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GB guides, handbooks, atlases
Field guides 2000 to present | 1950 to 1999 | 1900 to 1949 | Pre-1900 | Site Guides | Birdwatching Guides | Song ID | Atlases | County Avifaunas | Rare birds | Garden Birds |

World guides, handbooks, atlases
Handbooks/guides | Atlases | Rare birds | Site Guides | Birdwatching Guides | Handbook of Birds of the World | Bird Families Of The World | Checklists |

Books about GB and world species / families
Albatross | Anhinga | Asities | Auks | Avocet | Batis | Bee-eater | Bird Of Paradise | Birds Of Prey | Bittern | Blackbird | Blackbirds (New World) | Bowerbird | Broadbill | Bulbul | Bunting | Bustard | Buzzard | Cardinal | Cassowary | Chat | Cockatoo | Condor | Coot | Cormorant | Cotinga | Coursers | Cowbirds | Crake | Crane | Crane | Crossbill | Crow | Cuckoo | Curassow | Curlew | Darter | Darwin's Finch | Dipper | Diver | Dotterel | Dove | Drongo | Duck | Dunlin | Dunnock | Eagles | Egrets | Emu | Fairy-Wrens | Falcons | Fantail | Finch | Flamingo | Flowerpecker | Flycatchers | Francolin | Frigatebird | Frogmouths | Fulmar | Gannet | Geese | Gnatcatcher | Gnateater | Godwits | Goshawk | Grasswrens | Grebes | Greenshank | Grouse | Guan | Gulls | Harriers | Herons | Hobby | Honeyeaters | Honeyguides | Hornbill | Hummingbird | Ibis | Indigobird | Jacamar | Jackdaw | Jay | Kakapo | Kea | Kestrel | Kingbird | Kingfisher | Kite | Kiwi | Knot | Kokako | Kookaburra | Lapwing | Lark | Leafbird | Linnet | Longclaws | Lyrebird | Magpie | Manakin | Martin | Megapode | Merlin | Mockingbird | Moorhen | Motmots | Mousebird | New World Blackbird | New World Warbler | Nightingale | Nightjar | Nuthatch | Oilbird | Oriole | Osprey | Ostrich | Owls | Oxpecker | Oystercatcher | Pardalote | Parrots | Partridge | Pelican | Penguin | Peregrine | Petrel | Pheasant | Phoebes | Pigeon | Pipit | Pittas | Plovers | Potoos | Pratincoles | Puffbirds | Puffins | Quail | Quelea | Rail | Raptors | Raven | Redshank | Redstart | Rhea | Ring Ouzel | Roadrunner | Robin | Rollers | Rook | Ruff | Sanderling | Sandgrouse | Seabirds | Shearwater | Shorebirds | Shrike | Skimmers | Skua | Snipe | Sparrowhawk | Sparrow | American Sparrows | Spoonbill | Starling | Stone Curlew | Stork | Sunbird | Swallow | Swan | Swift | Takahe | Tanager | Tapaculo | Tern | Thrasher | Thrush | Tinamous | Tit | Todies | Toucan | Treecreeper | Trogon | Tropicbird | Turaco | Tyrant Flycatchers | Vangas | Vireos | Vultures | Waders | Wagtails | Warblers | Warblers (New World) | Waterfowl | Wattle-eye | Weavers | Wheatears | Whydah | Wildfowl | Woodcock | Woodcreepers | Woodpeckers | Woodswallows | Wrens

May also be interested in .... books about British ....
Bees | Bumblebees | Butterflies | Dragonflies | Ferns | Frogs | Grasshoppers and Crickets | Lichens | Lizards | Moths | Newts | Snakes | Trees | Toads | Wasps |

Bird books by region of GB
England : Beds | Berks | Bristol (Avon) | Bucks | Cambs | Cheshire | Cornwall | Cumbria | Derbys | Devon | Dorset | Durham | Essex | Gloucs | Hamps | Herefordshire | Herts | Isle of Wight | Kent | Lancs | Leics | Lincs | London | Merseyside | Norfolk | Northants | Northumb | Notts | Oxfordshire | Rutland | Scilly Isles | Shropshire | Somerset | Staffs | Suffolk | Surrey | Sussex | Warwickshire | West Midlands | Wiltshire | Worcs | Yorkshire | Wales : Anglesey | Mid Wales | N. Wales | Pembrokeshire | S. Wales | Scotland : Argyll | Ayrshire | Borders | Central Valley | Dumfries & Galloway | Fair Isle | Fife | Grampian | Highland | Inner Hebrides | Orkney | Outer Hebrides | Shetland | N. Ireland | Isle of Man | Channel Islands

Bird books by area of the world
Follow links for books about birds in specific countries
and islands within the continental or oceanic areas.

Europe (and countries) | Asia (and countries) | Africa (and countries) | Caribbean (and islands) | Cent. America (and countries) | S. America (and countries) | N. America (and countries) | Pacific (and islands) | Atlantic (and islands) | Indian Ocean (and islands) | Australasia / Oceania (and countries)

Books by GB organisations
British Ornithologists' Club (BOC) | British Ornithologists' Union (BOU) | British Trust For Ornithology (BTO) | Field Studies Council (FSC) | Natural History Museum (London) | Royal Society For The Protection Of Birds (RSPB) | UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum (UKOTCF) | Wildlife Trusts |

Books by other organisations
ABA | AEWA | AOU | BirdLife Int. | Cooper OS | International Wader Study Group | Nutall OC | OMPO | US Govt | Wetlands Int. | WWGBP |

Journals and reports
BTO reports | Current Ornithology | Ornithological Monographs | Pacific Coast Avifauna | Studies In Avian Biology | WIWO reports

Reference and miscellaneous
Birders, Twitchers, Listers & Big Years | Books about bird books | Journalism | Poetry anthologies | Shakespeare's birds | Gardening for birds | Dictionaries | Encyclopedias | Museum collections & bird collectors | Bird observatories | Bird stamps |

Art and artists
General bird art | Australian bird art | Artists_For_Nature | Images Of Nature series | Art Of Nature series |
Artists : Carry Akroyd | J.J. Audubon | Winifred Austen | Keith Brockie | John Busby | William T Cooper | Eric Ennion | Louis Agassiz Fuertes | Dana Gardner | Robert Gillmor | John Gould | Roland Green | Henrik Grönvold | Alan Harris | D.M. Reid Henry | Lars Jonsson | J.G. Keulemans | J. Fenwick Lansdowne | Edward Lear | Ian Lewington | George E. Lodge | James McCallum | Lilian Medland | Bruce Pearson | Chris Rose | C.F. Tunnicliffe | Michael Warren | Donald Watson | C. Webb Smith | Alexander Wilson | Tim Worfolk |

Ornithologists / Authors
Salim Ali | E. A. Armstrong | David A. Bannerman | Frank M. Chapman | Mark Cocker | T. A. Coward | Jean Delacour | Charles Dixon | H.E. Dresser | Richard Fitter | Errol Fuller | John Gould | Bernd Heinrich | W.H. Hudson | Paul Johnsgard | David Lack | Richard Mabey | Stephen Moss | Ian Newton | Malcolm Ogilvie | Penny Olsen | Derek Ratcliffe | Robert Ridgway | Henry Seebohm | Edmund Selous | G.E. Shelley | Eric Simms | Alexander Skutch | Gilbert White | Other ornithologists

Ornithological subjects
Anatomy | Archaeology | Avian Brood Parasitism | Bird names | Climate & weather | Colour | Cooperative breeding | Eggs & incubation | Energetics | Evolution | Extinct Birds | Feathers | Flight | Fossils & origins | History of Ornithology | Intelligence / Brain | Lekking | Migration | Nest construction | Physiology | Reproduction | Song | Speciation | Taxonomy | Urban ecology

Publishers / Series
Academic Pr | Arlequin | Artery | Aurum | Aves | Barracuda | John Beaufoy | Blandford (Bird Spotting series) | Bradt | Brambleby | British Wildlife Publ. | Buckingham | Calluna | Cambridge University Press | Canterbury University Press | Collins | Cornell University Press | Crossbill | CSIRO | David & Charles | Dundurn | Ebury | Editora Aves e Fotos | Falcon | Firefly | Greystone | Hamlyn | Harvard University Press | Helm | Isabelline | Ivy Press | Johns Hopkins University Press | KNNV Uitgeverij | Ladybird (536) | Langford Press | Liverpool University Press | Lone Pine | Lynx | R.W. Morse | Nat. Lib. Australia | New Holland | Observer's Book Of Birds | Otago University Press | Oxford University Press | Pelagic | Penguin (King) | Penguin (NGds) | Periplus | Pica | Craig Potton | Poyser | Princeton University Press | Prion | Reaktion | Red Hare | Saraband | Schiffer | Shire | Smithsonian | Springer | Stackpole | Surrey Beatty | Te Papa | Texas A&M University Press | University California Press | University Chicago Press | University Michigan Press | University Press New England | University Texas Press | Whittet | Whittles | Wren | Yale University Press


Last updated October 2017