Clifford B. Frith (Author), Dawn W. Frith (Author). Oxford University Press, 2004. 554 p. ISBN-10: 0198548443, ISBN-13: 978-0198548447. The bowerbirds are unique in the avian world in that the males build elaborate 'bowers': structures of sticks, grasses or other plant stems on or close to the ground, often incorporating objects such as colorful fruits, flowers, feathers,...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. — 306 p. — (Helm Field Guides). — ISBN: 978-0-7-136-5167-6. This Helm Field Guide explores the birdlife of northern India, including the states of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat, and the Union Territory of Delhi. The plates are accompanied by text that highlights...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. — 144 p. — (Pocket Photo Guides). — ISBN: 978-1-4729-3826-8. The Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range, are a birdwatcher's paradise. Many of its species are high-altitude specialists, including Tibetan and Himalayan Snowcocks, Snow Partridge, Ibisbill, Tibetan Sandgrouse, Hume's Groundpecker, Tibetan Snowfinch, and Great Rosefinch. The area...
London: Christopher Helm, 2008. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-00-3001-5249-4. — Helm Field Guides. This is the first field guide devoted entirely to the birds of Pakistan. Compact yet comprehensive, it is the perfect companion for birders and ornithologists who need a portable tool to assist them in the accurate identification of birds in the field. For easy reference, the descriptive...
Helm, 2021. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4729-3756-8. — Helm Field Guides. Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated and intensively cultivated countries on Earth, and remnant natural and semi-natural habitats are under huge pressure. Despite this, the country can boast the Sundarbans, the largest area of mangrove forest in the world, vast expanses of intertidal habitat, and a...
2nd edition. — Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. — 367 p. — (Helm Field Guides). — ISBN: 978-1-4729-0571-0. Every species of bird recorded in Nepal is covered in this fantastic guide, including vagrants, with accurate distribution maps for most species. More than 790 species are featured with illustrations and concise text covering essential information for quick and easy reference....
2nd Edition. — Helm, 2020. — 368 p. This fully updated edition of Birds of Nepal is the most comprehensive guide to the birds of this beautiful Himalayan country. Every species of bird recorded in Nepal is covered in this fantastic guide, including vagrants, with accurate distribution maps for most species. More than 790 species are featured with illustrations and concise text...
Thrissur, Kerala: Lumiere Printing Works, 2021. — 219 p. — ISBN: 978-93-5445-472-1. Kerala Bird Atlas is Asia’s largest bird atlas in terms of geographical extent, sampling effort, and species coverage. The entire state of Kerala was systematically surveyed twice a year during 2015 – 2020 and over 0,3 million records of 380 species from 25 000 checklists were aggregated. After...
Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, 2004. — 165 p. — ISBN: 81-8171-047-9. The grey and white shorebirds may not fit into the norms attributed to the aesthetic beauty, which is generally associated with birds, by the layman. These birds are neither colourful nor are they, good songsters. But, once you observe them closely, you will find that they are second to none other in...
Amravati: Wildlife and Environment Conservation Society, 2020. — 101 p. — ISBN: 978-81-945056-3-1. The eBook in English is about 100 widespread birds found in India. The book describes 100 species of birds with their identification, calls, residential status, habitat, and distribution along with updated maps, some habits and food of most species, and interesting tidbits about...
Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India, 1984. — 169 p. The Andaman and Nicobar groups of tropical islands lying in the Bay of Bengal have tantalized casual bird watchers and seasoned ornithologists alike by the wealth and diversity of their avifauna ever since scientific bird study took root in India around the middle of the 19th century. Many of the most unique and beautiful...
Third Edition. — Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co, 1917. — 166 p. The kind reception accorded to the first edition of the present little work has been deemed a justification for its reproduction in an improved form. A few necessary alterations have been made to bring it up-to-date, and the chapters have been re-arranged to bring the birds dealt with into the same order as that in...
North Clarendon, VT: Periplus Editions, 2002. — 512 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4629-1485-2. This is the most comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of India and the Indian subcontinent. Never before have so many of the region's species been illustrated in one book. The brilliant photographs — most of which appear here for the first time — have been carefully selected to show not...
Helm, 2021. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4729-9248-2. — Helm Field Guides. Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated and intensively cultivated countries on Earth, and remnant natural and semi-natural habitats are under huge pressure. Despite this, the country can boast the Sundarbans, the largest area of mangrove forest in the world, vast expanses of intertidal habitat, and a...
London: Bloomsbury, 2016. — 145 p. — (Pocket Photo Guides). — ISBN: 1472932935. A compact, easy-to-use bird identification guide for any nature watcher on a visit to Sri Lanka, a rich and satisfying destination for watching birds with more than 430 species identified on the island. A total of 252 species is described here in detail, from the Black-rumped Flameback to the Ceylon...
Revised Edition. — Oxford University Press, 1996. — 354 p. — ISBN: 0-19-563731-3. Dr. Salim Ali last revised and enlarged the Book of Indian Birds in 1979 when the eleventh edition was published. This edition described and illustrated 296 species. The eleventh edition was reprinted five times, the last being in 1992. It was thereafter decided that the Book should be enlarged to...
Second Edition. — Oxford University Press, 1981. — 329 p. The Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan is the magnum opus of Indian ornithologist Salim Ali, written along with S. Dillon Ripley. The 10-volume work, often referred to as "the handbook", was started in 1964 and ended in 1974. A single volume "compact edition" of the "Handbook" was also produced and a...
Second Edition. — Oxford University Press, 1978. — 382 p. The Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan is the magnum opus of Indian ornithologist Salim Ali, written along with S. Dillon Ripley. The 10-volume work, often referred to as "the handbook", was started in 1964 and ended in 1974. A single volume "compact edition" of the "Handbook" was also produced and a...
Second Edition. — Oxford University Press, 1980. — 347 p. The Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan is the magnum opus of Indian ornithologist Salim Ali, written along with S. Dillon Ripley. The 10-volume work, often referred to as "the handbook", was started in 1964 and ended in 1974. A single volume "compact edition" of the "Handbook" was also produced and a...
Second Edition. — Oxford University Press, 1983. — 267 p. The Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan is the magnum opus of Indian ornithologist Salim Ali, written along with S. Dillon Ripley. The 10-volume work, often referred to as "the handbook", was started in 1964 and ended in 1974. A single volume "compact edition" of the "Handbook" was also produced and a...
Second Edition. — Oxford University Press, 1987. — 297 p. The Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan is the magnum opus of Indian ornithologist Salim Ali, written along with S. Dillon Ripley. The 10-volume work, often referred to as "the handbook", was started in 1964 and ended in 1974. A single volume "compact edition" of the "Handbook" was also produced and a...
Second Edition. — Oxford University Press, 1996. — 259 p. — ISBN: 0-19-562978-7. The Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan is the magnum opus of Indian ornithologist Salim Ali, written along with S. Dillon Ripley. The 10-volume work, often referred to as "the handbook", was started in 1964 and ended in 1974. A single volume "compact edition" of the "Handbook" was also...
Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, 2002. — 44 p. — ISBN: 81-85874-80-8. Information on the Endemic Birds of India is scattered. Ripley (1961) in his 'Synopsis' devoted a chapter on the Endemic bird Taxa of the Indian Subcontinent. He (1961) mentioned 176 species (under 104 genera, 39 families, and 16 orders) and 11 genera as Endemic Taxa for the entire Indian Subcontinent. Of...
Gibbon Books, 2003. — 50 p. — ISBN: 81-900866-4-2. — Gibbon Pocket Guides. There are more than 500 species (492 listed here) of birds in Nagaland. So far, two 'critically endangered', two 'endangered, 10 'vulnerable', 10 'near threatened', and nine restricted-range' species have been recorded in the state. This book aims to provide an up-to-date checklist of birds with a brief...
Delhi: Rupa&Co, 2015. — 116 p. — ISBN: 978-8-1291-1338-2. Common Birds of the Indian Subcontinent: A Field Guide is the perfect guide to birdwatching for novices and experts alike. Detailing the salient features of over two hundred of the most easily found bird species in the Indian subcontinent, the book also has guidelines about how to begin birdwatching, what equipment to...
London: WilliamCollins, 2015. — 400 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-0074-2955-4. Series: Collins Field Guide. This comprehensive new field guide is an excellent addition to the world-renowned series — the ultimate reference book for traveling birdwatchers. Every species of bird you might encounter in Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Andaman Islands, the Nicobar...
Second Edition. — Oxford University Press, 1998. — 331 p. — ISBN: 0-19-563695-3. The Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan is the magnum opus of Indian ornithologist Salim Ali, written along with S. Dillon Ripley. The 10-volume work, often referred to as "the handbook", was started in 1964 and ended in 1974. A single volume "compact edition" of the "Handbook" was also...
Second Edition. — Oxford University Press, 1997. — 297 p. — ISBN: 0-19-563657-0. The Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan is the magnum opus of Indian ornithologist Salim Ali, written along with S. Dillon Ripley. The 10-volume work, often referred to as "the handbook", was started in 1964 and ended in 1974. A single volume "compact edition" of the "Handbook" was also...
Second Edition. — Oxford University Press, 1996. — 251 p. — ISBN: 0-19-563590-6. The Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan is the magnum opus of Indian ornithologist Salim Ali, written along with S. Dillon Ripley. The 10-volume work, often referred to as "the handbook", was started in 1964 and ended in 1974. A single volume "compact edition" of the "Handbook" was also...
Second Edition. — Oxford University Press, 1999. — 269 p. The Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan is the magnum opus of Indian ornithologist Salim Ali, written along with S. Dillon Ripley. The 10-volume work, often referred to as "the handbook", was started in 1964 and ended in 1974. A single volume "compact edition" of the "Handbook" was also produced and a...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 136 p. A lifelong resident of Galápagos, Tui De Roy has been observing, studying, and photographing the islands’ astonishing birdlife for sixty years. In A Pocket Guide to Birds of Galápagos, she distills everything she has learned to create a one-of-a-kind field guide that every birder visiting the archipelago will want to carry with them...
Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1997. — 236 p. — ISBN: 0-811-7-0239-1. Covering nearly 300 species, Seabirds of the World: The Complete Reference illustrates nearly every significant plumage variation of the world’s seabirds. A remarkable collection of over 800 stunning photographs, many never seen in print before, has been assembled by leading agencies and bird...
Lexington, MA: Stephen Greene Press, 1987. — 317 p. — ISBN: 0828906106. A Field Guide to Seabirds of the World offers a unique and exciting collection of over 740 seabird photographs, selected from over 60,000 color slides contributed by more than 300 of the world’s leading seabird photographers and researchers. The majority of these photographs have never been published...
Scribner, 2023. — 256 p. Lab Girl meets Why Fish Don’t Exist in this “compelling blend of memoir, environmental writing, and scientific exploration” (Kirkus Reviews) from a young scientist studying penguins in Antarctica — a firsthand account of the beauty and brutality of this remote climate, the direct effects of climate change on animals, and the challenges of fieldwork....
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 362 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691-17501-0. A state-of-the-art photographic field guide to the world's oceanic birds. Oceanic birds are among the most remarkable but least known of all birds, living at sea, far from the sight of most people. They offer unusual identification challenges — many species look similar and it can be difficult to get good...
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. — 445 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1560982166. Whether it is an elusive darter stalking its prey in a tropical swamp, a flock of cormorants cooperatively driving a frenzied school of fish into the shallows of a lake or river, or brown pelicans plummeting into the ocean, these ancient groups of web-footed birds in the order Pelecaniformes...
ITexLi, 2018. — 101 p. — ISBN: 1789236576 9781789236576 1789236568 9781789236569 1838816143 9781838816148. This book presents a wide variety of global seabird-related issues, from India to Svalbard, Norway. It gives a comprehensive history of the use and chemical content of guano and certification schemes in fisheries for seabird conservation. Changes in seabird populations are...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 370 p. — ISBN: 1408181649, 0691180598. A comprehensive photographic guide to the world’s gull species. With more than 50 gull species in the world, this family of seabirds poses some of the greatest field identification challenges of any bird group: age-related plumage changes, extensive variations within species, frequent hybridization, and...
Ten Speed Press, 2016. — 127 p. — ISBN: 978-0399578670. Penguins are among the world’s most beloved birds. In this enchanting guide, Matt Sewell captures 50 species of penguins and other sea bird favorites like puffins and albatrosses. From the Little Penguin, who is only 13 inches tall, to the Fiordland Crested Penguin, who sports bushy yellow eyebrows, these charismatic birds...
Bloomsbury Natural History, 2015. — 240 p. Seabirds are the living links between land, air, and sea. They enjoy a freedom that even humans, with all our technological assistance, can barely imagine. Many species travel mind-boggling distances across the length and breadth of our planet before returning to land to breed in large, deafening, and confusingly crowded colonies. Yet...
London: Collins, 1979. — 292 p. — ISBN: 978-0-002197144. There are nearly 300 species of seabirds in the world. This book makes it possible to identify any of them. The introduction provides a brief survey of the world of seabirds: classification, distribution, surface feeding, seabird; characteristics, and aids to identification and survival. The text, richly illustrated with...
Johnsgard, Paul A.. Smithsonian Institution Press. 1993. 445p. ISBN-10: 1560982160. ISBN-13: 978-1560982166 Whether it is an elusive darter stalking its prey in a tropical swamp, a flock of cormorants cooperatively driving a frenzied school of fish into the shallows of a lake or river, or brown pelicans plummeting into the ocean, these ancient groups of web-footed birds in the...
Lynx Edicions. 2004. 476 p. ISBN10: 8487334644. ISBN13: 978-8487334641 Curassows, guans piping-guans, and chachalacas of the Family Cracidae are a group of about 50 species, many of which are endangered. These Neotropical galliform birds are mainly found in rain and cloud forests, and sometimes in drier deciduous woodlands, where their presence indicates that the area has not...
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...
Ten Speed Press, 2019. — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-1-984856-28-6. A compact, comprehensive, and very silly field guide featuring more than 200 of the rudest birds on earth. Effin' Birds is the most eagerly anticipated new volume in the grand and noble profession of nature writing and bird identification. Sitting proudly alongside Sibley, Kaufman, and Peterson, this book contains more...
T & AD Poyser, 2019. — 384 p. 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 spectrum of invertebrates. Surprisingly, this owl...
New York-London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. — 563 p. A description on the habits, call notes and songs of the birds of the Panama Canal Zone, for the purpose of identifying them. Many of these birds are also common in Central and South America
Falcon Guides, 2019. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-1493033881. Birdwatching is for everyone. No other outdoor pursuit yields so much knowledge of nature's ways with so little effort--if one knows what to look for. Birding New England opens the world of birding to the novice and expert in this complete guide to getting the most out of birding in New England. Birding New England includes...
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...
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...
6th edition — Alaska Northwest Books, 2015. — 368 p. Guide to the Birds of Alaska has been a must-have for Alaska birders for more than thirty years. In the sixth edition, Robert Armstrong provides hundreds of new photographs. Every bird is now illustrated including the casuals and accidentals. This comprehensive guide provides the most current knowledge about the birds in...
6th edition — Alaska Northwest Books, 2015. — 368 p. Guide to the Birds of Alaska has been a must-have for Alaska birders for more than thirty years. In the sixth edition, Robert Armstrong provides hundreds of new photographs. Every bird is now illustrated including the casuals and accidentals. This comprehensive guide provides the most current knowledge about the birds in...
Princeton University Press, 2005. — 130 p. Identifying hawks in flight is a tricky business. Across North America, tens of thousands of people gather every spring and fall at more than one thousand known hawk migration sites - from New Jersey's Cape May to California's Golden Gate. Yet, as many discover, a standard field guide, with its emphasis on plumage, is often of little...