This handy & comprehensive guide is the essential companion to bird-watching for use in the field or at home. The guide features 500 species of birds found in Britain & also

Includes:: Europes resident birds & regular migrants & key vagrants from North America & Asia. Background information on bird structure & topography fieldcraft habitats bird orders & families is provided & each species entry

Includes:: at least one full-colour illustration beautifully presented by leading bird artists & a full yet concise species description plus other details e.g. habitat voice length wingspan & behavioural characteristics. A glossary of technical terms is included & there is an index of English & Latin names. The guide also

Includes:: 10 species comparison spreads to aid identification of harder to spot species & advice on the best times & places to view the more secretive or rarer birds.





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Ghana is one of the safest & most accessible countries in Western Africa & is rapidly becoming a top tourist destination. This dedicated country field guide uses illustrations from the acclaimed Birds of Western Africa which have been recomposed into a new set of plates with new text & maps specific to Ghana. The result is a compact & up-to-date guide to all the birds of Ghana. ...

Following the success of the first edition of A Field Guide To The birds Of Thailand a new edition has been compiled incorporating Thai plate names & index. Thailand continues to attract increasing numbers of birdwatchers on a regular basis who appreciate its vast diversity of bird life. This book with its meticulous colour artworks & maps for almost 1 000 species continues to be an invaluable guide for English & Thai-speaking bird enthusiasts who require details on the identification voice breeding status habitat & distribution of all the distinctive species & subspecies of the region. ...

This new field guide uses all of the plates from Birds of Western Africa with a concise authoritative text on facing pages to create a conveniently-sized lightweight field reference covering all 1285 species found in the region. The book also has an updated colour distribution map for each species conveniently placed on interleaved pages within the colour plates. A number of new images have been painted for this new field guide & several of the plates have been replaced. This is the first comprehensive field guide to cover the birds of this exciting region & will enable birders to identify any species found in any of the countries covered. Birds of Western Africa (Helm 2001) was the first single-volume guide to cover all species of this region which comprises all countries from Senegal & southern Mauritania east to Chad & the Central African Republic & south to Congo. ...

This field guide covers the avifauna of western North America using detailed artworks maps & text. Lighter than the original North American Bird Guide the book is designed to be suitable for regular field use & has a fully integrated format allowing quick & easy reference."" ...

The world has known about global warming since the late 1970s yet little has been done to halt it. The threat if we fail is nothing less than catastrophe
- the flooding of coastal communities the extinction of species & entry into a climate regime of which humans have no experience. Exploring the relationship between what we know & what we refuse to know Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on an urgent journey from the Arctic to Central America interviewing researchers environmentalists & traditional Inuits whose lives have already been dramatically altered by climate change.
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Field Notes From a Hidden City is set against the background of the austere grey & beautiful northeast Scottish city of Aberdeen. In it Esther Woolfson examines the elements
- geographic atmospheric & environmental
- which bring diverse life forms to live in close proximity in cities. Using the circumstances of her own life house garden & city she writes of the animals who live among us: the birds
- gulls starlings pigeons sparrows & others; the rats & squirrels; the spiders & the insects. In beautiful absorbing prose Woolfson describes the seasons the streets & the quiet places of her city over the course of a year which begins with the exceptional cold & snow of 2010. Influenced by her own long experience of corvids she considers prevailing attitudes towards the natural world urban & non-urban wildlife the values we place on the lives of individual species & the ways in which man & creature live together in cities.


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There's a bomb scare at Kingdom Hill racecourse where failed conman Tricksy Wilcox watches his dreams blown to kingdom come... At Cheltenham's glittering National Hunt Festival protocol is rocked as a love-struck owner falls madly in love with her jockey.. . There is passion
- & revenge
- at the glorious Kentucky Derby...and then ten other tantalizing stories to hold you enthralled from the starting gates to the finish. Award-winning Master of Crime Dick Francis tackles a new distance with thirteen nerve-tingling tales of politics passion horses & crime
- each one of them tied to a milestone event in the international racing calendar. The result is beyond question.


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In Glasgow a child goes missing taken from the front garden of his home
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A story of passion & dedication deserved of a place in great travel writing" -Writer Face.com the online social network for writers & literary agents. Susie Tarver has an inquisitive & adventurous mind & a great sense of humour which is how she came to find herself living in an old cottage in an isolated part of France in the first place. One day she noticed an overgrown & obviously ancient pathway alongside her garden. After some research Susie discovered that this track is part of the centuries old Pilgrims' path to Santiago de Compostela in Spain & has been walked by countless seekers & travellers since the Middle Ages. Eventually curiosity getting the better of her she decided to make the journey herself. On her own on foot & all the way to Santiago. Join Susie on her own pilgrimage as she explores the wonders & pitfalls of Mediaeval French & Spanish towns enjoys good food & generous hospitality--but endures more often the privations of life as a pilgrim--sobs into her sodden walking boots fends off the amorous advances of a nonagenarian farmer meets philosophers jokers & mind-numbing bores walks in rain & in sunshine & finds through it all the spirituality & peace inherent in this ancient path arriving six weeks later weary but exhilarated in Santiago to find that her life will never be the same again. Evocatively illustrated throughout by David Dry RIBA."" ...