Princeton University Press, 2022. — 320 p. Gulls occupy a particularly important place in the world of birds. But because they are notoriously difficult to identify, they have been relatively neglected in the ornithological literature. Gulls of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East offers the most up-to-date guide for gull identification in Europe and beyond. With a direct...
Adventure Publications, 2019. — 82 p. A murder of crows, a charm of goldfinch, a huddle of penguins—groupings of birds are more than just a “flock.” Collective nouns for specific types of birds range from fascinating to funny, and this adorable book is your guide to the best of them. Discover the surprising number of different terms, and learn their true meanings—as well as the...
American Geophysical Union, 1968. — 263 p. The birds of Antarctica, and particularly the penguins, have aroused man's interest and his scientific curiosity ever since he first learned of their existence less than two centuries ago. Yet scientific study of them has until recently been only a minor objective of the various expeditions that have visited this most recently discovered...
London: T&AD Poyser, 2010. — 513 p. — (Poyser Monographs). — ISBN 978-1-4081-3336-1. The Whooper Swan has the most extensive range of all the world's seven swan species, and to people in many nations it is the archetypical swan species. The species is also strongly migratory, and the annual appearances of bulging" flocks of these beautiful white birds herald seasonal change and...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. — 217 p. From the easy-to-spot, year-round tufted duck to the summer visitor and cackling fulmar, get ready to find out about 137 different birds. There are so many feathered friends to meet in this children's spotter's field guide, published in collaboration with the RSPB, the largest wildlife conservation charity in Europe. You will learn where to...
St. Martin's Press, 2004. — 160 p. Some of the most spectacular and awe-inspiring predators on the planet, the raptors, or birds of prey have captivated us for centuries. This new Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press offers a fascinating look at these incredible birds. - Covers all raptors, including hawks, eagles, vultures, falcons, and owls - Hunting strategies, migration,...
London: T&AD Poyser, 2011. — 311 p. — ISBN 978-1-4081-5234-8. — Poyser Monographs. Returning to its breeding sites in the spring after a winter spent far out at sea, the Kittiwake is a familiar sight around the coasts of Britain and Europe. A pale, medium-sized gull with a 'gentle' expression and bright yellow bill, the Kittiwake has been the subject of behavioural research...
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2004. — 863 p. — ISBN 84-87334-69-5. This volume was published in 2004. It has an introductory essay "Ornithological Nomenclature" by Richard Banks. Groups covered in this volume are as follows: Cotingidae (Cotingas) Pipridae (Manakins) Tyrannidae (Tyrant-flycatchers) Acanthisittidae (New Zealand wrens) Atrichornithidae (Scrub-birds) Menuridae...
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 1992. — 692 p. — ISBN 84-87334-10-5. The study of birds represents a very special contribution to our appreciation of the world around us. Birds are better researched than any other group of animals or plants. They hold a special place within a large number of cultures throughout the world. They also act as biological indicators, showing us the...
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2013. — 812 p. — ISBN 978-84-96553-88-0. This volume was published in July 2013. It includes a comprehensive introduction by Jon Fjeldså on changes in bird macrosystematics and a foreword on the history of BirdLife International. It covers 84 new species published more recently than their corresponding HBW volumes, including 15 scientific descriptions...
London: Country Life, 1964. — 424 p. 32 full page plates after paintings by J. C. Harrison - 16 are in full color, 21 distribution maps and diagrams. Publisher's original gray cloth with red cloth title/author panels lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, top page edge in red. The scarce original printing of Delacour's classic study with superb color plates.
Helm: 2005. — 320 p. Raptors of the World is the definitive handbook to this most popular group of birds. This new field guide uses all of the illustration plates from Raptors of the World, with a concise, revised text on facing pages, to create a conveniently-sized, lightweight field reference covering all 340 raptor species. Several of the plates have been reworked and...
London: T & AD Poyser Monographs, 2011. — 321 p. — ISBN: (print) 978-0-7136-8865-8, ISBN: (e-pub) 978-1-4081-3732-1 ISBN: (e-PDF) 978-1-4081-3731-4. The impacts of global warming are of concern to all of us. The potential responses of birds to climate change have come increasingly to the fore, and are of particular interest to the ornithological community. Are birds sensitive...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 268 p. — ISBN-13 978-0198500643 Grebes are unusual and fascinating birds, with spectacular courtship behavior and floating nests which enable them to spend their entire lives in water. In Grebes, Fjeldsa provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of their origin and evolution, biology, and how they have adapted to exploit their environment,...
Helm, 2016. — 544 p. Raptors are notoriously hard to identify, even if seen well, and represent perhaps the ultimate ID challenge for birders. This book is the ultimate flight-identification guide for the raptors of the Western Palaearctic, covering Europe, North Africa, the Middle East (including Arabia) to Central Asia. It provides identification information for all 60...
Helm, 2016. — 544 p. Raptors are notoriously hard to identify, even if seen well, and represent perhaps the ultimate ID challenge for birders. This book is the ultimate flight-identification guide for the raptors of the Western Palaearctic, covering Europe, North Africa, the Middle East (including Arabia) to Central Asia. It provides identification information for all 60...
Helm, 2016. — 544 p. Raptors are notoriously hard to identify, even if seen well, and represent perhaps the ultimate ID challenge for birders. This book is the ultimate flight-identification guide for the raptors of the Western Palaearctic, covering Europe, North Africa, the Middle East (including Arabia) to Central Asia. It provides identification information for all 60...
Blair, 2025. — 228 p. — ISBN-13 978-1958888476 The story of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from Central Park Zoo and captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of followers around the world, with 32 pages of stunning color photographs. This is a parable of freedom, wildness, and our urban ecosystems. Flaco has been dubbed “the world’s most famous bird.” From...
Second Edition. — New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1967. — 529 p. Since the disappearance of the last dodo some 280 years ago, over 130 species and subspecies of birds have completely disappeared or have become seriously threatened with extinction. The passenger pigeon, Labrador duck, great auk, the nearly extinct ivory-billed woodpecker and whooping crane are but a few of...
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1964. — 493 p. Photographically-illustrated compilation of definitive data about the various birds of prey, their history, environment, characteristics, and habits
Oxford University Press, 1988. — 360 p. — ISBN-13 978-0198571933 This is the first available reference to describe and document all known species of quails, partridges, and francolins. A companion volume to The Pheasants of the World, this text covers nearly three times as many species, and includes many more color plates, some of which represent species that have never before...
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1983. — 274 p. — ISBN: 0-253-11255-9. Cranes are a group of birds that can lift the human spirit as few other wild animals can do; their great size, marvelous soaring abilities, humanoid traits such as "dancing," and penetrating voices, all strike deep into the human psyche and forcefully remind us of the beauty and mystery of the...
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981. — 519 p. — ISBN13: 978-0803225534. The shorebirds of the world constitute one of the largest groups of nonpasserine birds, yet no comprehensive summary of them has been written for almost a century. In this book, intended as a companion to his earlier volume on the waterfowl family Anatidae, Paul Johnsgard deals exhaustively with the...
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2000. — 230 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-56098-388-4. Of all birdgroups, none is more closely associated with the world's tropical forests than trogons and quetzals. With shimmering golden-green feathers and long ornamental tail coverts, Central America's resplendent quetzal often has been called the world's most beautiful bird. Other New World as...
London: T&AD Poyser, 2007. — 333 p. — (Poyser Monographs). — ISBN 978-0-7136-6562-8. With their curious feeding behaviour, peculiar elongated body, gregarious social lives and exotic pink plumage, flamingos are among the most familiar and popular of all the world's birds. They have inspired artists, poets and amateur naturalists for centuries, but until 50 years ago very little...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 433 p. — ISBN 0198610084 Ducks, Geese and Swans begins with eight chapters giving an overview of the family, their taxonomy and evolution, feeding ecology, breeding strategies, social behaviour, movements and migrations, population dynamics, and conservation and management, followed by accounts of 165 species, written by a team of expert...
London: T&AD Poyser, 2010. — 175 p. — (Poyser Monographs). — ISBN 978-1-4081-3757-4. Dr. Janet Kear, Assistant Director of the Wildfowl Trust and Curator of its Martin Mere Reserve, and Professor Andrew Berger of the University of Hawaii, have written a timely and absorbing account of the recent history of the Hawaiian Goose, or Nene, its descent to near extinction, its...
2ха Edition. — Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2008. — 528 p. This revised second edition (first published 1999) covers the identification of owls of the world. The plumages of many species are cryptic and difficult to separate by plumage alone. This problem is compounded by the different morphs that many adopt. This book fully describes every known species and subspecies of owl,...
Chronicle Books, 2025. — 200 p. — ISBN-13 978-1797232751 Professional birding amateur and national bestselling author Matt Kracht has had it with these goddamn birds. His new book is a warning, a field guide to help you identify and stay away from the absolute worst birds ever to plague planet Earth. Featuring an all-new scientific scale devised by the author that proves how...
London: T&AD Poyser, 2005. — 353 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7136-7006-6. — Poyser Monographs. This book looks at the world's naturalised (successfully introduced) species of bird. Many species have been introduced to countries outside their natural range by people, either deliberately or accidentally, with varied consequences for both those species themselves and the native fauna of...
Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2019. — 128 p. — ISBN10: 1472956036, 13 978-1472956033. A hunting Osprey is one of the great sights of the natural world, and its fishing prowess is admired and revered around the globe. However, its penchant for taking fish from trout ponds resulted in a drastic decline in the UK with the species wiped out by human persecution and habitat loss. Thanks to...
T & AD Poyser, 2024. — 304 p. A highly readable Poyser monograph on one of the most widespread raptors. The Osprey is a large, fish-eating bird of prey. Distinctively marked in deep brown and white, with a piercing yellow eye and powerful hooked bill, the Osprey snatches its prey in spectacular swoops above lakes and wetlands around the world – it is one of the most widespread...
T & AD Poyser, 2024. — 304 p. A highly readable Poyser monograph on one of the most widespread raptors. The Osprey is a large, fish-eating bird of prey. Distinctively marked in deep brown and white, with a piercing yellow eye and powerful hooked bill, the Osprey snatches its prey in spectacular swoops above lakes and wetlands around the world – it is one of the most widespread...
Proexport, 2011. — 93 p. Proexport Colombia is proud to present this guide to the birdwatching sites of Colombia. The potential for the development of nature tourism is enormous thanks to the huge diversity of fauna and flora including the largest country lists for birds and amphibians. Colombia is a paradise for bird watchers with an immeasurable number of habitats to visit...
London: T&AD Poyser, 2010. — 368 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4081-3859-5. — Poyser Monographs. In range, Wild Geese covers the geese of North America, Europe and Asia, and thus the world species except for the Hawaiian Goose or Ne-Ne. The plan of the book is similar to the author's Ducks of Britain and Europe but distribution, status and migration rightly assume a more extensive role in...
Princeton University Press, 1995. — 176 p. Terns are elegant sea and marshland birds that live throughout the world. In Europe and North America a total of twenty-three species is represented, all of which are dealt with in this book. The variations among the species and their subspecies is great, and identification is therefore often highly problematic. Terns are long-distance...
Ten Speed Press, 2020. — 144 p. — ISBN: 0399581855 Discover the world's birds, their homes, and their eggs in this gorgeously illustrated, entertaining, and educational guide. Birds are some of the world's most beautiful and interesting creatures, and their nests and eggs are no exception, displaying a stunning diversity of shapes, sizes, functions, and materials. Did you know...
Ten Speed Press, 2020 — 144 p. — ISBN: 0399581855 Discover the world's birds, their homes, and their eggs in this gorgeously illustrated, entertaining, and educational guide. Birds are some of the world's most beautiful and interesting creatures, and their nests and eggs are no exception, displaying a stunning diversity of shapes, sizes, functions, and materials. Did you know...
T & AD Poyser, 2019. — 384 p. — (Poyser Monographs). — ISBN: 978-1-4729-0066-1. The Eagle Owl is one of the largest owls in the world, and is considered the most eclectic in terms of habitat, nest site and diet. An undisputed top predator, it can prey on a range of mammals up to the size of a fox, and almost every species of bird, reptile, amphibian and fish, as well as a wide...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. — 220 p. Ospreys are one of the few bird species that are found throughout the world. From forests in Hokkaido to rivers in Oregon and islands off Australia, Ospreys steal the show as nature lovers easily watch them build their massive nests and tend to their young. The fact that the Osprey is one of the few large birds that can hover adds to...
London: T&AD Poyser, 2005. — 288 p. — ISBN 0-7136-6563-7. — Poyser Monographs. This book is the first monograph on one of the most beautiful and admired birds in the world. The Gyrfalcon is the world's largest and most powerful falcon — a truly awe-inspiring bird which inhabits the ferociously inhospitable Arctic taiga, from Greenland and Iceland right across Siberia and...
Pelagic Publishing, 2016. — 272 p. The Lapwing once had many regional names; the Loon has a British-American identity crisis and the respectable-sounding Apostlebird is often called a Lousy Jack. Why do bird names, both common and scientific, change over time and why do they vary so much between different parts of the English-speaking world? Wandering through the scientific and...
Pelagic Publishing, 2016. — 272 p. The Lapwing once had many regional names; the Loon has a British-American identity crisis and the respectable-sounding Apostlebird is often called a Lousy Jack. Why do bird names, both common and scientific, change over time and why do they vary so much between different parts of the English-speaking world? Wandering through the scientific and...
London: Blanford Press, 1964. — 260 p. Man has always found interest and pleasure in domestic pets. Birds have proved an especial source of delight to many people. As long ago as 284 b.c., Kallixenus describes in the Chronicles of Alexandria how parrots were carried in processions, and Alexander the Great had the distinction of being the first to import Indian Ring-necked...
Springer, 2018. — 530 p. For over 40 years no other book has been edited covering most of the topics involved on birds of prey ecology and conservation. This book will provide the state-of-the-art on most of the topics involved in the ecology and conservation of birds of prey. With chapters authored by the most recognized and prestigious researchers on each of the fields, this...
Jena: Verlag von Gustav fischer, 1904. — P. 80-288. Die nachfolgende Arbeit giebt eine Uebersicht der Vögel des nördlichen Eismeeres und seiner Inseln. Sie kann als erster Versuch in der ornithologischen Litteratur bezeichnet werden, die Vogelfauna eines Gebietes, welches in seiner ungeheuren räumlichen Ausdehnung bis jetzt nur eine lückenhafte Erforschung gefunden hat,...
London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018. — 624 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4729-3736-0. This unique and spectacular handbook is the most complete and comprehensive photographic guide to the passerines of the Western Palearctic. Written by two of the world's most respected ornithologists, Hadoram Shirihai and Lars Svensson. Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds, Volume 2 contains the most...
London: Helm, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018. — 650 p. — ISBN: 1472937570, 9781472937575. This unique and spectacular handbook is the most complete and comprehensive photographic guide to the passerines of the Western Palearctic. Written by two of the world's most respected ornithologists, Hadoram Shirihai and Lars Svensson. Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds, Volume 1...
London: T&AD Poyser, 2007. — 235 p. — (Poyser Monographs). — ISBN 978-0-7136-6854-4. With its striking green-black and white plumage and distinctive pee-wit call, the Lapwing is one of Britain's best-known birds. Lapwings depend on agricultural land to breed and are considered a barometer of the health of this habitat; the population has crashed over recent decades, partly due...
London: T&AD Poyser, 1992. — 145 p. — (Poyser Monographs). — ISBN 978-1-4081-3781-9. Tree Sparrows are widely distributed throughout most of Europe and Asia, and have been introduced in many other parts of the world. This book describes the species' origins and early spread, plus a speculative section on the evolution of the present distribution. The bulk of the book discusses...
London: T&A D Poyser, 2010. — 347 p. — (Poyser Monographs). — ISBN 978-1-4081-3823-6. Denis Summers-Smith first took up the study of the House Sparrow in 1947, thinking that the difficulties of travel in post-war Britain would best suit the study of a species always close at hand. The humble House Sparrow, common everywhere, was surprisingly poorly researched and his work soon...
Princeton University Press, 2006. — 240 p. — ISBN-13 : 978-0691126722 Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia is a quick-reference field guide to the sandpipers, plovers, stints, and other shorebirds found on these continents. The exhaustive and superbly detailed color plates show the birds at rest and in flight, and in every plumage variant likely to be encountered....
University of Texas Press, 2005. — 254 p. From Belize to Brazil, the forests of the American neotropics are home to an astonishing array of birds—over 3,700 different species, or nearly 40 percent of all the birds on earth. Because of this overwhelming abundance, birders come from all over the world to try to catch glimpses of species that can be found nowhere else, such as...
University of Texas Press, 2005. — 254 p. From Belize to Brazil, the forests of the American neotropics are home to an astonishing array of birds—over 3,700 different species, or nearly 40 percent of all the birds on earth. Because of this overwhelming abundance, birders come from all over the world to try to catch glimpses of species that can be found nowhere else, such as...
T & AD Poyser, 2020. — 304 p. Soaring majestically on thermals with broad wings raised, the Common Buzzard is a familiar sight for many people across Eurasia. In fact, thanks to a remarkable ability to adapt to local conditions, it is now one of the most abundant hawks in the world. The Common Buzzard can exploit a variety of nest sites, and has an eclectic diet that ranges...
T & AD Poyser, 2020. — 304 p. Soaring majestically on thermals with broad wings raised, the Common Buzzard is a familiar sight for many people across Eurasia. In fact, thanks to a remarkable ability to adapt to local conditions, it is now one of the most abundant hawks in the world. The Common Buzzard can exploit a variety of nest sites, and has an eclectic diet that ranges...
М.: Московский университет, 1975. — 182 с. В книге дан полный обзор авифауны южной горной цепи Палеарктики от Атласских и Пиренейских гор до Тибета и Гималаев. Для каждого вида птиц приведены сведения о распространении, размножении, сезонных перемещениях и географической изменчивости. Автором произведено орнитогеографическое деление гор южной Палеарктики, при которос обособлены...
Одесса: Типография бывш. А. Шульце, 1907. — 144 с. Настоящая работа является результатом девятилетних наблюдений над жизнью птиц Мариупольского уезда Екатеринославской губернии. В книге есть Общая часть, которая посвящена периодическим изменениям в жизни птиц Мариупольского уезда, и Специальная часть, в которой находятся повидовые очерки.
М.: Издательство Московского общества испытателей природы, 1951. — 190 с. В наши годы успехов авиации выдающихся летчиков нередко сравнивают с соколами. В соколах по справедливости видят птиц, дающих пример замечательного мастерства полета. Это свойство соколов давно уже привлекло внимание человека, и с незапамятных времен охотник, еще не имевший в руках огнестрельного оружия,...
М.: Издательство Московского общества испытателей природы, 1951. — 190 с.
В наши годы успехов авиации выдающихся летчиков нередко сравнивают с соколами. В соколах по справедливости видят птиц, дающих пример замечательного мастерства полета.
Это свойство соколов давно уже привлекло внимание человека, и с незапамятных времен охотник, еще не имевший в руках огнестрельного оружия,...
Черкаси, 1948. — 117 с. Книга посвящена птицам окресностей города Черкассы. Автор собирал материал более 6 лет. Данная работа представляет интерес для орнитологов и исследователей истории науки.
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