Product Description: The only comprehensive, full-color, pocket-sized guide to significant British and Northern European birds. This completely new edition of the best pocket-sized bird guide around uses both photography and original artwork to provide a practical and attractive identification guide...read more
9780007178605 | Marshall Pickering, March 1, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The only comprehensive, full-color, pocket-sized guide to significant British and Northern European birds.
9780007113811 | Trafalgar Square, April 1, 2001, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: This new edition incorporates both photography and artwork to provide a really practical identification guide.
9780004722627 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, September 1, 1999, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: This volume provides easily-used identification details linked to photographs.
Product Description: This is a bird-identification guide with a difference. Instead of using colour plates of paintings to identify the species, it features photographs, covering all 840 bird species that live or visit the Australian continent. Following a brief introduction about bird biology, habitats and bird families, the main part of the book comprises species entries...read more
9781876334789 | New Holland Pub Pty Ltd, March 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This is a bird-identification guide with a difference.
Product Description: This field guide identifies, describes and illustrates over 430 species, covering almost all of the birds likely to be encountered in the whole of Britain and Europe. It provides details of plumage and distinctive features, behaviour, songs and calls, and breeding habits.
9781853682636 | New Holland Pub, February 1, 2004, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: This field guide identifies, describes and illustrates over 430 species, covering almost all of the birds likely to be encountered in the whole of Britain and Europe.
9781843301301, titled "Photographic Field Guide Birds of Britain & Europe" | New Holland Books, March 1, 2003, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This comprehensive guide identifies, describes and illustrates over 430 bird species likely to be encountered in Britain and Europe.
9780735102019 | Replica Books, August 1, 2002, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Looks at deserts around the world, describes desert conditions, and examines the wildlife found in desert environments
9780816029020 | Facts on File, September 1, 1993, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Looks at deserts around the world, describes desert conditions, and examines the wildlife found in desert environments
Product Description: Aimed at both the general reader and amateur naturalist, this Green Guide offers a wealth of information on observing and identifying 150 of the most commonly encountered bird species in Britain and Europe. Beautifully illustrated with a full color painting, each bird has a detailed description of its plumage, behavior, calls and songs, and habitat...read more
9781859749234 | New Holland Pub Ltd, September 1, 2001, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Aimed at both the general reader and amateur naturalist, this Green Guide offers a wealth of information on observing and identifying 150 of the most commonly encountered bird species in Britain and Europe.
Product Description: Eric Hosking, the bird photographer, started taking photographs of birds in the late 1920s, when he did not have the convenience of a light 35mm SLR, but had to lug a 5" plate camera to the top of trees to take his pictures. The photograph that he took over the next 70 years until his death in 1991, stand as some of the classic bird photographs of this century...read more
9780002199759 | Harpercollins College Div, May 1, 1994, cover price $42.60 | About this edition: Eric Hosking, the bird photographer, started taking photographs of birds in the late 1920s, when he did not have the convenience of a light 35mm SLR, but had to lug a 5" plate camera to the top of trees to take his pictures.
9781878137234 | Millbrook Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $17.90 | About this edition: Describes how animals transmit messages and discusses what they communicate or avoid communicating
Describes how animal senses work--not just sight, taste, feeling, hearing, and smell, but also special ways of sensing vibrations, electric currents, and changes in the weather
9781878137210 | Millbrook Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $17.90 | About this edition: Describes how animal senses work--not just sight, taste, feeling, hearing, and smell, but also special ways of sensing vibrations, electric currents, and changes in the weather
9781878137203 | Millbrook Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $17.90 | About this edition: Discusses how animals protect their eggs and young, and teach the members of the next generation what they need to know
9781878137227 | Millbrook Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $17.90 | About this edition: Describes how different kinds of animals are adapted to fly, jump, climb, swim, and run
Discusses the migratory instincts of animals, fish, and insects in regard to where and when they migrate, as well as their natural ability to navigate.
9781878137074 | Millbrook Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $17.90 | About this edition: Discusses the migratory instincts of animals, fish, and insects in regard to where and when they migrate, as well as their natural ability to navigate.
Discusses the hunting skills of wild land and sea animals, such as the polar bear, tiger, hunting dog, heron, tawny owl, snake, chameleon, whale, leopard seal, piranha, dragonfly, and wasp
9781878137043 | Millbrook Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $17.90 | About this edition: Discusses the hunting skills of such land and sea animals as monkfish, dragonflies, herons, wood wasps, killer whales, and tigers.
9781878137050 | Millbrook Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $17.90 | About this edition: Describes how animals, fish, and insects build their homes and keep them safe from predators and the forces of nature
Explains how animals team up and help one another with obtaining food and protecting their territories and their young from enemies, and how humans and other animals get help from various creatures
9781878137067 | Millbrook Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $17.90 | About this edition: Explains how animals team up and help one another with obtaining food and protecting their territories and their young from enemies, and how humans and other animals get help from various creatures
9780831716752 | Gallery Books, July 1, 1990, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: Describes the habitat, season, physical characteristics, and location of over forty types of wild flowers
Product Description: A comparison of the scenery, underlying physical structure and ecology of the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, describing the mammals and birds found in each region and explaining the various evolutionary developments that have allowed them to adapt their lives to ensure survival in such environments...read more
9780720718386 | Stephen Greene Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A comparison of the scenery, underlying physical structure and ecology of the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, describing the mammals and birds found in each region and explaining the various evolutionary developments that have allowed them to adapt their lives to ensure survival in such environments.
Product Description: This survey of the owl world examines the natural history of the owl, with notes on its evolution, taxonomy, distribution, habitats, anatomy, behaviour and breeding patterns. It includes owls from all over the world, ranging in size from the tiny Pygmy Owl to the majestic Eagle Owl - all illustrated by Eric Hosking's photographs which represents the culmination of a lifetime's observation of owls...read more
9780720716016 | Michael Joseph, October 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This survey of the owl world examines the natural history of the owl, with notes on its evolution, taxonomy, distribution, habitats, anatomy, behaviour and breeding patterns.