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Stunningly illustrated and simple to use, this is the updated edition of the popular Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland published in association with the Wildlife Trusts.
A new edition of a classic title. When you browse the titles in your local bookshop, you can almost hear the shelves groaning under the weight of a plethora of cookery titles. We seem to love cookery books and cooking for ourselves, but how often have you thought about putting your culinary skills towards making dinner for some rather different guests? Birds are the life and soul of any garden - whatever its size or location - and one thing is guaranteed: if food is on offer, the birds will come. Cooking For Birds brings you some of the most popular and successful bird food recipes there are, combined with a range of useful cookery tips and helpful hints on what to feed and when. Whether it's a treat for the tits, a nibble for the Nuthatch or a bellyful for the Blackbird, there is plenty here to entice a variety of visitors to your bird-table or bird feeders.
One of the greatest pleasures of having a garden is being able to identify the great number of different bird species that may feed, bathe and nest there, or simply fly over, particularly during migration. This bestseller combines full identification and behavioural features of over 70 common garden bird species with detailed information on attracting birds to your garden. The clear illustrations and text are presented in an easy-to-use format and provide practical bird identification information to the novice birdwatcher. A concise introduction covers ideal garden habitats, binoculars, bird behaviour and feeding birds. Stunningly illustrated, yet simple to use, The Complete Garden Bird Book will ensure that you get the maximum pleasure from your garden whatever its size or location.
Bird Box contains everything the garden bird lover needs to enjoy more birds in the garden. The book includes profiles of the 70 most common birds, the feeder will keep them happy through the winter, and the stickers will help them avoid your windows. And, if you empty the box and put out the hole, you'll even have tits sheltering in it on cold nights!
Simple and successful bird food recipes with helpful hints on exactly what to feed birds when.
Containing over 280 species that are regularly seen in Britain and Ireland, this book features informative text and clear, colour illustrations for easy identification.
One of the greatest pleasures of having a garden is to be able to observe and identify the great number of animal species which may feed, bathe and reside there, or simply fly over or pass through. This book combines full identification and behavioural features of over 250 common species, including birds, mammals, amphibians, wasps and bees, beetles and spiders, insects and invertebrates. Stunningly illustrated, yet simple to use, The Complete Garden Widlife Book will ensure that you get the maximum pleasure from your garden whatever its size or location.
Lavishly illustrated throughout with photographs, 'Boas and Pythons of the World' provides comprehensive and authoritative information in a lively and accessible format - a fitting celebration of one of the most fascinating yet little-known groups in the reptile world.
This journey through the world of birdwatchers is “a wonderful book. . . . fascinating, often hilarious anecdotes and information” (Daily Mail, Critic’s Choice). Scholarly, authoritative, and above all supremely readable, Stephen Moss’s book is the first to trace the fascinating history of how and why people have watched birds for pleasure, from the beginnings with Gilbert White in the eighteenth century through World War II POWs watching birds from inside their prison camp and all the way to today’s “twitchers” with their bleeping pagers, driving hundreds of miles for a rare bird. “Proves that birdwatchers can be as instructive to watch as birds.” —Sunday Times “Thorou...