Birds: Myth, Lore and Legend by Rachel Warren-Chadd
$55.00 AUD
Category: Natural World & Animals
Why are owls regarded either as wise or as harbingers of doom? What gave rise to the fanciful belief that storks bring babies? Why is the eagle associated with victory or the hummingbird with paradise? The answers are here in this new and engaging book. By re-telling the many legends, beliefs, proverbs ...Show more
Birds of Prey Majestic Hunters Through Spectacular Photography by Parragon
$10.99 AUD
Category: Natural World & Animals
Birds of prey are the winged predators of the sky and are celebrated in this fantastic book. Exploring the diversity of each bird, its habitat, hunting methods and breeding and lifestyle havits, this exquisite book offers a complete guide for any avid bird lover. [inside front cover].
Birds of Australia: A Photographic Guide by Iain Campbell, Sam Woods, Nick Leseberg
$59.99 AUD
Category: Natural World & Animals
Australia is home to a spectacular diversity of birdlife, from parrots and penguins to emus and vibrant passerines. Birds of Australia covers all 714 species of resident birds and regularly occurring migrants and features more than 1,100 stunning color photographs, including many photos of subspecies an ...Show more
Nature Guide: Birds of Australia by Dorling Kindersley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural World & Animals
This guide is a fabulous resource for bird lovers, watchers, and professional twitchers interested in Australian birds. It covers every major Australian bird group and includes a distribution map showing where each bird can be found. Details on size, weight, nesting habits, bird calls, clutch sizes and ...Show more
Photographic Guide to Birds of by Jim (Australian Museum) Flegg
$34.95 AUD
Category: Natural World & Animals | Series: Photographic Field Guide Ser.
This is a bird-identification guide with a difference. Instead of using colour plates of paintings to identify the species, it features photographs, covering all 840 bird species that live or visit the Australian continent. Following a brief introduction about bird biology, habitats and bird families, t ...Show more
Green Guide: Birds of Australia by Peter Rowland
$18.99 AUD
Category: Natural World & Animals | Series: Australian Green Guides
There are over 700 species of birds in Australia, and this book provides an introduction to the major groups, with an emphasis on those that the amateur naturalist and nature-lover is most likely to see.
Birds (Wild Australia Guide) by ADCOCK Lynne
$14.95 AUD
Category: Natural World & Animals | Series: Wild Australia Guide
This great southern continent has been separated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. In that time, its flora and fauna have evolved uniquely. Many of Australia's bird species are found nowhere else on the planet, while others are regular visitors from beyond its shores. Showcasing many of ...Show more
Birds by Jonathan Elphick
$49.99 AUD
Category: Natural World & Animals
This beautiful book tells the story of the development of bird art through the ages. It ranges from the early decorative - but often fanciful - images of birds, through more accurate portrayals resulting from exploration and an increasing knowledge of the world's avifauna, to modern attempts at capturin ...Show more
Birdmania by Bernd Brunner
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural World & Animals
A window on the world of birders-obsessive, passionate, quirky, and always interesting "Like bird watching itself, reading Birdmania is filled with surprises and a sense of discovery. But in this collection it is the watchers, not the birds, who are on display - ornithologists and bird lovers of every ...Show more
Birdland by Leila Jeffreys
$49.99 AUD
Category: Natural World & Animals
In Birdland, Australian fine-art photographer Leila Jeffreys presents us with a bird-watching experience like no other, drawing birds out from their leafy shadows and airy territories and presenting them to us with the skill and intricate detail of a portrait painter. The result is a stunning encounter ...Show more
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead
$19.99 AUD
Category: Natural World & Animals
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses q ...Show more
The Bird in Art
$5.00 AUD
Category: Natural World & Animals
There has until now been no proper study of the bird in art, despite our fascination with birds, and despite the wealth of complex meanings associated with them in different cultures. A number of pagan gods are linked with birds, and dynasties and empires have adopted powerful birds as their symbols. Bi ...Show more