An illustrated study of animal behaviour, exploring the key groups of animals that inhabit this planet and their survival strategies. It helps you learn how fish can be the most caring of parents, how cuttlefish seduce with colour, how penguin chicks learn the hard way and how monkeys and apes teach their young to use tools.

A personal view of the natural world

The Atlantic salmon is an extraordinary and mysterious fish. This book reveals the riverine and marine worlds from the salmon's point of view. It explores the salmon's life cycle and places the fish in its evolutionary context - one that is much closer to man's than we might imagine.

Features identification and details on lifestyle and habitat for 216 species of bird commonly found in Britain, and a further 117 rarer species whose irregular visits add excitement to the birdwatcher's year.

Join zoologist Mark Carwardine and Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as they follow in their great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth.

Storm petrels fly from a midnight sea in June to their nesting holes in a two-thousand-year-old stone tower; a million starlings gather to roost from all points across a freezing winter sky; and migrant redstarts, only weeks out of their nest, set off over alien seas on their way to Africa. This book records a lifetime of looking at birds.

Looks at why the numbers of bird species have fallen and what efforts are being made to encourage their recoveries. This title also examines why birds matter in the first place and considers the role of the birdwatcher - one species that is certainly not in decline.

Since its inception in 1996, Buiug Cat Diary has grown steadily in popularity, its profile rising with each new series so that it now attracts audiences of seven million. In autumn 2008, BCD was broadcast live for the first time in what has been described as the BBC Natural History Unit's most ambitious outside broadcast ever.

The companion volume to the best-selling The Bedside Book of Birds (20,000 copies in hardback) is as beautifully produced as its predecessor and will appeal to wildlife enthusiasts the world over.

Gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orang-utans are only a hair's breadth away from us in evolutionary terms; our DNA differs by just a few per cent. This work reveals the Great Apes in detail: where they live, how they live and the challenges they face.

With collective nouns for animal groups, this title tells you what to call a group of zebras, chickens, parrots, spiders, tigers or penguins, and lets you know the difference between a school and a shoal of fish as well as why groups of swans are known as a lamentation, a bank and a wedge.

On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien met a four-day-old baby barn owl - a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild.

A compact, informative and beautifully illustrated RSPB guide to 174 of the most common birds found in Britain. It features concise descriptions of each bird's main characteristics, including plumage, population, habitat, voice and confusion species. This guide features a species per page, including a colour distribution map.

Presents the natural and cultural history of the owl, one of nature's most admired, yet most mysterious birds. This book explores many examples of owls in art, film, literature and popular culture.

From the Sandwich Tern to the Short-toed Eagle, this title helps to discover over 320 species of bird found in the UK and Europe. It includes photographs and notes on distinguishing features that help you identify different species of bird in the field. It contains maps that show you regions where each species can be found at what time of year.

Explores the life of birds, all around the globe. This title offers an account from the secrets of migration to their complicated family lives, their differing habitats and survival techniques to the secrets of flight, how birds live, why they matter, and whether they really are dinosaurs.

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.

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.

The only comprehensive, full-colour, pocket-sized guide to significant British and Northern European birds.

A comprehensive and heavily illustrated guide to every species of British wildlife, this book is the definitive photographic reference guide for nature enthusiasts.