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Mrs Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names by Stephen Moss
$22.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Swallow and starling, puffin and peregrine, blue tit and blackcap. We use these names so often that few of us ever pause to wonder about their origins. What do they mean? Where did they come from? And who created them? The words we use to name birds are some of the most lyrical and evocative in the Engl ...Show more
Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen Moss
$36.99 AUD
Category: Nature
The natural history of humankind, told through our long relationship with birds For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies, religions, and rituals; exploited them for their natural resources; and been i ...Show more
The Robin: A Biography by Stephen Moss
$36.95 AUD
Category: Nature
No other bird is quite so ever-present and familiar, so embedded in our culture, as the robin. With more than six million breeding pairs, the robin is second only to the wren as Britain's most common bird. It seems to live its life alongside us, in every month and season of the year. But how much do we ...Show more
The Swallow by Stephen Moss
$39.99 AUD
Category: Nature
From the bestselling author of The Robin, The Wren and The Twelve Birds of Christmas. With around 5.3 million breeding pairs, the swallow is one of the most common birds in Britain. Known for living close to human settlements, including rural and urban areas, it is also one of the most-sighted. But how ...Show more
Urban Aviary: A Modern Glossary for the Cosmopolitan Bird Lover by Stephen Moss; Marc Martin (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Nature
A unique guide to the unusual and often surprising birds that soar above our cities around the world. From frigatebirds wheeling over Rio de Janeiro to bowerbirds displaying in the suburbs of Canberra, penguins in Cape Town to pelicans in San Francisco, and huge flocks of starlings roosting around the C ...Show more
Wild KingdomBringing Back Britain's Wildlife by Stephen Moss
$22.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Can Britain make room for wildlife? Stephen Moss believes it can. The newspaper headlines tell us that Britain's wildlife is in trouble. Wild creatures that have lived here for thousands of years are disappearing, because of pollution and persecution, competition with alien species, changing farming an ...Show more
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