How Birds Behave: Interpreting What They Do and Why by Wenfei Tong
$39.99 AUD
Category: Birds
Birds are intelligent, sociable creatures that exhibit a wide array of behaviours — from mobbing and mimicking to mating and joint nesting. Why do they behave as they do? Bringing to light the remarkable actions of birds through examples from species around the world, How Birds Behave presents engaging ...Show more
The Chicken: A natural history by Joseph Barber
$42.99 AUD
Category: Birds
Topics include anatomy, developmental biology, ancestry, breeding and origins, and there is a comprehensive look at chicken behaviour. The book's final chapter is devoted to a beautiful visual study of the characteristics of particular breeds, providing quick-reference information on husbandry, particul ...Show more
Nest: The Art of Birds by Janine Burke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Birds | Reading Level: very good
We tend to take birds for granted, in the landscape or in our neighbourhoods. The presence of birds communicates the health of a place. When they're gone, it's as though there's a hole in the sky, in the air, an absence of beauty and grace, and vivid chatter or haunting cries are replaced with eerie sil ...Show more
Bedside Book of Birds : An avian miscellany by Graeme Gibson
$59.95 AUD
Category: Birds
The perfect gift for birdwatchers and literary ornithologists everywhere. Featured in the vast majority of mythologies and religions, birds are generally associated with creativity and the human spirit. From the Christian dove to Quetzalcoatl (the Aztec plumed serpent), and from Raven Man to Plato's des ...Show more
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia by GRAHAM PIZZEY AND FRANK KNIGHT
$43.95 AUD
Category: Birds | Series: Collins Pocket Guides Ser.
This is an illustrated field guide to Australian birds. The artist Frank Knight, a member of the Society of Animal Art (New York), has produced 250 new colour plates especially for this book.
Every Penguin in the World: A Quest to See Them All by Charles Bergman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Birds
This is the question at the heart of author and photographer Charles Bergman's quest. After a life-changing encounter with a king penguin on South Georgia Island, Bergman and his wife, Susan, committed to seeing all eighteen current species of penguins on the planet. Their passion took them to the far e ...Show more
12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature's Lessons in Happiness by Charlie Corbett
$35.00 AUD
Category: Birds
Can you recognise the cheerful chirrups of the house sparrow? A song thrush singing out at winter's darkest hour? Or the beautiful haunting call of the curlew?At a time of great anxiety and uncertainty, while coping with the untimely death of his mother, Charlie Corbett realised his perspective on life ...Show more
Bird: Exploring the Winged World by Phaidon Editors, Katrina Grouw, Jen Lobo
$79.95 AUD
Category: Birds
Let your imagination take flight and celebrate the beauty and diversity of birds throughout art, science, history, and culture Bird: Exploring the Winged World presents a visually stunning survey of birds, chronicling their scientific and popular appeal throughout the ages and around the world. Showcas ...Show more
Flight of the Budgerigar: An Illustrated History by Penny Olsen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Birds
The Budgerigar is arguably Australia’s best-known bird. At the same time, it is so ubiquitous that not everyone knows that it is Australian. Nor do many realise that the multicoloured bird that comes to mind — not to mention today’s super-sized, extravagantly coiffed show budgie — is as different from t ...Show more
Victorian Bird Walks - A Guide to Walks and Birds in Victoria by Damian Kelly 1st (Photographer)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Birds
Natural history guide
David Hollands’ Birds of Prey Of Australia by David Hollands
$69.95 AUD
Category: Birds
AUSTRALIA'S BIRDS OF PREY are exhilarating: the effortless soaring of an eagle, the kestrel's hovering precision, the electrifying pace of a hobby and the controlled glide of a harrier - often so slow, that it must surely stall? These sights so inspired David Hollands that in 1984 he wrote his first boo ...Show more