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The Wonderful Mr Willughby by Tim Birkhead
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.05'Birkhead has combined ingenuity and perseverance to produce an evocative portrait of a great pioneer in the scientific study of birds' Literary Review Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the... -
What it's Like to be a Bird by Tim Birkhead 9781526604125
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.19'This beautiful book is one to treasure forever' David Walliams, comedian and children's author WINNER of The Margaret Mallett Award for Children's Non-Fiction 2022 Have you ever wondered what... -
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird Tim Birkhead 9781408830543
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.39What 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... -
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird's Egg by Tim Birkhead
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.07'I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg' Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862 How are eggs of... -
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead 9781408820131 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.36What 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... -
Waiting for the Albino Dunnock: How birds can change your life Rosamond Richardson 9781474603003
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.45'A beautiful book' Tim Birkhead, author of BIRD SENSE'A glorious, beautifully written pilgrimage into the soaring world of birds' Bel Mooney, DAILY MAILWritten by a beginner-birdwatcher with the... -
Waiting for the Albino Dunnock: How birds can change your life by Rosamond Richardson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $6.20'A beautiful book' Tim Birkhead, author of Bird Sense'The prose is sublime, and so is the intelligence behind it' Bel Mooney, Daily MailThe extraordinary world of birds has the power to change lives,... -
Curlew Moon by Mary Colwell
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10'Focuses a razor light on the plight of one of our most iconic birds. Inspirational!' Tim Birkhead Curlews are Britain's largest wading bird, known for their evocative calls... -
Bird Photographer of the Year by 9780008175238
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $25.19Foreword by Chris Packham This beautiful book accompanies a new photographic competition celebrating some of the best bird photography of the year. ... -
Across a Waking Land: A 1,000-Mile Walk Through a British Spring by Roger Morgan-Grenville
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.21SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD 2023'Roger Morgan-Grenville, one of Britain's leading conservationists' - The HeraldA veteran nature writer walks the length of Britain in pursuit of... -
Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate by Sally Coulthard 9781801104487
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28The humble chicken has conquered the world. This unlikely descendant of Tyrannosaurus Rex is now so ubiquitous there are more than 20 billion chickens pecking, strutting and scratching around the... -
The Tigers' Tale: A conservation story by Catherine Barr
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79From the author of the beautiful Fourteen Wolves comes another incredible true story of rewilding. Perfect for children aged 7+ Magnificent, powerful and mysterious, the tiger is one of the... -
Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables by Jo Wimpenny 9781472966926
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Turns a critical eye on Aesop's Fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop's portrayal of his animals. Despite originating more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop's... -
12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature's Lessons in Happiness by Charlie Corbett
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37Discover the healing power of nature through the stories of these characterful birds, whose song is never far away . . .LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE'A lyrical and life-affirming book that... -
12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature's Lessons on Happiness by Charlie Corbett 9780241503331 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $8.82Find solace, hope and happiness this winter through 12 fascinating birds whose song is never far away - if only we know where to look . . .'A lyrical and life-affirming book that teaches us as much... -
Welcome to Subirdia: Sharing Our Neighborhoods with Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife by John M. Marzluff
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.34Even as growing cities and towns pave acres of landscape, some bird species have adapted and thrived. How has this come about?Welcome to Subirdia presents a surprising discovery: the suburbs of many... -
The Gathering Place: A Winter Pilgrimage Through Changing Times by Mary Colwell 9781399400541
Booksplease Price: $24.11SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'Deeply poetic.' CAROLINE LUCAS MP 'A masterpiece of storytelling.' NICK MAYHEW-SMITH 'Mary Colwell is a candle of open-minded... -
The Restless Coast: A Journey around the Edge of Britain by Roger Morgan-Grenville 9781837731442
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $21.86The island of Britain has over 10,000 miles of coastline, steeped in history and constantly shifting, changing, adapting and providing. The Restless Coast is a moving and beautiful account of a... -
Far from Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds by Michael Brooke 9780691210322
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.78The lives and activities of seabirds as you've never seen them beforeSeabirds evoke the spirit of the earth's wildest places. They spend large portions of their lives at sea, often far from land, and... -
Far from Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds by Michael Brooke
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $29.08The lives and activities of seabirds as you've never seen them beforeSeabirds evoke the spirit of the earth's wildest places. They spend large portions of their lives at sea, often far from land, and... -
The Galapagos Henry Nicholls 9781781250549
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $9.37Formed of dramatic volcanic scenery and home to marvellous beasts, it is little wonder that the first name for the Galapagos archipelago was Las Encantadas: the enchanted islands. In this captivating... -
The Consolation of Nature: Spring in the Time of Coronavirus by Michael McCarthy
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST NATURE BOOKS OF 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES SOCIETY & WHITE HORSE BOOKSHOP LITERARY PRIZE'Lovely: full of fascinating detail and anecdote, but the undertow of... -
Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words by Jeremy Mynott
Booksplease Price: $70.69Birds pervaded the ancient world. They impressed their physical presence on the daily experience and imaginations of ordinary people in town and country alike, and figured prominently in literature...