National Geographic Guide to the Birds of North America: (National Geographic Field Guide To Birds Of North America)

Explores the life of birds. From the secrets of migration to their complicated family lives, their differing habitats and survival techniques to the secrets of flight, this work offers an account of how birds live, why they matter, and whether they really are dinosaurs.

Portable and practical, this guide is suitable for beginners and as a quick reference for a more advanced spotter of birds.

Rooks and jackdaws are both members of the same bird family. To ornithologists the group is known as the corvids, to the layperson they are 'crows'. This is a prose poem in a tradition of English pastoral writing. It is also a celebration of the Norfolk countryside, of its oceanic flatness, its immense skies and of the human intimacies.

Esther Woolfson has been fascinated by corvids, since her daughter rescued a fledgling rook sixteen years ago. That rook - named Chicken - has lived with the family ever since. This book presents an account of her experiences, which gives insights into the closeness human beings can achieve with wild creatures.

A guide to identification of birds. It covers commonly seen species and includes color-coded maps that highlight resident and migratory distributions. It is suitable for bird enthusiasts.

A complete photoguide to all the birds of Britain from the best nature publisher in the UK

Takes reader on a journey that tells them about the extraordinary lives of birds - from conception and egg, through territory and song, to migration and fully fledged breeder.

This title is a comprehensive, full-colour, pocket-sized guide to significant British and Northern European birds.

Describing what he saw, when he was watching various species of birds, the author reveals where he saw it, who he was with, what it made him think and feel - the little story of each birdwatching episode, be it goldfinches on his garden feeder, or the rescue of a rare albatross on a Somerset beach.

An invaluable pocket-sized guide to the 100 popular bird species that you are most likely to find in your town, garden or park. It also contains expert practical advice on encouraging birds to your garden.