State of the World’s Birds
FREE download. This report is a brief summary of the information available on BirdLife’s State of the world’s birds website.
Continue reading...Critically Endangered Birds: A Global Audit
Monday, January 10, 2011
FREE Download. Critically Endangered Birds is a product of the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme. It presents the science underpinning the programme and the actions needed by other organisations, agencies and governments to complement it.
Continue reading...World Birdwatch Magazine
Monday, January 10, 2011
Subscription just £30/year. World Birdwatch is BirdLife's international magazine about birds – crammed with recent news and authorative articles about birds, their habitats, and their conservation around the world.
Continue reading...Bird Conservation International
Monday, January 10, 2011
Access to online archive FREE. Bird Conservation International is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal focusing on the major conservation issues affecting birds and their habitats.
Continue reading...Antarctic Wildlife: A Visitor’s Guide to the Wildlife of the Antarctic Peninsula, Drake Passage and Beagle Channel
Monday, January 10, 2011
240 pages, £17.95, Available to buy. This is a handy-sized photographic field guide that aims to help visitors to this remarkable part of the world.
Continue reading...Feathers
Monday, January 10, 2011
336 pages, £18.99, Available to buy. In "Feathers", biologist Thor Hanson tells a sweeping natural history of feathers, as they've been used to fly, protect, attract, and adorn through time and place.
Continue reading...Nightjars of the World
Monday, January 10, 2011
464 pages, £44.99, Available to buy. This lavishly illustrated book is the first comprehensive photographic guide to the Caprimulgiformes of the world.
Continue reading...Saving Asia’s Threatened Birds: A Guide for Government and Civil Society
Monday, January 10, 2011
256 pages, £19, Available to buy. This book documents the major forest, grassland and wetland regions of Asia and the globally threatened bird species which they support.
Continue reading...Threatened Birds of the World
Monday, January 10, 2011
852 pages, £52.99, Available to buy. This book covers all 1200 species now threatened with global extinction. The threats to each species are described, with an evaluation of conservation measures so far and targets for the future.
Continue reading...A Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife: The Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean
Monday, January 10, 2011
544 pages, £40.00, Available to buy. This book is the first complete guide to the natural history and wildlife of this vast region, covering all the sub Antarctic islands, the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic Continent.
Continue reading...Threatened Birds of Asia (2 volume set): The BirdLife International Red Data Book
Monday, January 10, 2011
3038 pages, £55, Available to buy. Provides incredibly detailed information on the 665 most threatened bird species found in Asia.
Continue reading...The Atlas of Birds: Mapping Avian Diversity, Behaviour and Habitats Worldwide
Monday, January 10, 2011
144 pages, £16.99, Available to buy. Authoritative and concise, this beautifully illustrated atlas captures the dazzling diversity of bird life around the world.
Continue reading...The Jewel Hunter
Monday, January 10, 2011
424 pages, £17.99, Available to buy. “Insightful, compelling and laugh-out-loud funny, this is more than a book about birds.
Continue reading...Bird Watch: A Survey of Planet Earth’s Ecosystems
Monday, January 10, 2011
256 pages, £36.50, Available to buy. Bird Watch is an illustrated tour of endangered birds and their habitats.
Continue reading...Birds and People: Bonds in a Timeless Journey
Monday, January 10, 2011
360 pages, £9.99, Available to buy. Birds and People: Bonds in a Timeless Journey unfolds the history of our relationship with the most colourful and familiar of the groups of organisms we share our planet with.
Continue reading...Areas Importantes Para La Conservacion de Las Aves En Los Andes Tropicales
Monday, January 10, 2011
769 pages, £30, Available to buy. More than 600 researchers contributed to the book, which took eight years to compile. 455 sites are identified, covering 17% of the land area of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuala.
Continue reading...Raptor watch
Monday, January 10, 2011
419 pages, £15, Available to buy. At least 63 percent of the world's raptors migrate. Raptor Watch, compiled from contributions by over 800 observers worldwide, is a guide to 388 hotspots where these birds can be seen in their thousands.
Continue reading...Endemic Bird Areas of the World: Priorities for Conservation
Monday, January 10, 2011
860 pages, Out of print. At the heart of this book are descriptions of all 218 EBAs, including key habitats, major threats and conservation initiatives and a detailed map.
Continue reading...Seabirds on Islands: Threats, Case Studies and Action Plans
Monday, January 10, 2011
318 pages, Out of print. A series of 16 case studies from around the world, including Indonesia, Greenland, Indian Ocean islands, the Galapagos and the West Indies.
Continue reading...Birds in Europe: Population Estimates, Trends and Conservation Status
Monday, January 10, 2011
374 pages, Out of print. Birds in Europe: Population Estimates, Trends and Conservation Status covers the European continent from Greenland in the west to the Urals in the east, and from Svalbard in the north to the Canary Islands in the south
Continue reading...Key Areas for Threatened Birds in the Neotropics
Monday, January 10, 2011
312 pages, £10, Available to buy. Taking a country-by-country, site-based approach, this book documents the 596 most important areas for the conservation of these threatened birds.
Continue reading...European Bird Populations: Estimates and Trends
Monday, January 10, 2011
160 pages, Out of print. The publication of European Bird Populations: Estimates and Trends means that, for the first time, all pan-European data on bird populations and their distribution are available in one book.
Continue reading...Birds to Watch 2: The BirdLife International World Checklist of Birds
Monday, January 10, 2011
407 pages, Out of print. New edition of Birds to Watch with c.1,200 species identified as globally threatened using the latest IUCN criteria.
Continue reading...Habitats for birds in Europe
Monday, January 10, 2011
464 pages, Out of print. This book brings together more than 190 bird and habitat conservation experts from all over Europe, to examine the threats to Europe's eight major habitat types, and propose policies and actions to protect and restore them.
Continue reading...Birds in Europe: Their Conservation Status
Monday, January 10, 2011
600 pages, Out of print. This milestone publication presents the first thorough and detailed review of the conservation status of European birds.
Continue reading...Important Bird Areas in Asia: Key Sites for Conservation
Monday, January 10, 2011
297 pages, £19, Available to buy. Important Bird Areas in Asia is the first comprehensive inventory of Asia's key sites for birds and biodiversity
Continue reading...Important Bird Areas in Europe: Priority Sites for Conservation 2 Volume Set
Monday, January 10, 2011
1600 pages, £35, Available to buy. Updated and extended, this book provides comprehensive coverage of the 3,619 most important sites for bird conservation in 51 European countries, equivalent to seven percent of the continent's land area.
Continue reading...Important Bird Areas in the Caribbean: Key Sites for Conservation
Monday, January 10, 2011
348 pages, £22.99, Available to buy. This publication puts a spotlight on the Caribbean network of Important Bird Areas (IBAs).
Continue reading...Important Bird Areas in Africa and Associated Islands: Priority Sites for Conservation
Monday, January 10, 2011
1144 pages, £14.99, Available to buy. This book details 1228 sites in 58 countries in Africa which support such threatened species, or meet other criteria to qualify as Important Bird Areas (IBAs).
Continue reading...Important Bird Areas of the Americas: Priority Sites for Biodiversity Conservation
Monday, January 10, 2011
460 pages, £44.99, Available to buy. This book provides a concise summary of the 2345 Important Bird Areas in the Americas.
Continue reading...Important Bird Areas in the Middle East
Monday, January 10, 2011
410 pages, Out of print. This book identifies and describes the 391 sites most important for the conservation of these birds and other biodiversity.
Continue reading...- Alaotra Grebe extinction – Do you care?
- UPDATE: over 866,000 birds slaughtered so far this autumn in Cyprus! - Sign the petition to stop this now!
- List of extinct bird species
- 89,225 birds slaughtered…so far! - Sign the petition to stop it now!
- Project launched to identify conservation targets within one million km2 of Eastern Africa
- Searching for Sociable Lapwing with Nature Iraq's Omar Fadil
- Birds at risk from the Gulf Oil Spill
- An Aruba without Troupial, Prikichi, Patrushi or Shoco?
- Concurso: Ponle el nombre al ave simbolo del Festival Mundial de las Aves
- Miracle in the marshes of Iraq
- Jani Untinen: And there might be some pretty angry birds......
- Linda Killeen: 1 Kereru in our garden at 8.15 still there eating ...
- Andrew Chapman: Without habitat,there is no wildlife, its as simpl...
- Geoff Orton: Ulcinj Salina could be a major draw for ecotourism...
- Brenton: Very positive news. Also, shows that individuals c...
- Videos provide new information on Mao
- Emergency conservation work pays off: Zino's Petrel bounces back!
- Petrel causes a storm for New Zealand
- First assessment of Endangered Northern Rockhopper Penguins since 2011 oil spill
- BirdLife welcomes passing of law to secure transboundary ecosystems in East Africa
- Sustainable tourism for Nepal's wetlands
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