Tales of Remarkable Birds by Dominic Couzens
$39.99 AUD
Category: Birds
Throughout the bird world, examples of strange and seemingly inexplicable behaviors abound. For example: Why do Male Fairywrens bring flowers to females as a nuptial gift in the pre-dawn darkness? Especially when the gift-givers are not the official mates of the females concerned, but visitors, and furt ...Show more
Art of Mindful Birdwatching by CLAIRE THOMPSON
$18.99 AUD
Category: Birds | Series: Mindfulness Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
"In The Art of Mindful Birdwatching, Claire Thompson elegantly weaves a narrative full of her own delightfully documented encounters with birds in amongst sage guidance on using mindfulness to help readers become deeply aware of the present moment. Following Claire's clearly described exercises has the ...Show more
Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance: Reflections on a Life of Raising Chickens by Martin Gurdon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Birds
This is a book about keeping chickens, but it is also feather-clad soap opera of primal urges. Written from firsthand experience, its pages are filled with the quest for absolute power, sex, death, jealousy, gender-bending, and huge vet bills. Beyond all the intrigue and drama, however, there are even s ...Show more
Your Backyard Birds: Understanding the behaviours, habits and needs of our brilliant birds by Grainne Cleary
$29.99 AUD
Category: Birds
The remarkable relationships between our often cheeky birds and humans in Australian backyards all over the country are revealed with humour and charm. An ideal gift for any bird lover.
Budgerigar: How a Brave, Chatty and Colourful Little Aussie Bird Stole the World's Heart by Sarah Harris; Don Baker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A curiosity of everything you ever wanted to know (or realised you never knew) about budgies. Beautiful and cheeky, delightful and enchanting, wild or tamed budgerigars are Australia's gift to the bird world.They sing and dance, and yawn as contagiously as humans. They are masters of mimicry. They grasp ...Show more
An Australian Birding Year by R. BRUCE. RICHARDSON
$39.99 AUD
Category: Birds
A highly personal account of a phenomenal, once-in-a-lifetime adventure that saw Bruce and his wife, Lynn, embark on a year of travel and birding across the entire continent of Australia in a camper van. Their aim was to see as many birds as possible together in the year. It began with a fly-past of two ...Show more
The Bedside Book of Birds by Graeme Gibson
$89.99 AUD
Category: Birds
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD 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 description of the soul growing w ...Show more
The Birds At My Table: Why we feed wild birds and why it matters by Darryl Jones
$27.99 AUD
Category: Birds
Darryl Jones is fascinated by bird feeders. Not the containers supplying food to our winged friends, but the people who fill the containers, scatter the crumbs or seeds, or leave the picnic scraps behind for the birds. Here, Jones takes us on a wild flight through the history of bird feeding as he ponde ...Show more
Tits, Boobies and Loons: And Others Birds Named by People Who Clearly Hate Birds by ROYALL, STUART
$22.99 AUD
Category: Birds
From the monotonous lark to the rough-faced shag, these poor birds have us all asking: ARE ORNITHOLOGISTS OK? Some people will literally name all the birds instead of going to therapy, and this book exposes all the weird and wonderful monikers these poor feathered creatures have been tarred with. From t ...Show more
Australian Magpie: Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird by Gisela Kaplan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Birds | Series: AUSTRALIAN NATURAL HISTORY
The Australian magpie is one of our nation's most popular and iconic birds. It is loved for its impressive vocal abilities, propensity to play, excellent parenting and willingness to form enduring friendships with people.Written by award-winning author Gisela Kaplan, a leading authority on animal behavi ...Show more
Complete Guide to Australian Birds by George Adams
$45.00 AUD
Category: Birds
This book is the most up-to-date guide to Australian birds available. Written in everyday language, with crisp, brilliant digital images taken in the wild, this authoritative guide includes- - The first entry and photograph of the previously believed extinct Night Parrot - The recently recognised as a f ...Show more