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ISBN

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Drawing Birds (John Busby)

19.99

0-7136-6816-4

Beguiled by Birds (Ian Wallace)

29.99

0-7136-6535-1

The Good Bird Guide (Keith Marsh)

16.99

0-7136-6848-2

Bird Brain of Britain (Gallimore and Appleton)

7.99

0-7136-7036-3

RSPB Children’s Book of Birdwatching (Chandler & Unwin)

9.99

0-7136-7157-2

The Birds of Dorset (Geaorge Green)

40.00

0-7136-6834-9

Lapland – A Natural History (Derek Ratcliffe)

35.00

0-7136-6529-7

The Secret Habits of Garden Birds (Dominic Couzens)  Best seller

14.99

0-7136-6616-1

Whose Bird? (Those commemorated in bird names) Beolens & Watkins

17.99

0-7136-6647-1

Field Guide to the Birds of Chile (Jaramillo) Pbk

19.99

0-7136-4688-8

Field Guide to the Birds of Belize (Jones)  Pbk

29.99

0-7136-6760-5

Field Guide to the Birds of the Middle East (Porter et al  Pbk

24.99

0-7136-7016-9

Field Guide to the Birds of West Indies, (Raffaele et al) Pbk

16.99

0-7136-5419-8

Mammals of the World (Duff & Lawson) Hbk 

24.99

0-7136-6021-X

The Birds of the Isles of Scilly (Robinson) Hbk

45.00

0-7136-6037-6

The Birds of Shetland,(Pennington et al) Hbk

40.00

0-7136-6038-4

Birds in England (Brown & Grice) Hbk  DUE  2004

45.00*

0-7136-

The Whooper Swan (Brazil) Hbk 

45.00

0-7136-6570-X

The Skylark (Paul Donald) Hbk

35.00

0-7136-6568-8

The Penguins (Davis & Renner) Hbk 

35.00

0-7136-6550-5

Seabirds – Populations of Britain & Ireland (Seabird 2000 results)

35.00*

0-7136-

Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America (Sibley)

14.99

0-7136-6657-9

Field Guide to the Birds of Western North America (Sibley)

14.99

0-7136-6658-7

Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World (Dickenson) Hbk

60.00

0-7136-

Field Guide to Birds of Kenya & Northern Tanzania  (Zimmerman et al)

19.99

0-7136-6305-7

RECENTLY PUBLISHED

 

 

Birds and Light, the art of Lars Jonsson Hbk

35.00

0-7136-6405-3

Field Guide to the Birds of Venezuela (Hilty) Pbk

40.00

0-7136-6418-5

Birds of the Mediterranean (Sterry - Photographic Guide)

19.99

0-7136-6349-9

Howard & Moore Checklist for Birds 3rd edition Hbk 

60.00

0-7136-6536-X

The Migration Atlas (Marchant et al) Hbk

65.00

0-7136-6514-9

Birds of Suffolk (Piotrowski) Hbk

40.00

0-7136-6354-5

Gulls of Europe, Asia & Nth America (Olsen & Larsson)

45.00

0-7136-7087-8

Photographic Guide to the Birds of India (Grewal et al) Pbk

19.99

0-7136-6403-7

Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia (Morton Strange) Pbk

19.99

0-7136-6404-5

Photographic Guide to the Birds of South East Asia (M Strange) Pbk

19.99

0-7136-6402-9

EXISTING TITLES

 

 

John James Audubon (Watercpolours)  HBK

19.99

0-817569-63-9

Audubon to Xantus (Mearns) Origins of Bird Names Pbk

25.00

0-12-478423-1

Field Guide to the birds of Northern India (Grimmett & Inskipp) Pbk

19.99

0-7136-5167-9

The Birds of Ecuador Vol 1 (Ridgely & Greenfield) Pbk

60.00

0-7136-6116-X

The Birds of Ecuador Vol 2 (Ridely & Greenfield) Pbk

40.00

0-7136-6117-8

Both Volumes

85.00

0-7136-6161-5

Birds of Hungary (Gerard Gorman)  Hbk

24.99

0-7136-4235-1

Birds of Japan (Mark Brazil)  Hbk

45.00

0-7136-8006-7

Birds of the Czech Republic (Josef Kren)  Hbk

29.99

0-7136-4784-1

Field Guide to the Birds of Western Africa (Borrow & Demey, pbk)

24.99

0-7136-6692-7

Birds of Western Africa (Borrow & Demey)  Hbk

60.00

0-7136-3959-8

British Birds, folklore, names and literature (F Greenoak)  Pbk

16.99

0-7136-4814-7

Field Guide to the Birds of Australia 7th edition (Simpson & Day) Pbk

19.99

0-7136-6982-9

Field Guide to the Birds of Bhutan (Inskipp et al) Pbk

19.99

0-7136-5163-6

Field Guide to the Birds of Cuba (Garrido & Kirkconnel) Pbk

19.99

0-7136-5784-7

Field Guide to the Birds of the Nepal (Grimmett et al)  Pbk

24.99

0-7136-5166-0

Field Guide to the Birds of Seychelles (Skerrett et al)

25.00

0-7136-3973-1

Field Guide to the Birds of the Solomons, Vanuatu & New Caledonia

24.99

0-7136-4690-X

Field Guide to the Birds of Southern India (Grimmett & Inskipp)

19.99

0-7136-5164-4

Flight Identification of European Seabirds  (Blomdahl et al) Flexibound

35.00

0-7136-6020-1

Galapagos Diary (Heinzel & Hall) Pbk

16.99

0-7136-5434-1

Gripping Yarns (Bill Oddie) Pbk

7.99

0-7136-5268-3

Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica (Stiles & Skutch) Pbk

40.00

0-7136-3512-6

Guide to the Birds of Trinidad & Tobago 2nd edition (Ffrench) Pbk

35.00

0-7136-6759-1

Handbook of Bird Identification  for Europe & Western Palearctic

65.00

0-7136-3960-1

Mute Swan (Birkhead & Perrins)  Hbk

19.99

0-7099-3259-6

The North American Bird Guide (David Sibley) Flexibound

25.00

0-873403-98-4

Pocket Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (Grimmett et al)

19.99

0-7136-6304-9

RSPB Handbook of British Birds (Holden & Cleeves) Pbk

9.99

0-7136-5173-3

Seabirds of the World (Peter Harrison) Pbk

16.99

0-7136-4626-8

Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behaviour  Hbk

35.00

0-7136-6250-6

Songbirds of Turkey (C S Roselaar)  Pbk

24.00

1-873403-44-5

Tracks & Signs of the Birds of Britain & Europe 2nd Edition  pbk

24.99

0-7136-5382-5

Britain’s Rare Flowers (Peter Marren)

16.99

0-7136-7162-9

Orchids of Britain and Ireland (Anne & Simon Harrap)

29.99

0-7136-6956-X

Wildflowers by Colour (Marjorie Blamey)

9.99

0-7136-7237-4

Wild Flowers of Britain & Ireland (Fitter, Fitter & Blamey) Ppbk

16.99

0-7136-5944-0

Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean (Blamey & Grey-Wilson) Pbk

16.99

0-7136-7015-0

Pocket Guide to the Birds of Britain & Northwest Europe

12.99

0-7136-6444-4

Pocket Guide to the Trees of Britain & Northern Europe (Alan Mitchell)

14.99

0-7136-7238-2

Pocket Guide to the Insects of Britain & Western Europe (M Chinery)

14.99

0-7136-7239-0

Pocket Guide to African Mammals (J Kingdon)

16.99

0-7136-6981-0

Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals (J Kingdon)  Pbk

29.99

0-7136-6153-0

Sea Mammals of the World (Reeves et al)  Flexibound         

24.99

0-7136-6334-0

Birds of Europe (Lars Jonsson) Pbk

16.99

0-7136-5238-1

Family Guides

 

 

Buntings and Sparrows (Byers et al) Hbk

35.00

1-873403-19-4

Crows & Jays (Madge & Burn) Pbk

19.99

0-7136-5207-1

Finches & Sparrows (Clement, Harris & Davis) Pbk

24.99

0-7136-5203-9

Handbook to Swallows & Martins of the World (Turner & Rose) Hbk

29.99

0-7136-4206-8

Kingfishers, Bee-eaters & Rollers (Fry, Fry & Harris) Pbk

19.99

0-7136-5206-3

Munias & Mannikins (Robin Restall) Hbk

29.99

1-873403-51-8

New World Blackbirds (Jaramillo & Burke) Hbk

40.00

0-7136-4333-1

New World Warblers (Curson, Quinn & Beadle) Hbk

35.00

0-7136-3932-6

Nightjars (Nigel Cleere) Hbk

35.00

1-873403-48-8

Nightjars & related Night Birds (Ranft & Cleere) CD Sound Guide

16.99

0-7136-6093-7

Owls (Konig, Weick & Becking) Hbk

40.00

1-873403-74-7

Parrots (Juniper & Parr)  Hbk

40.00

0-7136-6933-0

Pheasants, Partridges & grouse (Madge & McGowan)  Hbk

45.00

0-7136-3966-0

Pittas, Broadbills & Asities (Frank Lambert) Hbk

29.99

1-873403-24-0

Pigeons & Doves (Gibbs, Barnes & Cox) Hbk

40.00

1-873403-60-7

Rails (Barry Taylor)  Hbk

40.00

1-873403-59-3

Raptors of the World (Ferguson-Lees & Christie) Hbk

55.00

0-7136-8026-1

Seabirds – An Identification Guide (P Harrison) Hbk Revised Edition

35.00

0-7136-3510-X

Shorebirds – An Identification Guide (Hayman et al ) Hbk

35.00

0-7136-3509-6

Shrikes (Norbert Lefranc) Kbk

29.99

1-873403-47-X

Shrikes & Bush Shrikes (Harris & Franklin) Hbk

40.00

0-7136-3861-3

Skuas & Jaegers (Klaus Malling Olsen) Hbk

29.99

1-873403-46-1

Starlings & Mynas (Feare & Craig)  Hbk

35.00

0-7136-3961-X

Stonechats (Urquhart & Bowley) Hbk

40.00

0-7136-6024-4

Sunbirds (Cheke, Mann & Allen)  Hbk

40.00

1-873403-80-1

Swifts 2nd Edition (Chantler & Diressens) Hbk

35.00

1-873403-83-6

Terns of Europe & North America (Olsen & Larsson)  Hbk

29.99

0-7136-4056-1

Thrushes (Clement & Hathaway) Hbk

40.00

0-7136-3940-7

Tit, Nuthatches & Treecreepers (Harrap & Quinn)  Hbk

35.00

0-7136-3964-4

Warblers of Europe, Asia & North Africa (Kevin Baker) Hbk

35.00

0-7136-3971-7

Wildfowl (Madge & Burn)  Hbk

35.00

0-7136-3647-5

Wrens, Dippers & Thrashers (David Brewer) Hbk

40.00

1-873403-95-X

Helm Where to Watch series

 

 

WTWB in Australasia and Oceania (Wheatley) Hbk

16.99

0-7136-4543-1

WTWB in Britain (Harrap & Redman)

19.99

0-7136-4137-1

WTWB in Central America & The Caribbean

16.99

0-7136-4687-X

WTWB Europe & Russia

16.99

0-7136-4870-8

WTWB France 2nd Edition (Dubois/LPO)

16.99

0-7136-6980-2

WTWB Italy

14.99

0-7136-3867-2

WTWB in Ireland

14.99

0-7136-3827-3

WTWB Mexico

19.99

0-7136-5087-7

WTWB North & East Spain

16.99

0-7136-4700-0

WTWB Southern and Western  Spain 2nd edition

16.99

0-7136-45301-9

WTWB South America

16.99

0-7136-3909-1

WTWB Switzerland

16.99

0-7136-5183-0

WTWB Cumbria, Lancs & Cheshire (3rd edition, 2002)

14.99

0-7136-4479-6

WTWB in Devon & Cornwall 4th Edition

14.99

0-7136-5690-5

WTWB in Dorset, Hants & Isle of Wight 3rd Edition

14.99

0-7136-5692-1

WTWB in Herefordshire & Shropshire etc 2nd edition

14.99

0-7136-4478-8

WTWB in East Anglia 4th Edition

14.99

0-7136-5864-9

WTWB in East Midlands

14.99

0-7136-4460-5

WTWB in Kent, Surrey & Sussex (4th edition)

14.99

0-7136-6420-7

WTWB London Area

14.99

0-7136-3868-0

WTWB in Northeast England  2nd Edition

16.99

0-7136-6826-1

WTWB in Somerset, Avon, Glos & Wilts  3rd Edition

14.99

0-7136-6614-5

WTWB Thames Valley & Chilterns 3rd Edition

14.99

0-7136-5953-X

WTWB Yorks & North Humberside 2nd edition

14.99

0-7136-4634-9

WTWB in Scotland (4th edition )

14.99

0-7136-5693-X

WTWB in Wales 3rd edition

14.99

0-7136-5136-9

WTW Mammals in Britain & Ireland (Richard Moores)

16.99

0-7136-7161-0

IDENTIFICATION GUIDES

 

 

Birds of the Indian Subcontinent

55.00

0-7136-

Birds of Kenya & Northern Tanzania (Zimmerman et al) Hbk 

50.00

0-7136-3968-7

Birds of the West Indies (Raffaele et al) Hbk

40.00

0-7136-4905-4

Pipits & Wagtails of Europe & North America (Alstrom et al) Hbk

48.00

0-7136-5834-7

Sylvia Warblers (Shirihai, Gargello & Helbig) Hbk

60.00

0-7136-3984-9