Books, Charts & Maps Asia & Middle East
Birds

Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide - Second Edition
Pamela C Rasmussen & John C Anderton
A fantastic new two-volume set, the most complete and up-to-date guide to the birds of the region. Includes much previously unpublished data on id, distribution, vocalizations and taxonomy, along with critical re-appraisal of historic information. A must buy for any birder with an interest in South Asia, which in this work is treated as including the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan and the Chagos Archipelago. 1067 pages. More details...
Important Bird Areas in Asia
S Chan, M J Crosby, M Z Islam & A W Tordoff
Key Sites for Conservation. The first comprehensive inventory of Asia's key sites for birds and biodiversity. 297 pages. More details...

New Holland Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia
Craig Robson
142 colour plates cover over 1250 species from the region. 304 pages. More details...

Photographic Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia including the Philippines & Borneo
Morten Strange
700 photos of 669 species of the region, including Malaysia, Thailand and Indochina, as well as Borneo, South China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. 398 pages. More details...
Birdwatching in Azerbaijan
Sebastian Schmidt, Kai Gauger & Nigar Agayeva
The first comprehensive nature guidebook to Azerbaijan covers bird species as well as detailed landscape and nature descriptions. 224 pages. More details...

Birds of Bhutan
Carol & Tim Inskipp, Richard Grimmett
Revised reprint. Helm Field Guide. 555 species plus vagrants on 70 colour plates. 192 pages. More details...
Birds of Borneo
Clive Mann
BOU Checklist no. 23. 28 colour pages containing 68 colour plate. 440 pages. More details...

Phillips' Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo (2nd Ed)
Quentin & Karen Phillipps
Second edition of this user-friendly field guide to the birds of Borneo (Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and the Indonesian state of Kalimantan). The 669 species living or reported on the island, including 52 endemic species, are illustrated in over 2000 full colour images. 370 pages. More details...

Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo
Susan Myers
A comprehensive guide to the birdlife of Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak and Kalimantan, covering over 630 species. 272 pages. More details...


Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Borneo: Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan
Wong Tsu Shi
176 pages. More details...

Field Guide to the Birds of Central Asia
Raffaele Aye, Manuel Schweizer & Tobias Roth
Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan & Afghanistan. 336 pages. More details...

Field Guide to the Birds of China
John MacKinnon & Karen Phillips
Over 1330 species illustrated on 128 plates. Colour distribution maps are provided for all illustrated species. 656 pages. More details...

Field Guide to the Birds of East Asia
Mark Brazil
Excellent up-to-date field guide covering the whole of eastern Asia, including eastern Russia, eastern China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. It also covers the majority of the bird species found in Hong Kong. 231 colour plates. 528 pages. More details...

Photographic Guide to the Birds of India including Nepal, Sri Lanka, The Maldives, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Bhutan.
Bikram Grewal, Bill Harvey & O Pfister
850 colour photos of 800 species with distribution maps. 516 pages. More details...

Birds of Northern India
Richard Grimmett & Tim Inskipp
Helm Field Guide. Ideal for use in the 'Golden Triangle'. Light and portable. ID text faces the 120 colour plates. 304 pages. More details...

Birds of Southern India
Richard Grimmett & Tim Inskipp
Helm Field Guide. Ideal for use in Goa and Kerala. Light and portable. ID text faces the 87 colour plates. 240 pages. More details...

Field Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent
Krys Kazmierczak & Ber van Perlo
Covers 1330 species on 96 colour plates, plus distribution maps. 352 pages. More details...

Field Guide Birds of the Indian Subcontinent
Richard Grimmett, Carol & Tim Inskipp
An excellent new field guide that is a considerable improvement on previous Indian field guides! 528 pages. More details...

Guide to the Birding Hot-Spots of Israel
Shirihai, Smith, Kirwan, Alon
2000. Extensive coverage of the 23 main sites plus notes on over 100 sub-sites. Colour photos form a mini field guide. Will prove indispensable to birders visiting the country. Full checklist for the country in each guide. More details...

Northern Israel
Shirihai, Smith, Kirwan, Alon
10 main sites. 13 colour maps. 63 colour photos. 118 pages.

Southern Israel
Shirihai, Smith, Kirwan, Alon
13 main sites. 18 colour maps. 84 colour photos. 166 pages.

Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan & North-east Asia
Tadao Shimba
The first photoguide to the region in English. Over 520 species are illustrated with hundreds of stunning colour photos. The text succinctly describes the key ID features and each species has a distribution map. 512 pages. More details...

Birds of the Hashemite Kingdom Jordan
Ian Andrews
Detailed status and distribution of all 374 bird species recorded. 160 colour photos. 185 pages. More details...

Birds of Kazakhstan
Arend Wassink & Gerald Oreel
Brings together invaluable information on status, habitat, distribution and migration on all 498 species recorded in Kazakhstan (up to early 2007). Illustrated by many stunning photos. 288 pages. More details...


Birds of Malaysia & Singapore including Sabah & Sarawak
G W H Davison & Yeap Chin Aik
176 pages. More details...

Field Guide Birds of Peninsular Malaysia & Singapore: 2nd Edn.
Allen Jeyarajasingam & Alan Pearson
Covers all 673 species known to occur in the region illustrated in a series of 74 stunning full-colour plates. 484 pages. More details...


Birds of the Middle East (2nd Ed.)
Richard Porter & Simon Aspinall
Covers the Arabian peninsula (including Socotra), Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Cyprus. 476 pages. More details...

Helm Field Guide Birds of Mongolia
S Gombobaatar & A Braunlich
Available from early June 2015. 224 pages. More details...

Birds of Nepal
Richard Grimmett, Carol & Tim Inskipp
Helm Field Guide. 780 species illustrated on 110 colour plates with text on facing pages for at-a-glance reference. 288 pages. More details...
Important Bird Areas in Nepal
Hem Sagar Baral & Carol Inskipp
Key Sites for Conservation. 242 pages. More details...
Birdlife in Oman
Hanne & Jens Eriksen
Over 150 stunning colour photos of the most interesting and spectacular birds of Oman. 99 pages. More details...

Common Birds in Oman: An Identification Guide
Hanne & Jens Eriksen
Some 400 colour photographs are included in this book to help identify 250 species of birds. 256 pages. More details...

Owls
Marianne Taylor
Covers owls of the northern hemisphere. Spectacular photos! 224 pages. More details...


Birds of the Palearctic: Passerines
Norman Arlott
A field guide to all the passerines or songbirds found from Britain eastwards to Japan, and as far south as the Sahara and Himalayas. A vital purchase for every twitcher as it includes many of the rarities that have occurred accidentally in the UK and many more that may occur in the future. The Non-Passerines volume is also available 384 pages. More details...

A Guide to the Birds of the Philippines
Kennedy, Gonzales, Dickinson et al
Covers 556 species and many sub-species. 72 colour plates. 320 pages. More details...
The Birds of The Philippines
E C Dickinson, R S Kennedy, K C Parkes
BOU Checklist 12. 448 pages. More details...

Raptors of the World: A Field Guide
James Ferguson-Lees & David A Christie
Uses all of the plates from the Helm ID Guide Raptors of the World, with concise, revised text on facing pages, to create a conveniently-sized, lightweight field reference book covering all 330 raptor species. 320 pages. More details...

Birds of South-East Asia
Craig Robson
The first flexi-cover edition of this classic field guide (see Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia - original hardback version). 544 pages. More details...

Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia
Craig Robson
This fully updated edition of the award-winning 1st Edition "A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia" includes 76 new species for the region which are recent discoveries, taxonomic 'splits' or have been recorded there for the first time.
Now available as a flexi cover - see Birds of South-East Asia. 544 pages. More details...

Photographic Guide to Birds of Sri Lanka
de Silva Wijeyeratne, Warakagoda
Slim pocket guide. Colour photos of over 250 species. 144 pages. More details...


Helm Field Guide Birds of Sri Lanka
Deepal Warakagoda, Carol Inskipp, Richard Grimmett, Tim Inskipp
Provides full coverage of every species on the Sri Lanka list, including most vagrants, with particular emphasis placed on endemic species & races. 224 pages. More details...

Field Guide to the Birds of Sri Lanka
John Harrison
2nd edition (2011). 49 plates by Tim Worfolk. 208 pages. More details...
Birds of the Thai-Malay Peninsula
David Wells
1352 pages.

Volume 1 (Non-passerines)
Published by A&C Black
380 non-passerine species on 69 colour plates. 648 pages. More details...

Volume 2 (Passerines)
Published by A&C Black
Reprinting under consideration. We have stock left. 704 pages. More details...

Birds of the United Arab Emirates
Simon Aspinall & Richard Porter
The UAE is an increasingly popular tourist destination, with a good infrastructure for visting birders. 240 pages. More details...
United Arab Emirates, Checklist of (Sandgrouse)
Tommy Pedersen & Simon Aspinall
Sandgrouse Supplement 3 2010. EBRC annotated checklist of the birds of the United Arab Emirates. 96 pages. More details...

Waders of Europe, Asia and North America
Stephen Message & Don Taylor
ID reference to all the sandpipers, plovers, stints and other waders found in Europe, Asia and North America. 80 colour plates show birds at rest and in flight, in every plumage variant likely to be encountered in the region. 240 pages. More details...

Wildfowl of the Northern Hemisphere
Ray Hutchins
Illustrated field guide, showing all 77 species of wildfowl found in the Northern Hemisphere. 192 pages. More details...
Site & Travel guides, Maps
WTWB = Where to watch birds

Birding South-east China
Tim Woodward
Covers 160 sites in Hong Kong, Macau, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian. Includes 129 detailed maps with English and Chinese names throughout plus info on transport & accommodation. 423 pages. More details...
Finding Birds in North Goa
Dave Gosney

DVD
Features over 140 species. Shows exactly what it's like to go birding in the most popular birding sites in north Goa - and some that may be less well-known. 95 min. More details...
Book
April 2010. Covers the northern half of Goa, north of the Zuari river, including the most popular birding areas such as Baga, Bondla and Backwoods. 36 pages. More details...

Checklist of the Birds of Israel
Yoav Perlman & Jonathan Meyrav
Concise checklist, giving the full list of species seen in Israel, with the status and distribution of each species. 30 pages. More details...

Wildlife Guide Malaysia
Helen Oon
This exciting guide aims to inspire and help travellers to plan and enjoy tours in Malaysia's finest wildlife reserves. 160 pages. More details...


Birdwatching Guide to Oman
H & J Eriksen, P & D Sargeant
2002. Excellent! Covers over 60 of the Sultanate's top birdwatching sites.Now out of print. 253 pages. More details...

Other Fauna




Guide to the Mammals of China
Andrew Smith & Yan Xie, Eds
The most comprehensive guide to all 556 species of mammals found in China. 544 pages. More details...

Mammals of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East
S Aulagnier, P Haffner, A J Mitchell-Jones, F Moutou & J Zima
Covers over 400 terrestrial species. 100 plates with 600 colour species artworks. 272 pages. More details...


Field Guide to the Mammals of South-east Asia
Charles Francis
First comprehensive guide to mammals of this region, covering all the mammals recorded from mainland South-East Asia from Myanmar through Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia and South to Malaysia. 392 pages. More details...




Reptiles of South-East Asia
Indraneil Das
Every recognized species and sub-species is described in a detailed account covering key identification characteristics, habitat ad behaviour, distribution and status where known. Seventy-four colour plates depicts nearly 700 species, many for the first time. Where useful, details such as plastrons (for turtles & tortoises), and variations in the coloration of juveniles, males and females are shown on the plates. Black-and-white diagrams provide anatomical information. 376 pages.
Butterflies of Sri Lanka
A & A Wikramanayake
This collection of hundreds of magnificent colour photos of more than 160 different butterfly species found in Sri Lanka was compiled over four years by a father-daughter team that travelled all across the island in search of elusive species. 306 pages. More details...
A Guide to the Large Mammals of Thailand
John W K Parr
Concise guide that allows field ID of all 138 large mammal species. 206 pages. More details...

Diving & Snorkelling Guide to Tropical Marine Life of the Indo Pacific Region
Matthias Bergbauer & Manuela Kirschner
224 pages. More details...
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