-white illustrations. Hardback £14.99.
W.D. Campbell: naturalist and teacher by Mary and Ken Jackson. 2003. A biography of the famous British naturalist, Bill Campbell 1905-1994, with 166 pages and several black-and-white photographs. Softback £12.00.
David Koster: Artist, Printmaker & Naturalist edited by Christine Johnson. 2005. A collections of charismatic paintings and sketches by wildlife artist David Koster, with 116 pages. Hardback £35.00.
Collins Tree Guide by Owen Johnson and David More. 2004. Matching Collins Bird Guide (Svensson & Grant 1999), this is the new standard field guide to the trees of Britain & Europe, with 464 pages, superb colour plates and facing-page texts throughout. Reviewed in Birding World 18: 87. (Large, A4 format hardback £40.00) Hardback £25.00.
Birds and light: the art of Lars Jonsson by Lars Jonsson. 2002. The life and work of one of the world's finest bird artists, in large format (300mm x 280mm), with colour artwork throughout 224 pages. Hardback £35.00.
Photographic Guide to the Marine Mammals of the North Atlantic by Carl Christian Kinze. 2002. This beautifully designed guide contains, as well as superb colour photographs, excellent colour paintings of all species, with 192 pages and species distribution maps. Hardback £15.99.
To See Every Bird on Earth by Dan Koeppel. 2005. Richard Koeppel has seen over 7,000 species and his son tells how their relationship fared because of it. Hardback £14.99.
Britain's Orchids by David Lang. 2004. A comprehensive photographic guide in the attractive Wildguides series, with superb digital photo montage colour plates, covering all Britain's species and forms, with 192 pages and colour throughout. Reviewed in Birding World 18: 87. Hardback £15.00.
Pocket Guide to the Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland by Richard Lewington. 2003. All the resident and migrant butterflies fully described and illustrated, with 144 pages and superb colour artworks of all life cycle stages. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 394. Softback £9.95.
Britain’s Rare Flowers by Peter Marren. 1999. The authoritative story of Britain’s rare wild flowers, with 338 pages and numerous colour photographs, although not a detailed site-guide. Softback £16.99
Twitching through the Swamp by Peter Marren and David Carstairs. 2004. An alternative and satirical perspective of British wildlife, accompanied by cartoon drawings, as originally published in British Wildlife magazine. Reviewed in Birding World 18: 175. Softback £12.50.
The Atlas of European Mammals by A.J. Mitchell-Jones et al. 1999. A fine T. & A.D. Poyser Companion to the EBCC Atlas of European Birds, with detailed maps and texts covering habitat, population and conservation for 194 species. Hardback £45.00.
North Norfolk Summer Sketchbook by James McCallum. 2004. A beautiful book, full of the author’s charismatic artwork. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 87. Hardback £25.00.
Wild Goose Winter: Observations of geese in north Norfolk by James McCallum. 2002. A beautifully produced collection of the author's charismatic paintings and observations, with 114 pages. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 87. Hardback £25.00.
North Norfolk Wildlife through the Seasons by James McCallum. 2002. Softback edition. A monthly account of the North Norfolk wildlife year in paintings, sketches and text. Softback £10.95.
A Birder's Guide to the Behaviour of European and North American Birds by Gabor Michl. 2003. A look at bird behaviour in general, particularly sexual selection, and concentrating on non-passerines, with 291 pages and 41 illustrations. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 87. Hardback £32.99.
Everything you always wanted to know about birds ... but were afraid to ask! by Stephen Moss. 2005. Hundreds of questions (such as ‘How do ducks keep their feet from freezing in winter?’ and ‘Are birds really dinosaus?’) and their answers, with 192 pages. Softback £9.99.
Great British Marine Animals by Paul Naylor. 2003. This very well priced new guide provides a fascinating, easy-to-read introduction to Britain's undersea life and is packed with colour photographs throughout its 236 pages. Softback £14.00.
The Speciation and Biogeography of Birds by Ian Newton. 2003. A readable yet authoritative up-to-date overview of a full range of topics under this heading, including a fascinating review of the pros and cons of DNA work, with 668 pages and numerous maps, tables and diagrams. Hardback £49.95.
The Big Year by Mark Obmascik. 2004. The highly readable ‘extraordinary story of the greatest bird-watching competition of all time’ – the North American year-list. Softback £6.99.
Bill Oddie's Gripping Yarns: tales of birds and birding by Bill Oddie. 2000. Hilarious short tales varying from bird racing in Hong Kong to a birder's dietry requirements, originally published in Birdwatch (many of them here in a rather longer, uncut form). Softback £7.99.
A Guide to the Dragonflies of Great Britain by Dan Powell. 1999. With 128 pages and colour plates throughout. Softback £15.95.
New Atlas of the British and Irish Flora edited by C.D. Preston, D.A. Pearman and T.D. Dines. 2002. The definitive, beautifully produced new colour atlas summarising over 9 million records since 1987 produced by 1,600 volunteers. Hardback £89.95.
Red Kite Country by Mike Read and Colin Woolf. 2004. A sumptuous, large-format celebration of the birds and landscapes of mid Wales, with 130 pages and beautiful colour photographs and colour paintings throughout. Hardback £25.00.
Arrivals and Rivals: a birding oddity: a year of competitive twitching by Adrian Riley. 2005. The well-written and highly readable story of the author’s record-breaking British & Irish year-list campaign, with 166 pages and eight pages of colour photographs. Softback £7.99.
In a Natural Light:
the Wildlife Art of Chris Rose
by Chris Rose. 2005. A large-format collection of beautiful artwork, with 143
pages, 70 colour paintings and numerous pencil sketches. Hardback £35.00.
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Whales, Dolphins and Seals: a field guide to the marine mammals of the world by Hadoram Shirihai. A Complete guide, illustrated by Brett Jarrett. With 320 pages, 75 colour paitings, 400 colour
photographs and 110 maps. Softback £12.99.
National Geographic
Photographing Birds by Rulon Simmons. 2006. Aimed mainly at beginner bird
photographers, this is an updated version of the 2002 NG Photography Field Guide
- Birds, with 176 pages and colour photos throughout. Softback £12.99.
Britain's Dragonflies by Dave Smallshire and Andy Swash. 2004. A comprehensive photographic guide in the attractive Wildguides series, with superb digital photo montage colour plates, covering all Britain's species, including vagrants and potential vagrants, with 168 pages. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 263. Hardback £15.00.
Birding on Borrowed Time by Phoebe Snetsinger. 2003. The autobiography of the late Phoebe Snetsinger, the world's top-listing birder. With 307 pages and 16 colour plates. Softback £17.50.
Bird Photography by David Tipling. 2005. Detailed practical advice on taking great bird photographs, plus the best bird photography destinations worldwide, with 192 pages and colour photographs throughout. Reviewed in Birding World 18: 351. Hardback £22.95.
(**August)
RSPB Guide to Digital Wildlife Photography by David Tipling . Helpful and
practical advice to all aspects of digital wildlife photography, with 160 pages
and over 200 colour photographs. Softback £19.99.
Collins Field Guide to Butterflies of Britain and Europe by Tom Tolman. Reprinted 2004. The standard guide, with 320 pages and 104 superb colour plates by Richard Lewington. Hardback £25.00.
Photographic Guide to Butterflies of Britain and Europe by Tom Tolman. 2002. The first comprehensive photographic guide (including the Canaries, Madeira and the Azores), with distribution maps and identification texts facing over 500 colour photographs. Softback £16.50.
Britain's Butterflies by David Tomlinson and Rob Still. 2002. A comprehensive photographic guide in the attractive Wildguides series, with 82 digital montage colour plates, covering all 60 regular species, including eggs, caterpillars and chrysalises, with 192 pages and species distribution maps. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 351. Softback £14.95.
Guide to the Offshore Wildlife of the North Atlantic by Michael Tove. 2001. A complete guide for pelagic trips in the entire North Atlantic area - birds, cetaceans, seals and turtles, with 262 pages, 39 colour plates and 18 regional occurrence charts. Reviewed in Birding World 14: 523. Softback £17.95.
Devon Wildlife through the Seasons by John Walters. 2000. An artist's sketch book, filled with charismatic colour paintings, with 132 pages. Hardback £15.00.
A Concise History of Ornithology by Michael Walters. 2003. A history of ornithology, with 256 pages and numerous black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 350-351. Hardback £30.00.
A Birdwatcher’s Guide: Bird Identification and Fieldcraft by Mark Ward. 2005. A book aiming to improve the skills of birders of all levels, with tips gleaned from years of experience, with 128 pages, 140 colour illustrations and 50 colour photographs. Hardback £12.99.
Michael Warren's Langford Lowfields 1989-1999 by Michael Warren. 1999. A limited edition large (297mm x 210mm) format book containing 120 colour paintings of gravel workings site portraits featuring 113 species of birds. Hardback £25.00.
Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland by Paul Waring and Martin Townsend. 2003. All the resident and migrant larger moths fully described and illustrated with 400 pages and over 1,600 superb colour artworks by Richard Lewington. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 394-395. Softback £29.95.
Treasures of the Forgotten Forest by Robert Williams. 2004. Artists For Nature in the Tumbesian Region of Peru and Ecuador, with 168 pages and numerous colour illustrations, photographs and maps. Hardback £30.00.
Horace Alexander 1889 to 1989 Birds and Binoculars by J. Duncan Wood. 2003. A very readable biography of one of the great pioneers of British ornithology, with 200 pages and several drawings. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 351. Softback £12.00.
A Field Guide to the
Insects of Australia edited by Paul Zborowski and Ross Storey. 1995. An
introduction and practical field guide to the insects of Australia, with 206
pages and over 240 colour photographs. Softback £14.99.
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COMPACT DISCS, CD-ROMS, DVDS & VIDEOS
The Life of Birds by David Attenborough. 1998. The superb BBC Television series. Almost 9 hours, newly available in DVD. Includes an extra 40 minutes of previously unseen footage and a graphic menu for digital scene selection. A three-disc DVD set £34.99 or three VHS video set in a slipcase £29.99.
The CD-ROM Guide to Rarer British Birds produced by Birdguides. 2001. An essential CD-ROM for computerised birders: a database of British rarity records and an index to Birding World and British Birds, with almost 400 rarity video clips. CD-ROM £29.95.
Birds of Venezuela CD-ROM by Peter Boesman. 1999. With 700 colour photographs, over 1,200 sound recordings and 878 distribution maps of Venezuelan birds. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 89. CD-ROM £49.95.
Birds of the Macaronesian Islands: Part 1: The Canary Islands and Madeira by Leo Boon. 2002. An excellent quality birding video to these popular islands. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 306. VHS video £23.95.
Birds of the Macaronesian Islands: Part 2: The Cape Verde Islands and the Azores by Leo Boon. 2003. An excellent quality birding video to these rare islands. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 130. VHS video £23.95.
Birder's Diary World Edition 3.0 by Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Thayer Birding Software's Version 3.0, amazingly powerful but quite easy to use listing software. Prints lists and reports and includes voice entry option. CD-ROM for Windows £99.00.
Waders by Bird Images. 2005. A heavily updated DVD version of the 2000 video guide featuring the key wader species of Europe, Asia and North America, with 104 species (including all the stints, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Slender-billed Curlew etc) in nearly five hours. Two DVD set £19.95.
The Birds of Britain & Europe by Bird Images. 2004. The ultimate DVD reference to 650 species, with a total running time of 13 hours 5 minutes. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 350. A 6 DVD set at a bargain price £39.95.
Also 1999. Second edition. By far the best and most complete video set available. First edition reviewed in Birding World 7: 374 & 9: 410, now considerably revised and improved. The set now complete in four volumes (not seven as previously) but now covers over 550 species in longer running time: now almost 12 hours. VHS videos Volumes 1-4 (each £17.95) £69.95.
DVD Guide to British Birds by Bird Images. 2004. A superb DVD set featuring 280 species at a real bargain price, with a total running time of 6 hours 30 minutes. A 3 DVD set £19.95.
Bill Oddie's Video Guide to British Birds by Bird Images. 1999. Covers over 280 species in almost three hours. VHS video £17.95.
The Raptors of Britain & Europe by Bird Images. 1995. Covers all 38 European species in 86 minutes. VHS video £17.95.
The Waders of Britain by Bird Images. 1995. Covers 38 species in 62 minutes. VHS video £17.95.
Gulls: The Gulls of Europe, Asia & North America by Bird Images. 2001. An incredibly comprehensive video, running to five hours. Reviewed in Birding World 14: 522. Double VHS video £27.95.
The Gulls of Britain by Bird Images. 1995. Covers 17 species in 57 minutes. VHS video £17.95.
Shorebirds Volume 1 by Bird Images. 1995. Covers North American and western Palearctic waders, this first volume (the only one so far) covering oystercatchers, stilts, avocets, Stone Curlew, Cream-coloured Courser, pratincoles and plovers. 32 species in 80 minutes. VHS video £17.95.
Waders by Bird Images. 2000. A video guide to the key wader species of Europe, Asia and North America, with over 100 species (including all the stints, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Slender-billed Curlew etc) in almost four hours. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 381. Two VHS video set £24.95.
The Warblers of Britain & Europe by Bird Images. 1998. Covers 60 species in excellent detail in 2 hours 28 minutes. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 442. £17.95.
Birdwatching in Alaska by Bird Images. 2002. Narrated by Bill Oddie. An ideal introduction to Alaskan birding, with over 100 species (including Snowy Owls, Bristle-thighed Curlews and Spectacled Eiders) in about one hour 30 minutes. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 305. VHS video £17.95.
Birdwatching in Mallorca by Bird Images. 2002. Narrated by Bill Oddie. An ideal introduction to Mallorcan birding, with over 80 species (including Eleonora's Falcon, Balearic Marmora's Warbler, Black Vulture and Audouin's Gull) in just over one hour. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 305. VHS video £17.95.
Birdwatching in Goa by Bird Images. 2000. Narrated by Bill Oddie. An ideal introduction to Indian birding, with over 140 species in two hours 23 minutes. VHS video £17.95.
Birds of North America by Bird Images. 2000. An ideal introduction to North American birding, with over 350 species, including specialities like California Condor and Snail Kite, in a two video set with a running time of almost four hours. Two VHS video set £25.00.
Eastern Rarities - Birds of Beidaihe by Bird Images. 1998. Covers 138 species in excellent detail in 2 hours 13 minutes. Reviewed in Birding World 12: 85. VHS video £17.95.
Birds of Mexico MP3
Sound Collection by Peter Boesman. 2005. 725 recordings of over 650 Mexican
bird species (totalling about 6 hours) in MP3 format, playable direct on PC or
compatible CD player, or copied to MP3 player. CD £42.95.
Birds of Venezuela
MP3 Sound Collection by Peter Boesman. 2005. 1,050 recordings of over 950
Venezuelan bird species (totalling about 8 hours) in MP3 format, playable direct
on PC or compatible CD player, or copied to MP3 player.CD £42.95.
Birds of Brazil MP3
Sound Collection by Peter Boesman. 2005. 1,050 recordings of over 1,000
Brazilian bird species (totalling about 10 hours) in MP3 format, playable direct
on PC or compatible CD player, or copied to MP3 player. CD £42.95.
The Small Gulls of North America by Jon L. Dunn. 1999. The Advanced Birding Video Series, Video No. 2. Essential for gull enthusiasts! Includes Ross's, Sabine's and Ivory Gulls. 2 hours 15 minutes. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 296. VHS video £17.95.
The Large Gulls of North America by Jon L. Dunn. 1998. The Advanced Birding Video Series, Video1. Essential for large gull enthusiasts! 2 hours. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 484. VHS video £17.95.
A Passion for Raptors – a video biography of Dick Forsman. 2003. VHS video £22.00.
Birds of Southern Africa by Guy Gibbon. Close-up video and sound of 550 species. VHS videos. Vol 1 (commoner birds, 105 minutes) £21.99; Vols. 2 & 3 (less common and rarer birds, 60 minutes each) each £19.99.
Birds of the Kruger National Park by Guy Gibbon. A 90 minute video guide to 250 species, with an introduction to the park and its habitats. VHS video £21.99.
The DVD Guide to British Birds by David Gosney. 1999. Version 5. Instant access to video clips and sounds of British birds. Single DVD disc £49.95.
The DVD Guide to All the Birds of Europe by David Gosney. 1999. Version 5. Instant access to video clips and sounds of virtually all European birds. Single DVD disc £119.95.
Gosney in .... Videos by David Gosney. Great birding 'introductions to' and 'souvenirs of' videos: Alaska, 2003, 53 minutes (Reviewed in Birding World 16: 483); Arctic Lapland, 1994, 40 minutes; Britain, 1997, 72 minutes; Canada, 2000, 70 minutes; China, 1999, 61 minutes; Eastern Europe, 1995, 44 minutes; Florida, 1998, 72 minutes; Israel, 1995, 48 minutes; Mallorca, 1990, 31 minutes; Morocco, 1996, 55 minutes; Spain, 1996, 63 minutes; Texas, 1997, 98 minutes; Turkey, 1996, 63 minutes. VHS Videos each £19.95. (Spain, Morocco and Texas also available in DVD £12.95 each.)
Calls of Eastern Vagrants by Hannu Jännes. 2003. An essential CD for rarity enthusiasts: the calls of 68 mouth-watering eastern species, such as Pintail Snipe, Blyth's and Pechora Pipits, Sykes's Warbler and Taiga Flycatcher. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 349. CD £15.99.
Bird Sounds of Goa and South India by Hannu Jännes. 2002. A CD of bird sounds of almost 100 species. CD £15.99.
Attracting Swifts recorded by Erich Kaiser. 2003. This German produced CD (with written instructions in English) consists entirely of Common Swift response calls, near-vital for attracting Swifts to new nestboxes. CD £17.99.
Ten Days to Paint the Forest by Richard & Julia Kemp. 2004. A thoroughly entertaining film of top wildlife artists (including Lars Jonsson and Bruce Pearson) in the forests of Peru and Ecuador, 1 hour and 22 minutes. Reviewed in Birding World 18: 87. (DVD Version £17.95) VHS video £15.95.
Rare Birds in Finland in 2002 by Jari Kontiokorpi. 2003. An excellent compilation of the best 73 rarity videos from Finland in 2002, including Chestnut Bunting, Two-barred Greenish Warbler etc, with Finnish commentary and English subtitles. The previous (2001) video was reviewed in Birding World 15: 307. Approx. 90 minutes VHS video £10.00.
Birds of Ecuador DVD-ROM by Niels Krabbe and Jonas Nilsson. 2003. With over 6,015 sound recordings of 1,184 species (totalling 69 hours) and 830 colour photographs of 471 species. DVD-ROM £65.95.
Butterflies of Europe CD-ROM by Lepibase. 2000. All the butterflies of Europe, with over 2,000 colour photographs, distribution maps and many interactive features. CD-ROM £37.95.
Audubon Video Guide to 505 Birds of North America by Mastervision. 2005. The definitive North American video collection. Note the Region 1 NTSC DVD format should be playable on most newer European DVD players. Two DVD (NTSC format) set (Four VHS PAL tapes £65.95) £52.95.
Birds of Bolivia CD-ROM by Sjoerd Mayer. 2000. 2nd edition. With 1,390 colour photographs, 2,530 sound recordings. CD-ROM £49.95.
Birds of South Korea by Charlie Moores and Nial Moores. 2002. An excellent video introduction to this increasingly popular birding destination, featuring about 170 species in about 3 hours. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 306. VHS video £19.95.
The Gambia by Otus Digital Video. 1996. Birdwatching Guide Series. Videos Nos. 1 & 2. Video No. 1 is an excellent introduction to this popular birding destination. Video No. 2 is a compilation of some of the best bird video sequences taken by visitors to the country. Two VHS video set £19.95.
Dragonflies and Damselflies of Great Britain: a video guide by Alex Parker. 1999. A high quality comprehensive video guide, with plenty of useful background information as well as detailed close-ups of all species. 80 minutes. VHS video £16.99.
A Taste of the Birds of Cuba by Ian Phillips and James Dick. 2003. An introduction to (and souvenir of) birding this excellent birding Caribbean island. With no commentary, but captions. A good introduction to birding Cuba: numerous species featured, although often not in great close-up or quality. About 53 minutes. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 131. VHS video £15.00.
Birds Sounds of Europe & NW Africa 10-CD set by Jean Claude Roché and Jerome Chevereau. 2002. A comprehensive collection of European Bird Sounds, featuring over 481 species and subspecies. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 482-483. 10 CDs £49.95.
Bird Songs and Calls of Britain and Europe 4-CD set by Jean Claude Roché. Instant CD access to quality recordings of the songs and calls of 396 European species. Reviewed in Birding World 6: 417 (only the title has changed). 4 CDs £24.95.
RSPB Birds of Britain & Ireland Interactive PC and PDA edition. 2005. This electronic guide is for PC or PDA and features text, illustrations, photographs, maps and sounds, and includes a site-guide and listing and recording software. CD-ROM £39.95.
Birding Costa Rica
Parts 1 & 2 by Malcolm Rymer. 2005. A wonderful DVD/video introduction to one of the
best birding countries in the world, duration approximately 1 hour 45 minutes
each. Widescreen. Each part: DVD £19.00. VHS
Video £17.00.
Birding Extremadura by Malcolm Rymer. 2003. An introduction to (and souvenir of) birding this increasingly popular bird-rich area of central Spain.. 90 minutes. VHS video £17.00. (Also in DVD, £19.00.)
Northern Cyprus in Spring by Malcolm Rymer. 2003. An introduction to (and souvenir of) birding in northern Cyprus, with birds, wild flowers and landscapes. 80 minutes. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 350. VHS video £17.95. (Also in DVD, £19.00.)
Birding in Goa: Parts 1 & 2 by Malcolm Rymer. 2002. An introduction to (and souvenir of) Goa. Part 1: Birding around the main tourist area; 90 minutes. Part 2: Birding the wider areas of North and South Goa and the Western Ghats; 150 minutes. Two VHS videos each £17.95. (Also in DVD, £19.00 each.)
Birding in the Gambia: Parts 1-3 by Malcolm Rymer. 2001. A beautiful video introduction to (and souvenir of) the Gambia. About 90 minutes each. Part 1 Sorties around the smiling coast: Part 2 Forays further afield: Part 3: Upriver Odyssey. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 303. VHS videos Each £16.95. Set of three £42.00. (Also in DVD, £19.00 each.)
Birding in Israel: Parts 1 & 2 by Malcolm Rymer. 2000. A beautiful video introduction to (and souvenir of) southern Israel. About 73 minutes each. VHS video Each £16.95. (Also in DVD, £19.00 each.)
Lesbos Journal by Malcolm Rymer. 1999. Parts 1 & 2. This Lesbos video contains more detail on the flora and fauna than Malcolm Rymer's other videos on the island. 60 minutes each. Two VHS videos each £14.99.
Birding on Lesvos by Malcolm Rymer. 2001. A beautiful video introduction to (and souvenir of) Lesvos. About 90 minutes each. VHS video £16.99. (Also in DVD, £19.00.)
Birding in Sri Lanka: Barbets, Babblers & Bulbuls by Malcolm Rymer. 1999. An excellent bird video introduction to (and souvenir of) this popular birding destination. 60 minutes. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 89. VHS video £15.99.
Birding Trinidad by Malcolm Rymer. 2003. An introduction to (and souvenir of) birding this excellent birding Caribbean island. About 90 minutes. Reviewed in Birding World 17: 263. VHS video £17.00. (Also in DVD, £19.00.)
Birding Tobago by Malcolm Rymer. 2003. An introduction to (and souvenir of) birding this excellent birding Caribbean island. 90 minutes. VHS video £17.00. (Also in DVD, £19.00.)
Birding Ecuador by Malcolm Rymer. 2004. A two-hour introduction to and souvenir of birding in one of the richest bird-countries on Earth, featuring over 250 species. Reviewed in Birding World 18: 131. VHS video £19.00. (Also in DVD £21.00.)
Birds of Tropical Asia DVD-ROM by Jelle Scharringa. 2005. Version 3. With 700 colour photographs of 483 bird species and 2,090 sound recordings (which may be copied to other media) of 911 species from the southeast Asia area. Version 1 reviewed in Birding World 13: 89. DVD £49.95.
Birds Sounds of Europe North Africa and the Middle East 17-CD set by Andreas Schulze. 2003. A new, most comprehensive collection of Western Palearctic bird sounds, featuring 2,817 recordings of 819 species. Text in German (but available on-line in English at www.birdsongs.de/birdsongs.pdf), but fully indexed with scientific names. Full species list. Reviewed in Birding World 16: 393. 17 CDs £75.99.
Birds of Beidaihe by Alan Shaw. 1994. Covers 113 species in c.2 hours 30 minutes. VHS video £23.95.
Birds of Bharatpur by Alan Shaw. 1993. Covers 143 species in c.1 hour 45 minutes. VHS video £23.95.
Birds of Northern India by Alan Shaw. 1998. Covers 255 species in c.2 hours 20 minutes. VHS video £23.95.
Birds of Morocco by Alan Shaw. 1992. Covers 86 species in c.2 hours. VHS video £23.95.
Birds of Texas by Alan Shaw. 1997. Features 146 species in c.1 hour 45 minutes. VHS video £23.95.
Megas in Britain 1990-2000 by Alan Shaw. 2001. The rarest and most gripping TV-watching ever! Three hours of non-stop mega-rarities - all the highlights off 11 years of Alan Shaw videos at a bargain price. For a full species list, click on this: Alan Shaw's Megas. Reviewed in Birding World 15: 43. VHS video £17.95.
Birding in Britain 2004 by Alan Shaw. 2004. Not quite as many rarities as some of Alan’s previous videos, but including a selection of quality video from Jan–July 2004, including the American Robin (Lincs), Baltimore Oriole, Pine Bunting, Alpine Swift and Broad-billed & Spotted Sandpipers. etc. VHS Video £16.00.
Birding in Britain 2003 by Alan Shaw. 2004. Not quite as many rarities as some of Alan’s previous videos, but including Audouin’s Gull, Black Lark, Least Sandpiper, Cornwall American Robin and Baltimore Oriole etc. VHS Video £15.00.
Birding in Britain 2002 by Alan Shaw. 2002. The latest professional-quality rare bird video from the master. Includes Ivory Gull, Ross's Gull, Lesser Sand Plover, Lesse Kestrel, Bee-eaters etc. Covers only until early autumn bacause he is emigrating to New Zealand, so this is his last British rarity video. VHS video £17.95.
Birding in Britain 2001 by Alan Shaw. 2002. The professional-quality rare bird video from the master. Includes Little Swift, Isabelline Wheatear, Red-necked Stint, Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler, Green Heron, Snowy Egret etc. VHS video £23.95.
Rare Birds in Britain 2000 by Alan Shaw. 2001. Includes Sora, Booted Eagle, Gyr Falcon, Franklin's Gull, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Desert Warbler, Alpine Accentor, Blue Rock Thrush, Black-eared Wheatear, Roller, Solitary Sandpiper, Sociable Plover etc. VHS video £25.00.
Rare Birds in Britain 1999 by Alan Shaw. 2000. Includes the Black-winged Pratincole, Baillon's Crake, Greater Sand Plover, Short-billed Dowitcher, Laughing Gull, Slender-billed Gull, Elegant Tern, Gull-billed Tern, Whiskered Tern, Crag Martin etc. Reviewed in Birding World 13: 88. VHS video £25.00.
Rare Birds in Britain 1997 by Alan Shaw. 1998. Includes the Little Crake, Spectacled Warbler, Semipalmated and Lesser Sand Plovers, Western Sandpiper etc. c.1 hour 40 minutes. Reviewed in Birding World 11: 117. VHS video £25.00.
Rare Birds in Britain 1996 by Alan Shaw. 1997. Includes the Cedar Waxwing, Harlequin Ducks, Redhead, American Coot, Great Knot, Spanish Sparrow, Black-and-white Warbler etc. c.3 hours. Reviewed in Birding World 10: 78. VHS video £25.00.
Rare Birds in Britain 1995 by Alan Shaw. 1996. Includes the Teesside Ross's Gull, the Orkney Pallid Harrier, the Norfolk Rock Thrush etc. c.2 hours. Reviewed in Birding World 9: 37. VHS video £23.95.
Rare Birds in Britain 1994 by Alan Shaw. 1995. Includes the Red-throated Thrush, the Suffolk Blyth's Pipit, the Grey-tailed Tattler, the Norfolk Red-flanked Bluetail etc. c.1 hour 30 minutes. Reviewed in Birding World 8: 119. VHS video £23.95.
Collins Bird eGuide
by Lars Svensson and Peter Grant. Latest Edition. The revolutionary electronic
version of the best field guide, with all illustrations, maps & text, now
updated with 780 sounds of 437 species. Updates free. Requires Pocket PC. SD
Memory Card £89.95.
Birder’s Diary World Edition Version 3.0 by Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Thayer Birding Software. 2004. Amazingly powerful, but easy-to-use world listing software. Prints lists and reports, and includes voice entry option. CD-ROM for Windows £99.00.
British Butterflies -
an identification guide by Roger Wilmshurst. 2001. The first comprehensive video
guide to all 60 British butterflies, in high quality digital video, with
commentary detailing distribution, flight times and identification. 66 minutes.
VHS video £17.99.
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