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Books, Charts & Maps America - North
Birds
Peterson Guide to Bird Identification - in 12 Steps
Steve NG Howell & Brian L Sullivan
152 pages. More details…
Birds of Prey of the East: A Field Guide
Brian K Wheeler
352 pages. More details…
Birds of Prey of the West: A Field Guide
Brian K Wheeler
432 pages. More details…
Gulls Simplified: A Comparative Approach to Identification
Pete Dunne & Kevin T Karlson
Available from 13 November 2018. 192 pages. More details…
Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird
Katie Fallon
248 pages. More details…
Warblers and Other Songbirds of North America: A Life-Size Guide to Every Species
Paul Sterry
352 pages. More details…
1001 Secrets Every Bird Watcher Should Know: Tips and Trivia for the Backyard and Beyond
Sharon Stiteler
296 pages. More details…
America's 100 Most Wanted Birds
Mlodinow, O'Brien
How to find 100 of the rarest birds in the USA. Each species has a beautiful black and white illustration with tabulated sightings and text on Status and Distribution and Identification. Concludes with 40 pages of rarity photographs. 496 pages.
Attu: Birding on the Edge
Published by American Birding Association
Attu -"the Holy Grail of North American birding". This book chronicles 25 years of birding Attu and includes numerous photos and maps. 213 pages. More details…
Birders' Guide to the Behaviour of European and North American Birds
Gábor Michl
A look at bird behaviour in general, particularly sexual selection, and concentrating on non-passerines, with 41 illustrations. 293 pages.
Better Birding
George L Armistead & Brian L Sullivan
360 pages. More details…
The Big Year
Mark Obmascik
The rollicking chronicle of the 275,000-mile odyssey of three unlikely adventurers who take their bird-watching so seriously it nearly kills them. 268 pages. More details…
Crossley ID Guide - Eastern Birds
Richard Crossley
Revolutionizes field guide design by providing the first real-life approach to identification. Unlike other guides, which provide isolated individual photographs or illustrations, this is the first book to feature large, lifelike scenes for each species. 530 pages. More details…
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Crossley ID Guide - (North American) Raptors
Richard Crossley, Jerry Liquori & Brian Sullivan
A revolutionary, comprehensive, and authoritative photo guide to North American's diurnal raptors. 304 pages. More details…
Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America
Guy Baldassarre et al
Classic guide to the Ducks, Geese, and Swans of North America. 1027 pages. More details…
Golden Wings and other Stories about Birders and Birding
Pete Dunne
Collection of 41 of Dunne's articles and essays from various media, offering his perspective on birders and birding. 122 pages. More details…
Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America
K M Olsen & H Larsson
Revised edition. Helm Identification Guide. 608 pages. More details…
Hardback £50.00 £41.99
Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific
H D Pratt, P L Bruner & D G Berrett
45 colour plates. Covers the Hawaiian Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, south-eastern Polynesia and Micronesia and the surrounding oceans. 409 pages. More details…
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Softback £40.00 £38.95
Hawks at a Distance: Identification of Migrant Raptors
Jerry Liguori
192 pages. More details…
Hummingbirds: A Life-Size Guide to Every Species
Michael Fogden, Marianne Taylor & Sheri L Williamson
Dazzling, life-size, cut-out photos of over 300 species. 400 pages. More details…
Hummingbirds of North America
Paul Johnsgard
24 colour plates and 40 maps. 328 pages.
Hardback £35.00 £26.99
North American Hummingbirds: An Identification Guide
George C West
233 pages. More details…
Listening to a Continent Sing: Birdsong by Bicycle from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Donald E Kroodsma
224 pages. More details…
Collins Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Central America
Ber van Perlo
Illustrates and describes over 1500 species that may be seen in Central America, from Mexico to Panama, including Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. 98 colour plates. 336 pages. More details…
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Hardback £29.99
Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Adjacent Areas; Belize, Guatemala & El Salvador
Ernest Preston Edwards
Revised edition. Illustrations of 850 species on 51 colour plates. 209 pages. More details…
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Softback £26.99 £24.99
Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America
Steve Howell & Sophie Webb
868 pages. More details…
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Softback £42.00 £40.99
Southern Mexico - Travellers' Wildlife Guide
Les Beletsky
Full colour illustrations of southern Mexico's most common fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. 488 pages. More details…
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Collins Field Guide Birds of North America and Greenland,
Norman Arlott
Useful compact guide covering the USA, Canada and Greenland (over 900 species). 272 pages. More details…
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Hardback £29.99 £26.99
Birds of North America (American Museum of Natural History)
Francois Vuilleurmeir
744 pages.
Birds of Eastern North America - A Photographic Guide
Paul Sterry & Brian E Small
This is the best and most lavishly illustrated photographic guide to the birds of eastern North America. 1,118 colour photos and 405 maps. A sister production to Birds of Western North America - A Photographic Guide 336 pages. More details…
Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Eastern Region
Donald & Lillian Stokes
This easy-to-use guide features 545 North American bird species and more than 2,000 stunning color photographs. 512 pages. More details…
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Softback £16.99 £12.99
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
Edited by Jon Dunn. Illustrated by Jonathan Alderfer
Edition 7. 1,023 species (including 37 new species). 16 new pages allow for 250 fresh illustrations, 80 new maps, and 350 map revisions. 592 pages. More details…
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Pocket Guide: Birds of North America
Laura Erickson
Stokes Field Guide To The Birds Of North America
Donald & Lillian Stokes
816 pages. More details…
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Softback £19.99 £15.99
Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Western Region
Donald & Lillian Stokes
576 pages. More details…
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Softback £16.99 £12.99
Birds of Western North America - A Photographic Guide
Paul Sterry & Brian E Small
Combining informative and accessible text, up-to-date maps, and - above all - stunning colour photos, this is the best and most lavishly illustrated photographic guide to the birds of western North America. 1,341 colour photos and 449 maps. (Also available: Birds of Eastern North America - A Photographic Guide ) 416 pages. More details…
North American Bird Guide
David Sibley
In stock and available for immediate dispatch. 624 pages. More details…
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Offshore Sea Life ID Guide West Coast
Steve N G Howell & Brian L Sullivan
56 pages. More details…
Owls
Marianne Taylor
Covers owls of the northern hemisphere. Spectacular photos! 224 pages. More details…
Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America: A Photographic Guide
Steve Howell
".. And at £31, the title is practically being given away! Four words that sum up this book: accessible; informative; stunning; essential."
- Stephen Menzie, BirdGuides
420 pages. More details…
Photographic Guide to North American Raptors
Eds. Brian Wheeler & William Clark
377 colour photos of all 42 diurnal raptors, at rest and in flight, in male, female, adult, juvenile and subadult plumages, with all usual colour morphs depicted. 216 pages. More details…
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Softback £19.99
Rare Birds of North America
Steve NG Howell, Ian Lewington & Will Russell
Featuring Ian Lewington's unsurpassed artistry. 428 pages. More details…
Shorebirds of North America: The Photographic Guide
Dennis Paulson
More than 530 colour photos illustrate all North American shorebirds in their varied plumages. 361 pages. More details…
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Softback £24.99 £21.99
Shorebirds of the Northern Hemisphere
Richard Chandler
Excellent new photographic guide. Covers 134 species, focussing on species and sub-species separation and on ageing to provide a complete identification resource. 448 pages. More details…
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Softback £40.00 £35.99
Sibley Birds East
David Sibley
This Second Edition of The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America features 650 bird species. 464 pages. More details…
Sibley Birds West
David Sibley
This Second Edition of The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America features 715 bird species. 504 pages. More details…
Tales of a Low-Rent Birder
P Dunne
A collection of 19 essays illustrated by David Sibley. 176 pages.
Tanagers, Cardinals & Finches of the United States and Canada
David Beadle, JD Rising
The first comprehensive photographic identification guide to this group, with 200 color photographs and 44 maps. 196 pages.
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…
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Softback £30.00 £25.00
Warbler Guide
Tom Stephenson & Scott Whittle
Makes American warbler ID easier than ever before. 560 pages. More details…
Site & Travel guides, Maps
ABA = American Birding Association. WTWB = Where to watch birds. See South & Central America for guides to Bermuda & Bahama Islands, etc.
National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States
National Geogrpahic
496 pages. More details…
A Birder's Guide to Alaska
George C West
Second Edition (2008). Details birding routes and travel logistics for over 60 locations, with over 120 detailed route maps. 662 pages. More details…
A Birder's Guide to Southeast Arizona
Richard Cachor Taylor
2005 - second edition. Maps, directions and tips for the best birding hotspots. 342 pages. More details…
A Birder's Guide to Arkansas
Mel White
59 sites are described, with many detailed maps. 260 pages. More details…
A Birder's Guide to Churchill (Manitoba)
Bonnie Chartier
Revised edition (1994). 132 pages. More details…
Birding Colorado
Hugh Kingery
Falcon Guide Series. More than 90 prime locations; 179 sites. Photos & maps throughout. 288 pages. More details…
Birding Corpus Christi and the Coastal Bend
Jamie Ritter
256 pages. More details…
Birder's Guide to Florida
Bill Pranty
250 prime sites are listed with detailed location instructions & brand new clearly drawn maps. 418 pages. More details…
Florida: Traveller's Wildlife Guide
Fiona & Mel Sunquist
Includes full-colour illustrations of more than 600 of Florida's most common insects, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals and plants and brief descriptions of the region's most frequently visited parks and reserves. 400 pages. More details…
Birdwatcher's Guide to Hawai'I
Rick Soehren
(1996) features more than sixty top birding sites on O'ahu, Kaua'I, the Big Island, Maui, Moloka'I and Lana'I. 215 pages.
Hawaii
Les Beletsky
Colour illustrations of more than 300 of the islands' most common fishes, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and essentially every Hawaiian bird. 416 pages. More details…
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Softback £18.99
How to Be a Better Birder
Derek Lovitch
This book will take your birding skills to the next level. 202 pages. More details…
Birding Illinois
Sheryl De Vore
356 pages. More details…
A Birder's Guide to Metropolitan Areas
Paul Lehman, compiler
Covers 30-plus North American cities. 480 pages. More details…
A Birder's Guide to Michigan
Allen T Chartier and Jerry Ziarno
2004. Describes over 200 sites, with details on each site's birds, best seasons, and driving directions, accompanied by 200-plus maps. 660 pages. More details…
Birds of New Jersey: Status & Distribution
Kevin Karlson
2011. The up-to-date definitive status of birds in one of the states most relevant to Britain and Europe, with 202 colour photographs and 460 maps. 308 pages.
Birdfinder: A Birder's Guide to Planning North American Trips
Jerry A Cooper
Where and when to find the birds of North America. 376 pages. More details…
Birding Sites of Nova Scotia
Blake Maybank
County by County, directions to and information about hundreds of places to bird in Nova Scotia. 554 pages. More details…
Offshore Sea Life ID Guide East Coast
Steve N G Howell & Brian L Sullivan
Guide to offshore sea life of the east coast of North America. 64 pages. More details…
A Birder's Guide to the Rio Grande Valley
Lockwood, McKinney, Paton & Zimmer
Forty-seven detailed maps augment the route instructions. 189 pages. More details…
A Birder's Guide to the Texas Coast
Mel Cooksey & Ron Weeks
Revised edition: 2006. (Original text by James A. Lane). 344 pages. More details…
Finding Birds in South Texas
Dave Gosney
Covers the best birding sites in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. 90 min. More details…
DVD
Lower Rio Grande Valley in the winter months. Footage of 120 species including many South Texas specialities. 90 min.
Booklet
July 2011. Describes the best birding sites in the Valley in exceptional detail, including Dave Gosney's trademark maps of all the sites. 40 pages.
A Birder's Guide to Virginia
David Johnston (compiler)
288 pages. More details…
A Birder's Guide to Washington
Jane Hadley (Editor), Washington Ornithological Society
360 pages. More details…
Birding Washington
Rob & Natalie McNair-Huff
70 bird watchings sites across the state of Washington. 389 pages.
Other Fauna
A Swift Guide to Butterflies of North America
Jeffrey Glassberg
424 pages. More details…
Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East
Dennis Paulson
544 pages. More details…
Garden Insects of North America
Whitney Cranshaw & David Shetlar
704 pages. More details…
Mark Carwardine's Guide to Whale Watching in North America
Mark Carwardine
256 pages. More details…
Bees in your Backyard
Joseph S Wilson & Olivia Messinger Carril
A guide to North America's Bees. 288 pages. More details…
Bumble Bees of North America
Paul Williams, Robbin Thorp, Leif Richardson & Sheila Colla
Best guide to identifying the 46 species in the region. 208 pages. More details…
Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico & Central America
Jeffrey Glassberg
224 pages. More details…
Swift Guide to the Butterflies of North America
Jeffrey Glassberg
Illustrates, with 3500 gorgeous full colour photos, all North American butterflies. 416 pages. More details…
Whales & Dolphins of the North American Pacific
G Cresswell, D Walker & T Pusser
First comprehensive photo guide to the cetaceans of the North American Pacific, covering all 38 species of cetacean, plus 6 species of seal and the Sea Otter. 216 pages. More details…
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Softback £20.00 £10.00
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Wildlife (General)
Alaska
Les Beletsky & Dennis Paulson
Ecotravellers' Wildlife Guide. Colour illustrations of the most common insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. 430 pages. More details…
The Arctic Guide: Wildlife of the Far North
Sharon Chester
542 pages. More details…
Hawaii
Les Beletsky
Colour illustrations of more than 300 of the islands' most common fishes, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and essentially every Hawaiian bird. 416 pages. More details…
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Softback £18.99
Mammals of North America National Geographic Pocket Guide
Catherine Howell
184 pages. More details…
Southern Mexico - Travellers' Wildlife Guide
Les Beletsky
Full colour illustrations of southern Mexico's most common fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. 488 pages. More details…
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Offshore Sea Life ID Guide West Coast
Steve N G Howell & Brian L Sullivan
56 pages. More details…
Offshore Wildlife of the North Atlantic
Michael H Tove
A complete guide for pelagic trips in the entire North Atlantic area - birds, cetaceans, seals and turtles. 39 colour plates. 262 pages. More details…
Prairie Dreams
Andy Stoddart
An environmental history of the Great Plains. 262 pages. More details…
Photographic Guide to Seashore Life in the North Atlantic
J Duane Sept
Atlantic seashore life from Canada to Cape Cod. More details…
John Kirk Townsend - Collector of Audubon's Western Birds and Mammals
Barbara & Richard Mearns
This is the first in-depth biography of Townsend, an ornithologist from Philadelphia who crossed the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River in 1834 and made two visits to the Hawaiian Islands. He returned home with a great haul of bird and mammal specimens used by J.J. Audubon in his Birds of America and Viviparous Quadrupeds.
Barbara and Richard Mearns examine Townsend's Quaker upbringing, track him on his journey westwards, provide a modern zoological commentary on his discoveries, trace his troubled career and discuss his association with Audubon and the major contribution that Townsend made to his famous works.
The book is essential reading for those with an interest in early Western travels and the Oregon Trail, the wildlife of the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest, or the history of birding. 389 pages. More details…
A Wolf called Romeo
Nick Jans
The remarkable story of a wolf who returned again and again to interact with the people and dogs of Juneau, Alaska. 288 pages.
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