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When Lee Evans' Ultimate Site Guide was published in 1996 it became an instant classic. For the first time in one place, British birders could discover how and where to see over 100 rarer and more difficult-to-find species. These are the birds that can make birding such an exciting and rewarding activity: there is nothing quite like the thrill of tracking down and observing elusive and attractive species such as Hawfinch, Spotted Crake and Great Grey Shrike.
Now BirdGuides has re-published Lee Evans' original guide in a fully revised, updated and extended edition. The information has been carefully reviewed for accuracy and also remembering the need to protect vulnerable breeders. The species accounts have been further enhanced with more than 60 new vignettes from illustrator Ray Scally.
For each of the 142 species covered this book tells you all you need to know, including:
327pp, softback.
Following its hugely successful launch in 1999, Collins Bird Guide – the ultimate reference book for bird enthusiasts – now enters its second edition.
With expanded text and additional colour illustrations, the second edition is a must for every birdwatcher. The book provides all the information needed to identify any species at any time of the year, covering size, habitat, range, identification and voice. Accompanying every species entry is a distribution map and illustrations showing the species in all the major plumages (male, female, immature, in flight, at rest, feeding: whatever is important). In addition, each group of birds includes an introduction which covers the major problems involved in identifying or observing them: how to organise a sea-watching trip, how to separate birds of prey in flight, which duck hybrids can be confused with which main species. These and many other common birdwatching questions are answered. The combination of definitive text, up-to-date distribution maps and superb illustrations, all in a single volume, makes this book the ultimate field guide, essential on every bookshelf and birdwatching trip.
pp 448, 3500 illustrations, 700 maps
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The Dordogne is a wonderful area to visit at any time of year and a popular destination for families. This book will help you get the most out of a visit, highlighting the best birding areas and offering advice for your holiday.
Contents include:
From the Verteillac plain in the north to Cahors in the south, Birding Dordogne covers all of the best birding spots of this easy-to-get-to location.
Paperback, b/w, 32pp.
Asked about his forthcoming book, Anthony replied, "Having worked myself up from The Observer's Book of Birds and pawnshop opera glasses to Swarovski ELs (and abject poverty) it is has been a cathartic experience to survey a life directed by birdwatching. Looking back and writing about what happened has given me a chance to don rose-coloured binoculars and make sure that, with the passage of time and the onset of a failing memory, truth did not get in the way of a good story. The book is about the moments that punctuated days either in the company of birds or in the company of a class of humanity that both Darwin and Linnaeus overlooked — Homo orno, the birdwatcher. Somewhere in the middle of it all is a deeper meaning — expressed best by Mrs McGeehan who observed the process from the sidelines and has charted, in several pithy epistles, my descent into a Life of Birds."
This is Anthony McGeehan's first title for The Sound Approach. Birding From The Hip is a collection of stories spanning seventeen years that details with humour a life spent in the field. Accompanied by two free CDs containing stories narrated by Anthony (in addition to Mrs McGeehan) and put to music by Grammy Award nominated producer, and founder of The Imagined Village, Simon Emmerson, this book is a must for anyone who wants to take a hilarious look at the joys of birdwatching. There's more to birdwatching than birds.
If you want to see the best birds of Andalucia, including species such as Red-knobbed Coot, Little Swift, Spanish Imperial Eagle, Marbled Duck, Black-shouldered Kite, Black-rumped Waxbill and Great Bustard, then this is the book for you. No other book highlights the best sites so clearly and tells you exactly where to go, in such detail and with such precise maps. It is based on Dave Gosney’s earlier best-selling title, Finding Birds in Southern Spain, but includes:
This is the book that tells you exactly where to go to find the most sought-after birds in the deserts of Morocco including precise locations for species such as Desert Sparrow, Scrub Warbler, Mourning Wheatear, Egyptian Nightjar, Saharan Olivaceous Warbler, Dupont's Lark, Desert Warbler, Pharaoh Eagle Owl, Crowned Sandgrouse and many more.
It is based on Finding Birds in Southern Morocco but includes:
An up-to-date guide to tell you exactly where to go on any birdwatching holiday to Goa. It covers all of the best sites in the northern half of Goa - that's the part that most birdwatchers visit - including Bondla, the Backwoods camp and the areas around Baga.
This brand new book shows you, in the clearest possible way, exactly where to go to look for the most exciting birds of northern Spain: Wallcreepers, Lammergeiers, Great Bustards, Little Bustards, Snowfinches, Black Woodpeckers, Dupont's Larks...
Compared to other publications covering the same area, this one:
Softcover, b/w, 36 pages
Maximise your chances of connecting with your very own rare with this recession-busting bundle offer. Buy both L. G. R. Evans' Ultimate Site Guide to Scarcer British Birds and Russell Slack's Rare Birds Where and When and save almost £9 (normal price £54.90).
This offer is only available to UK customers due to postage costs - sorry.
Rare Birds, Where and When: An analysis of status & distribution in Britain and Ireland by Russell Slack pulls together the records for all species presently treated as 'rarities' by the British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC) and the Irish Rare Birds Committee (IRBC) and is probably the most detailed analysis and interpretation of rare bird records in Britain & Ireland ever undertaken.
For each species there is:
For those that have occurred on fewer than 20 occasions there is a complete list of all records, tabulated by county, location date, age, sex, and if applicable racial attribution.
For those that have occurred on more than 20 occasions there is an in-depth analysis:
460 pages (including 114 graphs, 26 tables, c.45 black and white drawings), hardback with colour dustjacket.
Here's a book to inspire any birdwatcher. It covers many subjects at the cutting edge of what is being discovered about birds, written by Martin Garner and a team of British birdwatchers who enthuse us about their own efforts to push forward the boundaries of what we know and implore the rest of us to join in.
The contributions include:
But the meat of the book is Martin Garner's chapters on cutting-edge identification problems. These not only explain what is currently known, they also point out that surely we must be overlooking birds such as female White-winged Scoter, female Green-winged Teal, Pacific Fulmar, Yelkouan Shearwater and Moorhens, Eiders, Merlins and Hen Harriers of the American races. These birds must be out there. Armed with this book, you have a chance of finding them.
This book makes a significant step towards reminding us of what has recently been discovered but more than that it points out that there are many things that are still unknown. The pioneering birders who have contributed to this book have reminded us that there are many frontiers left to explore.
The newly-released Best Birdwatching Sites in Cornwall & Scilly is the fifth book in the Best Birdwatching Sites series and features 52 mainland sites, plus seven routes around the key islands of Scilly. In this volume main author Sara McMahon of the Cornwall Birdwatching & Preservation Society brings years of experience to the task of revealing the secrets of one of Britain’s leading bird counties – from the rarity haunts of the coastal valleys to the best seawatching look-outs and wildfowl-rich moorland reservoirs.
Your guide to Scilly is Nigel Hudson of the local Bird Group. He describes walks on the main birding islands and provides masses of useful information about sites, boats and seawatching to help the first-time visitor.
210pp.
North Wales has so much to offer the visiting birdwatcher. Inland, the peaceful oak woodlands burst into life each spring as migrant songbirds return and on the upper slopes it is still possible to see superb species such as Black Grouse, Merlin and Hen Harrier.
Thousands of waders and wildlife congregate along the Dee Estuary and for seabird fans, what could beat a visit to Anglesey?
This book features around 60 sites from South Stack on Anglesey to Gresford Flash near Wrexham, together with detailed maps and access information, disabled access, public transport information and even a guide on how to pronounce the Welsh names correctly!
This latest addition to Collin's highly regarded, long running New Naturalist series covers all four species of grouse found in the UK and Ireland namely Ptarmigan, Capercaillie, Red Grouse and Black Grouse. This is a massive book with comprehensive coverage of the natural history of all four species. It is filled with superb colour photographs and is highly readable.
Recent research regarding government policies has clarified old problems and controversies, which makes this new study on British grouse timely, if not essential. Adam Watson and Robert Moss offer some insight into the natural history and biology of British grouse species, ranging from aspects of behaviour and historical relevance of their names to population fluctuations and conservation efforts.
Hardcover, 529 pages, colour photos, diagrams.
Special offer: save £5 off RRP
Since it’s launch in 1980, The Birdwatcher’s Yearbook has proven to be the ESSENTIAL fact-filled guide to all aspects of the British birding scene.
Whether you are a journalist, a professional ornithologist or simply an every day birdwatcher, The Birdwatcher’s Yearbook should be your first port of call when looking for crucial information. Forget spending hours trawling the internet looking for a contact name or other key data – you’ll find it in the Yearbook – and it’s a resource you can carry with you wherever you go.
Within its 352 pages readers will find up-to-date and fully checked information on virtually everything to do with birdwatching in the UK.
A Sound Approach guide. Explore the latest frontier of European birding. Be amazed by exclusive stereo recordings of 23 petrels as they electrify the night. Learn from full-colour plates, how to identify these mysterious birds as they fly past our shores. Discover for yourself how research has decrypted new species on vulnerable and secret islands.
Petrels night and day illustrates the sounds with sonagrams and describes the recording locations. Listen to Zino’s, Fea’s, Desertas and Bulwer’s Petrel, Cory’s, Scopoli’s and Cape Verde Shearwater, Great Shearwater, Madeiran and Boyd’s Little Shearwater, Manx, Balearic and Yelkouan Shearwater, Northern Fulmar, White-faced Storm Petrel, European and Mediterranean Storm Petrel, Leach’s Storm Petrel, Atlantic, Monteiro’s, Madeiran and Cape Verde Storm Petrel, and Swinhoe’s Storm Petrel. Learn how to identify them in daylight, when they are joined by Sooty Shearwater and Wilson’s Storm Petrel from the Southern Hemisphere.
Be warned: this book could start a serious obsession. From the team that brought you The Sound Approach to birding, featuring the adventures of Magnus Robb, sound recordist and composer, and the identification expertise of Collins field guide illustrator Killian Mullarney.
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The most detailed notes and maps available to help you find the birds of Egypt such as Sooty Falcon, Painted Snipe, Senegal Thick-knee, White-cheeked Tern, Nile-valley Sunbird, Kittlitz's Plover, etc.Click here for an Online Update to this book
Detailed notes and maps tell you exactly where to find most of Portugal's best birds including Black-shouldered Kite, Great and Little Bustard, Purple Gallinule, Caspian Tern, Lesser Short-toed Lark and Waxbill. Includes all the areas south of Lisbon, including the Algarve.
The second edition is updated based on a trip in March 2009 and runs to an extra 9 pages, including 4 pages of extra maps. It concentrates on ‘new’ sites that aren’t covered in the rest of the book, including:
In addition there’s some extra text about some of the other sites in the book and some advice that you really should read before looking for Crested Mynas near Lisbon.
The most detailed information available on where to find birds such as Cinereous Bunting, Crimson-winged Finch, Kruper's Nuthatch, White-throated Robin and White-breated Kingfisher within a day's drive of the Turkish holiday resorts.
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