London: T&AD Poyser, 2010. — 608 p. — (Poyser Monographs). — ISBN 978-1-4081-3905-9. Bird observatories are research stations established mainly for the study of migration, particularly by means of ringing. There are now 20 scattered around the British Isles at key points on migration routes, on coastal promontories or small islands. Part of their attraction is the regular...
Quercus, 2018. — 226 p. Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to British Birds is all about comedian Bailey's love of birds. A visual feast - it is packed with illustrations, sketches and notes by Bailey - as well as informative, it is funny and insightful, and positively crackles with energy, knowledge and wit as he takes us on a journey around the British isles, zooming in on those...
London: Bloomsbury, 2010. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7136-7633-4. — Helm County Avifauna. The County Avifauna series provides detailed information on the range and status of bird species at county level. Areas covered so far include Norfolk, Suffolk, Dorset, the Shetland Islands and the Isles of Scilly, with " The Birds of Essex " in press. Each title includes a breakdown of rarity...
New York, NY: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1975. — 185 p. Amidst the high cliffs and pounding waves of Northern Norway are the summer nesting sites for millions of sea birds such as puffins, guillemots, razorbills and Arctic and common terns. Written by an author who has extensively travelled in the region, this is the often dramatic account of his mission to locate the...
London: MacMillan Publishers, 1974. — 263 p. — ISBN 978-1-349-02393-6. There are many reasons for me to have accepted the invitation to introduce this book to conservationists, ornithologists and scientists alike. In the first place it cannot be denied that the impact of man on the geographical distribution of all kinds of animals, and birds of prey in particular, has been...
Cambridge University Press, 1989. — 292 p. — ISBN: 978-0-5213-2863-0. David Lack produced the first Birds of Cambridgeshire in 1934 for the Cambridge Bird Club. Since then the avifauna of the county has changed dramatically and the body of the information gathered, largely by amateur birdwatchers, has grown enormously. The bulk of the book is, like Lack's original, an annotated...
HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1976. — 416 p. — ISBN13: 978-0002194051. Leslie Brown's account of our 15 resident, 7 vagrant and 2 migrant species of eagles, falcons, hawks and vultures in Britain presents a great mass of scientific information about our birds of prey in a manner as attractive to the general reader as to the dedicated ornithologist. This edition is...
Helm, 2024. — 337 p. — ISBN 978–1-3994–0362–7 From the deep forests of Kent to the low-lying mudflats, beaches and saltmarshes of the Greater Thames Estuary, this ecologically rich area of England attracts vast numbers of wildfowl and waders. The region boasts many internationally and nationally important reserves including Rainham Marshes and Cliffe Pools, while Dungeness in...
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691-15764-1. All birds are equal, but some are more equal than others. It’s a simple truth that as a group our raptors command more attention than the majority of our other bird fauna, and always have done. I’m often asked by young and old which is my favourite bird. It’s a very difficult question but only...
HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0261671723, ISBN13: 978-0261671720. Part 2 /file/3076934/ A comprehensive and highly-illustrated guide to the birds of Great Britain. This book provides a unique combination of identification pages with full-colour artworks and information pages that describe and illustrate habitats, breeding and feeding behaviour and flight...
HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0261671723, ISBN13: 978-0261671720. Part 1 /file/3076932/ A comprehensive and highly-illustrated guide to the birds of Great Britain. This book provides a unique combination of identification pages with full-colour artworks and information pages that describe and illustrate habitats, breeding and feeding behaviour and flight...
London: Collins, 1974. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0-00-216753-0. In recent years attention has been focused on seabirds in many parts of the world: huge numbers have been killed in oil spills at sea olf America, South Africa, Europe and elsewhere; the guano-producing seabirds of the Peruvian coast have been declining; hundreds of thousands of auks are caught and killed each year in nets...
Unabridged Edition — Helm, 2015. — 688 p. The Iberian Peninsula is one of Europe's most ornithologically varied regions offering a host of regional specialities. It includes famous birding hotspots such as the Coto Donaña wetlands, mountainous areas such as the Picos de Europa and the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean cork and holm oak forests of the southwest, the migration...
London: T&AD Poyser, 2010. — 392 p. — (Poyser Monographs). — ISBN 978-1-4081-3793-2. Rare Birds Day by Day creates a fascinating look at the world of scarce and rare birds found in Britain and Ireland. Written by well known and experienced British birders and rare bird finders, this edition is particularly valuable to anyone with an interest in finding and watching rare migrant...
London: T&AD Poyser, 2010. — 366 p. — ISBN 978-1-4081-3962-2. — Poyser Monographs. This book by a trio of rare-bird specialists is a successor to two earlier works (long out of print), Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain and Ireland (Sharrock 1974) and Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland (Sharrock 1976). It unifies both of the earlier books and updates them, adding more than 80...
Calton, STS: Poyser, 2010. — 560 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4081-3694-2. — Poyser Monographs. The Strait of Gibraltar is famous as a major point of passage for Palaearctic birds migrating between their European breeding grounds and their winter quarters in Africa. Clive Finlayson, a native of the Rock and a trained ornithologist, presents a fascinating account of the region and its...
Aberlady: The Scottish Ornithologists’ Club, 2012. — P. 1-844. — ISBN 978-0-9512139-4-0. This book is published by The Scottish Ornithologists’ Club to continue the tradition of in-depth examination and analysis of the changes to Scotland’s birdlife over the years. It is the third avifauna to be published in the last half-century. Evelyn Baxter and Leonora Rintoul wrote the...
Aberlady: The Scottish Ornithologists’ Club, 2012. — P. 845-1640. — ISBN 978-0-9512139-4-0. This book is published by The Scottish Ornithologists’ Club to continue the tradition of in-depth examination and analysis of the changes to Scotland’s birdlife over the years. It is the third avifauna to be published in the last half-century. Evelyn Baxter and Leonora Rintoul wrote the...
London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1837. — 236 p. Lithographs with original hand-coloring. Первый том пятитомного издания. Язык — английский. Книга знакомит читателя с творчеством выдающегося английского зоолога и анималиста Джона Гульда (1804-1881). Шесть сотен завораживающих раскрашенных гравюр выдающегося английского орнитолога XIX века — настоящая...
London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1837. — 420 p. Lithographs with original hand-coloring. Второй том пятитомного издания. Язык — английский. Книга знакомит читателя с творчеством выдающегося английского зоолога и анималиста Джона Гульда (1804-1881). Шесть сотен завораживающих раскрашенных гравюр выдающегося английского орнитолога XIX века — настоящая...
London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1837. — 395 p. Lithographs with original hand-coloring. Третий том пятитомного издания. Язык — английский. Книга знакомит читателя с творчеством выдающегося английского зоолога и анималиста Джона Гульда (1804-1881). Шесть сотен завораживающих раскрашенных гравюр выдающегося английского орнитолога XIX века — настоящая...
London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1837. — 436 p. Lithographs with original hand-coloring. Четвертый том пятитомного издания. Язык — английский. Книга знакомит читателя с творчеством выдающегося английского зоолога и анималиста Джона Гульда(1804-1881). Шесть сотен завораживающих раскрашенных гравюр выдающегося английского орнитолога XIX века — настоящая...
London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1837. — 436 p. Lithographs with original hand-coloring. Пятый том пятитомного издания. Язык — английский. Книга знакомит читателя с творчеством выдающегося английского зоолога и анималиста Джона Гульда(1804-1881). Шесть сотен завораживающих раскрашенных гравюр выдающегося английского орнитолога XIX века — настоящая...
Krakow: Fundacja Wspierania Inicjatyw Ekologicznych, 2007. — 56 p.
W ramach projektu "Aktywna ochrona sów w Polsce", realizowanego przez Fundację Wspierania Inicjatyw Ekologicznych, została opracowana książka zawierająca informacje na temat wszystkich sów lęgowych Polski i zalatujących na teren naszego kraju, ich biologii i ekologii. Książka opatrzona jest schematami, zdjęciami i...
London: John Ouseley, Ltd, 1909. — 238 p. It has been suggested by naturalists and wild fowlers who have from time to time visited this part of England, that I should write a book of my experiences respecting observations of the migratory feathered tribe. Of the bigger birds, which habitually visit the place from early September to the end of March, I have observed more than...
London: Bloomsbury, 2010. — 704 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7136-7233-6. — Helm County Avifauna. The County Avifaunas are a growing series of books, each of which gives details of the status and range of every species on the county list, with a detailed breakdown of rarity records. Each has introductory sections describing the county's ecology and habitats, climate, ornithological history...
Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2018. — 258 p. — ISBN-13 978-1472965189 The RSPB Handbook of Scottish Birds is the ideal reference for keen birdwatchers and visitors to Scotland alike, and this fully updated second edition is richer and more comprehensive than ever. Over 250 species are covered in detail with each account including information on identification, voice, habits, habitat,...
5th Edition. — London: Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2021. — 320 p. — ISBN 978-1-4729-8011-3. The bestselling RSPB Handbook of British Birds is the most comprehensive reference for birdwatchers of all levels of interest and experience. Now in its fifth edition, it remains the most accessible field guide to more than 300 bird species likely to be encountered in Britain and Ireland....
London: Heath Cranton Ltd., 1923. — 266 p. Birds, like men, may be looked at from many points of view. Admirable text-books exist that tell us of the material side. But there are many aspects of bird life that he outside the textbooks. The idea of this book is to try to show something of the animating principle of the bird, how it lives, moves, and has its being, how it reacts to...
The Welsh Ornithological Society, 2017. — 188 p. — Welsh Bird Report No.30, 2016. The Welsh Records Panel considers records of all scarce species in Wales, defined as those occurring five times or fewer per year in Wales on average, but which are not on the BBRC list. The current list is shown below. Only records of these species adjudicated and accepted by the Panel are published...
London: Bloomsbury, 2011. — 240 p. —— ISBN: 978-1408155547. The moult strategies of birds are not only of importance in their impact on a species' ecology and energetics, but as a valuable tool for anyone studying the migration and population dynamics of bird species. A proper understanding of how feathers are replaced, and the precise differences in appearance of the various...
London: Porter&Co, 1895. - 416 p.
The bulk of the following Notes has already been published at irregular intervals in the "Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society" from its commencement in 1880 up to the end of 1893. I must explain my frequent reference to various parts of the world by stating that in the early years of our Society's existence we had not any...
London: Porter&Co, 1895. - 358 p.
The bulk of the following Notes has already been published at irregular intervals in the "Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society" from its commencement in 1880 up to the end of 1893. I must explain my frequent reference to various parts of the world by stating that in the early years of our Society's existence we had not any...
University of Chicago Press, 2017. — 384 p. From the merlin to the golden eagle, the goshawk to the honey buzzard, James Macdonald Lockhart’s stunning debut is a quest of beak, talon, wing, and sky. On its surface, Raptor is a journey across the British Isles in search of fifteen species of birds of prey, but as Lockhart seeks out these elusive predators, his quest becomes so...
Birds in Wales (Poyser Monographs) by Roger Lovegrove, Iolo Williams, Graham Williams
London, T & AD POYSER. 2010, 373 pages
The rugged countryside of Wales has long been a destination for successive generations of naturalists, ornithologists, oologists and, latterly, birdwatchers. Since the pioneering days of Willoughby and Ray, Pennant and Edward Llwyd, a growing number of...
Second Edition. — London: Christopher Helm, 1993. — 313 p. — ISBN 0-7136-3704-8. Where to Watch Birds in Scotland covers over 120 main sites and many additional locations of interest for the birdwatcher. Under the headings of ‘habitat’, ‘species’, ‘access’, ‘timing’ and ‘calendar’, each site is described in detail, providing the visitor with all the information required for a...
VEB Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag, 1982. — 297 S. Die Vogelkunde wird oft als „scientia amabilis", als die „liebenswerte Wissenschaft" bezeichnet. Ich meine, bei den Limikolen könnte man den Superlativ gebrauchen. Gibt es anmutigere Vögel? Wohl kaum! Ein Blick auf die Farbtafeln wird uns davon überzeugen. Altvögel wie Dunenjunge begeistern in ihrem Aussehen und in ihren...
Berlin: Springer, 2011. — 538 p. — ISBN: 978-3642708978. — Nato Advanced Science Institutes Series. Subseries G. Book 12. May I first congratulate, inconditionally, the Association MEDMARAVIS for organizing this symposium and for inviting me re presenting the Sardinian Ministry of the Environment. I would like to assert that such initiatives help a great deal and in a concrete...
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. — 272 p. A pocket-friendly photographic field guide to 290 birds of the British Isles. RSPB Birds of the British Isles features all regularly occurring birds in Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man, covering familiar year-round species such as Wren and Sparrowhawk, winter and summer visitors including Purple Sandpiper and Arctic Tern, and a...
William Collins, 2017. - 1556 p. The effects of modern agricultural practices on the countryside and its wildlife are strikingly evident to every naturalist. During the latter half of the 20th century, a revolution in farming occurred, bringing a heavy dependence on synthetic fertilisers and pesticides. At the same time, farming became much more mechanised, science-based and...
London: Christopher Helm, 2010. — 440 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4081-3874-8. — Helm County Avifauna. As the combined British and Irish list edges ever closer to 600 (several new species are added each year), the need for a new, up-to-date status of our birds becomes more apparent. This authoritative work of reference gives a detailed assessment of the status and distribution of every...
T. & A. D. Poyser LTD, 1973 — 272 p. — (Poyser Monographs). — ISBN: (e-PDF) 978-1-4081-3705-5. Every one of the 887 species of birds found in Britain and Europe is described and illustrated — including all rarities and introduced species. The book provides the information needed to identify every species — whatever its age or sex — and special pages highlight groups of birds...
Монография. — Klagenfurt : Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein für Kärnten, 2013. — 256 S. Книга о чеглоке (Falco subbuteo). Inhalt (Содержание) Einleitung und Zielsetzungen Name und Geschichte Systematik Bestimmung und Mauser Stimme MaBe, äußere Merkmale und Auge Flugleistungsvermögen Verbreitung, Bestand und Lebensraum Verhalten im Jahresverlauf Zwischenartliche Verhaltensweisen...
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1898. — 290 p. This little work will, I trust, be found useful as a Sketch-book of the Birds of Great Britain. Its limits have not allowed of my attempting a full history of the species, and I have but added a few notes as a running commentary on the little pictures which Messrs. A. F. and C. Lydon have provided. The Systematic...
London: T&AD Poyser, 2011. — 192 p. — ISBN 978-1-4081-3737-6. — Poyser Monographs. Scarce Migrant Birds of Britain and Ireland. How many are seen? How regularly do they come? Where do they occur? When are they likely to be spotted? The above questions are authoritatively answered by the author, Dr. J. T. R. Sharrock, honorary secretary of the British Ornithologists' Union's...
London: T&AD Poyser, 2010. — 276 p. — ISBN 978-1-4081-3844-1. — Poyser Monographs. The 83 species featured in this book, in date sequence of discovery, had not been recorded in Britain or Ireland before 1946. The original accounts of the sightings published in issues of British Birds* between 1947 and 1982 are now reprinted and supplemented with comment by Dr. Sharrock on...
London: T&AD Poyser, 2010. — 336 p. — ISBN 978-1-4081-3742-0. In a previous book, Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain and Ireland (/file/3752302/), the patterns of records of two dozen species were displayed and discussed at length. This present book now takes the birds rarer than those, and over 8,000 records of 221 species are illustrated in such a way that it is easy to see at a...
Bloomsbury Natural History, 2016. — 224 p. This book is a celebration of British raptors (including owls), with 200 stunning colour photographs. An authoritative text examines the biology and ecology of each species, following their fortunes as British breeding birds from historical times to the present day. This book serves as a showcase of these fabulous birds and highlights...
2nd Edition. — Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. — (Helm Wildlife Guides) — 224 p. — eBook ISBN 9781399410663. The definitive photographic guide to the amazing avifauna of Italy. From the Alps and Dolomites in the north to the coastlines of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy has a diverse range of natural habitats. The country is also a migration path across Europe and Africa, making it...
2nd Edition. — Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. — (Helm Wildlife Guides) — 224 p. — eBook ISBN 9781399410663. The definitive photographic guide to the amazing avifauna of Italy. From the Alps and Dolomites in the north to the coastlines of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy has a diverse range of natural habitats. The country is also a migration path across Europe and Africa, making it...
Calton, T & AD Poyser. 1986, 382 pages
This impressively comprehensive study and review of the birds in Scotland by Valerie Thom, editor of Scottish Birds and past-President of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club, may be said to follow on where the celebrated two volumes of The Birds of Scotland (1953), by Dr Baxter and Miss Rintoul, left off. It does more than that, however,...
New Naturalist/Collins, 2014. - 432 p.
Owls have always featured prominently in the mythology and folklore of a variety of cultures. These mysterious nocturnal creatures are thought to be symbols of wisdom, omens of death, and bringers of prophecy. In fact, owls are one of the oldest species of vertebrate animal, with fossils dating back 60 million years.
Owls have been a source...
Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press, 1983. — 127 p. — ISBN: 0-7137-1260-0. Owls nave aroused man's deepest feelings since the dawn of history and have been seen as everything from symbols of wisdom to omens of death. This book strips away the accretions of myth and mystery associated in our minds with these fascinating birds. Starting with a description of how owls are related to...
Dublin: O'Brien Press, 1994. — 222 p. — ISBN: 0-26278-390-5. Birdwatching can be fun for everyone, children and adults, mountaineers and strollers, stay-at-home types and outdoor enthusiasts. With this book you can get started — and go quite a long way. The first section orientates you and gives general information. The second section describes the birds you are most likely to...
London: Bloomsbury, 2007. — 512 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7136-6939-8. — Helm County Avifauna. The County Avifaunas are a growing series giving full details of the status and range of every species recorded in the county in question. Each title covers all species on the county list, with a detailed breakdown of rarity records, and each has introductory sections describing the county's...
Helm, 2024. — 240 p. Identify migratory birds with this book, containing detailed text on flight and contact calls, annotated sonograms and QR codes to the calls themselves. Every spring and autumn, millions of birds fly over us to en route to their summer or winter quarters, with these migratory flights occurring both day and night. A profusion of sounds fills the air, making...
OUP Oxford, 2008. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-0-1992-1751-9. "The History of British Birds" reviews our knowledge of avifaunal history over the last 15,000 years, setting it in its wider historical and European context. The authors, one an ornithologist the other an archaeologist, integrate a wealth of archaeological data to illuminate and enliven the story, indicating the extent to...
Рига: Зинатне, 1983. — 224 с. В книге обобщены данные о численности и территориальном размещении всех видов птиц, обнаруженных за 200 лет на территории Латвии. Книга представляет собой коллективный труд нескольких поколений орнитологов республики из различных научных учреждений. В ней отражены данные о видовом составе, встречаемости разных видов птиц на территории республики и о...
С-Пб.: Издательство А.Ф. Девриена, 1901. — 919 с. В настоящем издании представлена книга "Птицы Европы. Практическая орнитология с атласом европейских птиц", составители профессор Н. А. Холодковский, ассистент А. А. Силантьев. Книга является практическим руководством для начинающего по изучению орнитологии, включающим теоретические данные, а также подробные практические сведения и...
М. : КоЛибри, Азбука-Аттикус, 2021. — ISBN 978-5-389-20365-5. Птицы завораживают людей не только из-за мечты о полетах и нашей тяги к свободе и легкости, но и благодаря способности видеть то, что не улавливает глаз человека, своему яркому оперению, удивительному искусству пения и стремительным пируэтам в воздухе. Птицы с давних времен упоминаются в сказках, сагах и баснях,...
Комментарии