The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future by Jim Robbins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Birds | Reading Level: General Adult
Birds, Jim Robbins posits, are our most vital connection to nature. They compel us to look to the skies, both literally and metaphorically; draw us out into nature to seek their beauty; and let us experience vicariously what it is like to be weightless. Birds have helped us in so many of our human endea ...Show more
Cluck - A Book of Happiness for Chicken Lovers by Freya Haanen (Editor); Scott Thompson (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Birds | Series: Animal Happiness Ser.
Any chicken owner will know that there's more to these endearing, quirky, clever characters than the eggs they produce. Cluck is a celebration of hens, roosters and chicks, combining high-quality photography with inspirational and amusing quotes to create the perfect gift for chicken fans. Some of the c ...Show more
A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Australia (Australian Geographic) by Dean Ingwersen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Birds | Series: Naturalists' Guides
This easy-to-use identification guide to 280 bird species in Australia, including the most commonly seen and rare endemic species, is perfect for resident and visitor alike. High quality photographs from one of Australia's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, whi ...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
Falcon by Helen Macdonald
$24.99 AUD
Category: Birds | Series: Animal S.
A sacred god, a military tool, an erotic symbol: the falcon is a natural wonder of speed, power, beauty, and ferocity that has become embedded in human cultures in myriad ways. Helen Macdonald's Falcon examines the diverse symbolism and roles attached to the falcon throughout the centuries. Macdonald pr ...Show more
Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die by SANTELLA CHRIS
$29.99 AUD
Category: Birds
Some bird lovers hang feeders in their gardens and accumulate garden lists, others participate in annual 'Christmas Counts', a select few travel to the ends of the earth in an effort to see every bird in the world. With "Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die", Chris Santella takes the best-selling F ...Show more
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
Falcon by Helen Macdonald
$21.99 AUD
Category: Birds | Series: Animal Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Before best-selling author Helen Macdonald told the story of the goshawk in H Is for Hawk, she told the story of the falcon, in a cultural history of the masterful creature that can “cut the sky in two” with the “perfectly aerodynamic profile of a raindrop,” as she so incisively puts it. In talon-sharp ...Show more
Birds in Their Habitats: Journeys with a Naturalist by Ian Fraser
$39.95 AUD
Category: Birds
Everywhere we go there are birds, and they all have mysteries to be unravelled. These mysteries include the way they look, from bizarre to apparently mundane, why they live where they live, and the things they do, many of which are far too incredible ever to be imagined as fiction.Birds in Their Habitat ...Show more
Birdland by Leila Jeffreys
$49.99 AUD
Category: Birds
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
The Eastern Curlew by Harry Saddler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Birds
Every year around August, large flocks of Eastern Curlews leave their breeding grounds in the Arctic and embark on a perilous 10,000km journey to the coast of Australia. The birds cannot swim; if they become exhausted and fall into the ocean, they die. But it’s a journey they have taken for tens of thou ...Show more
The Compact Australian Bird Guide by Jeff Davies, Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Peter Marsack, Kim Franklin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Birds
The Compact Australian Bird Guide is an easy-to-use and beautifully illustrated quick identification guide to all bird species regularly occurring in Australia. The content has been carefully designed to provide the reader with key information to enable rapid identification of a bird, in a convenient fo ...Show more