Birds (ornithology) books

2406 books were found.

A Red Bird in a Brown Bag: The Function and Evolution of Colorful Plumage in the House Finch

A Red Bird in a Brown Bag: The Function and Evolution...

Author: Geoffrey E. Hill (Associate Professor of Zoology and Wildlife Science, Associate Professor of Zoology and Wildlife Science, Auburn University)
ISBN: 9780195148480
Format: Hardback
$118.95

This book is a study on the evolution of sexual selection in birds, as addressed through a research program. The...  Read More >>

The Adélie Penguin: Bellwether of Climate Change

The Adélie Penguin: Bellwether of Climate Change

Author: David Ainley ,  Lucia deLeiris
ISBN: 9780231123068
Format: Hardback
$157.95

Predictive indicators of the effects of global warming by the rise and fall of their populations, Adelie penguins...  Read More >>

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Birds

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Birds

Author: Michael Hutchins ,  Jerome a Jackson
ISBN: 9780787657871
Format: Hardback
$422.40

Grzimeks Animal Life Encyclopedia was first published in 13 volumes in German in the late 1960s. This English translation...  Read More >>

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Birds I

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Birds...

Author: Michael Hutchins ,  Walter J Bock
ISBN: 9780787657840
Format: Hardback
$422.40

Gale proudly presents the first completely revised and updated version of this acclaimed set in 30 years. Some reviewers...  Read More >>

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Birds

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Birds

Author: Michael Hutchins ,  Jerome a Jackson
ISBN: 9780787657864
Format: Hardback
$1306.80

Grzimeks Animal Life Encyclopedia was first published in 13 volumes in German in the late 1960s. This English translation...  Read More >>

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Birds

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Birds

Author: Michael Hutchins ,  Bernhard Grzimek
ISBN: 9780787657857
Format: Hardback
$422.40

Grzimeks Animal Life Encyclopedia was first published in 13 volumes in German in the late 1960s. This English translation...  Read More >>

A Guide to Bird Finding in New Jersey

A Guide to Bird Finding in New Jersey

Author: William Boyle
ISBN: 9780813530840
Format: Hardback
$132.00

A guide to birdwatching in New Jersey. It features information such as: descriptions of over 130 top birding spots;...  Read More >>

A Guide to Bird Finding in New Jersey

A Guide to Bird Finding in New Jersey

Author: William Boyle
ISBN: 9780813530857
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A guide to birdwatching in New Jersey. It features information such as: descriptions of over 130 top birding spots;...  Read More >>

Newman's Birds of Southern Africa

Newman's Birds of Southern Africa

Author: Kenneth Newman Kenneth Newman
ISBN: 9781868727353
Format: Book
$73.92

A field guide to birds, this title illustrates and describes fully all the birds recorded from southern Africa,...  Read More >>

The Behavior of Texas Birds

The Behavior of Texas Birds

Author: Kent Rylander
ISBN: 9780292771208
Format: Paperback
$65.95

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The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds: Their Distribution and Abundance

The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds: Their Distribution...

Author: Ward J.M. Hagemeijer ,  Michael Blair, QC
ISBN: 9780856610912
Format: Hardback
$308.75

This book compiles and organizes bird survey data from all of Europe, bringing together a team of 450 authors from...  Read More >>

Tundra Plovers: The Eurasian, Pacific and American Golden Plovers and Grey Plover

Tundra Plovers: The Eurasian, Pacific and American Golden...

Author: Ingvar Byrkjedal ,  Des Thompson
ISBN: 9780856611094
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This book on shorebirds (waders) examines the taxonomy, appearance, behaviour, ecology and conservation of the Golden...  Read More >>

The Nuthatches

The Nuthatches

Author: Erik Matthysen ,  David Quinn
ISBN: 9780856611018
Format: Hardback
$89.95

The Nuthatches is based on the European Nuthatch, with comparative information on the other west Paleartic and world...  Read More >>

Grassland Grouse and Their Conservation

Grassland Grouse and Their Conservation

Author: Paul A. Johnsgard
ISBN: 9781588340399
Format: Hardback
$35.98

Conservationists have seen a marked decline in the populations of North American grouse, particularly the grassland-adapted...  Read More >>

Cool North Wind: Morley Nelson's Life with Birds of Prey

Cool North Wind: Morley Nelson's Life with Birds of...

Author: Stephen Steubner ,  Stephen Steubner
ISBN: 9780870044267
Format: Hardback
$65.87

When you're around him, you feel like a bit of a disciple. There are a few people in this world who revealed something...  Read More >>

The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots

The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities...

Author: Irene Maxine Pepperberg
ISBN: 9780674008069
Format: Paperback
$65.95

Can a parrot understand concepts and mean what it says? Experiments performed on pigeons in Skinner boxes demonstrated...  Read More >>

Ratites and Tinamous: Tinamidae, Rheidae, Dromaiidae, Casuariidae, Apterygidae, Struthionidae

Ratites and Tinamous: Tinamidae, Rheidae, Dromaiidae,...

Author: Stephen Davies (, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia) ,  Michael. J Bamford
ISBN: 9780198549963
Format: Hardback
$367.95

The book contains a complete description of the natural history and biology of the Ratites and Tinamous - the group...  Read More >>

Handbook of the Birds of the World: Jacamars to Woodpeckers

Handbook of the Birds of the World: Jacamars to Woodpeckers...

Author: Josep del Hoyo ,  Andrew Elliott
ISBN: 9788487334375
Format: Hardback
$831.60

This volume covers Jacamars, puffbirds, barbets, honeyguides, toucans and woodpeckers. Each chapter, headed by a...  Read More >>

Welcome to the World of Hummingbirds

Welcome to the World of Hummingbirds

Author: Diane Swanson
ISBN: 9781552853184
Format: Paperback
$15.71

About the series: Each book in the Welcome to the World of Series introduces children to wildlife through color...  Read More >>

Pheasants, Partridges & Grouse: Including buttonquails, sandgrouse and allies

Pheasants, Partridges & Grouse: Including buttonquails,...

Author: Phil McGowan ,  Steve Madge
ISBN: 9780713639667
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Covering almost 260 species of gamebirds, this book focuses on identification, status and distribution, habitats...  Read More >>

A Guide to the Birds of Western Africa

A Guide to the Birds of Western Africa

Author: Ron Demey ,  Nik Borrow
ISBN: 9780691095202
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Covers the birds of all western African countries, from Senegal and southern Mauritania east to Chad and the Central...  Read More >>

Pheasants, Partridges, and Grouse: A Guide to the Pheasants, Partridges, Quails, Grouse, Guineafowl, Buttonquails, and Sandgrouse of the World

Pheasants, Partridges, and Grouse: A Guide to the Pheasants,...

Author: Steve Madge ,  Phil McGowan
ISBN: 9780691089089
Format: Hardback
$210.00

Brings together a comprehensive review of the world's pheasants, partridges, quails, grouse, turkeys, guineafowl,...  Read More >>

Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan

Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan

Author: Ali ,  Sidney Dillon Ripley
ISBN: 9780195655063
Format: Paperback
$493.95

This monumental ten-volume series, the first volume of which was published in 1996, and includes new information...  Read More >>

Evolutionary Ecology of Birds

Evolutionary Ecology of Birds

Author: Peter Bennett (Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, UK) ,  Ian Owens (Department of Biology, Imperial College London at Silwood Park, Ascot, UK)
ISBN: 9780198510888
Format: Hardback
$356.40

Birds show bewildering diversity in their life histories, mating systems and risk of extinction. Why, for example,...  Read More >>

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