George: A Magpie Memoir by Frieda Hughes
$40.00 NZD
Category: Birds
'He was a hectic, unprincipled bird, but it was impossible not to love him' ... A memoir of love, obsession and feathers. "Then, just in time, before I swung the spade again, I saw, right by the blade and camouflaged by the leaves on the ground, a magpie chick. It squatted belligerently, peering up at ...Show more
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Birds
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific exploration of owls, the most elusive group of birds, and an investigation into why these remarkable and yet mysterious animals exert such a hold on human imagination.For centuries, owls have capti ...Show more
Birdsong in a Time of Silence by Steven Lovatt
$30.00 NZD
Category: Birds
A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature'At this time of year, blackbirds never simply fly- instead, like reluctantly retired officers, they're always "on manoeuvres", and it's easy to see from their constant agitation that for them every flower bed is a bunker, ...Show more
The Book of the Barn Owl by Sally Coulthard
$33.00 NZD
Category: Birds
Few of us know what goes on after dark, underneath the moon. Sally Coulthard shines a light on the Barn Owl, one of the most mesmerising and elusive icons of the countryside. With its heart-shaped face and silent, graceful flight, the Barn Owl regularly tops the nation's list of favourite birds. A brie ...Show more
Bird by DK
$65.00 NZD
Category: Birds
Global in scope, this encyclopedia features a photographic catalogue of more than 1,270 bird species, making it a must-have for every avian enthusiastThe diversity and drama of the bird world is brought to breathtaking life in an encyclopedic new editionThis photographic guide to every bird order and fa ...Show more
Bird Talk: An exploration of Avian Communication by Barbara Ballentine, Jordan Hyman
$50.00 NZD
Category: Birds
Bird Talk delves into new scientific developments to reveal the complexities of how birds make, learn, and use sound in a bewildering array of songs and calls. The beauty of birdsong is one of the joys of nature, and this book reveals how songs are learned and performed, why the quality of a male’s repe ...Show more
Shearwater: A Bird, an Ocean, and a Long Way Home by Roger Morgan-Grenville
$33.00 NZD
Category: Birds
A very personal mix of memoir and natural history from the author of Liquid Gold. Ten weeks into its life, a Manx shearwater chick will emerge from its burrow and fly 8,000 miles from the west coast of the British Isles to the South Atlantic. It will be unlikely to touch land again for four years. Part ...Show more
Nextinction by Ralph Steadman; Ceri Levy
$53.00 NZD
Category: Birds
The Boids are back in town ... The follow-up to the award-winning EXTINCT BOIDS, this book features more of the incredible art of cartoonist Ralph Steadman. This time the focus is not on the birds that are gone, but the ones that there's still time to save. These are the 192 Critically Endangered bi ...Show more
Far from Land - The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds by Michael Brooke; Bruce Pearson (Illustrator)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Birds
The lives and activities of seabirds as you've never seen them before Seabirds evoke the spirit of the earth's wildest places. They spend large portions of their lives at sea, often far from land, and nest on remote islands that humans rarely visit. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated and miniaturized ...Show more
How Birds Behave: Interpreting What They Do and Why by Wenfei Tong
$48.00 NZD
Category: Birds
Birds are intelligent, sociable creatures that exhibit a wide array of behaviours — from mobbing and mimicking to mating and joint nesting. Why do they behave as they do? Bringing to light the remarkable actions of birds through examples from species around the world, How Birds Behave presents engaging ...Show more
A Shadow Above - The Fall and Rise of the Raven by Joe Shute
$26.00 NZD
Category: Birds
A Shadow Above chronicles the return of the raven and the people who have made that comeback possible. For centuries, the raven Corvus Corax has stalked us in life and in death. Excavations of Bronze Age settlements in Britain have revealed raven bones mingled with human remains. The Viking and Norman ...Show more
Homing - On Pigeons, Dwellings and Why We Return by Jon Day
$28.00 NZD
Category: Birds
A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 'Rich and joyous ...The book's quiet optimism about our ability to change, and to learn to love small things passionately, will stay with me for a long time' Helen Macdonald 'Big-hearted and quietly gripping' Guar ...Show more