Easterbrook, Trevor. Birds of the Heart of England.
1st. Ed. Pub. Liverpool University. 2013 pp.212 with illus. Large 8vo. New hardback in new dw.
Draws on a 60 year study of birds in the Banbury area (includes North Oxfordshire, South Northamptonshire and South Warwickshire), providing an in-depth account of birdlife in the region between 1952 and 2011.
£20.00 [ref: 54185]
Eeles, P. Life Cycles of British & Irish Butterflies.
1st. Ed. Pub. Pisces. 2019 pp.vi, 394 with colour photos. throughout. 4to. Hardback. New.
Frohawk was the first to capture all the stages in the life cycles of all British and Irish butterflies. This new work repeats that feat. With detailed descriptions and photographs of the adult, egg, caterpillar and chrysalis of each of the 59 butterfly species that are considered resident or regular migrants to Britain and Ireland.
£35.00 [ref: 63809]
Erritzøe, Johannes. et al. Cuckoos of the World.
1st. Ed. Pub. Helm. 2012 pp.544 with colour photos., illus. and dist. maps. Royal 8vo. New hardback in new dw. RRP £105.00. A superb work.
‘Cuckoos of the World’ describes all 144 species of the Cuculidae in exceptional detail, with accurate range maps and superb illustrations by four world-renowned artists to show different plumages and subspecies.
£75.00 [ref: 53314]
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Evans, Sara. When the Last Lion Roars.
1st. Ed. Pub. Bloomsbury 2018 pp.304 with a group of colour photos. 8vo. New hdbk. in new dw.
Sara Evans considers the cultural significance of the lion over thousands of years as well as its historic rise and fall as a global species. She also explores the many, and often complex, reasons that explain why numbers have plummeted so catastrophically in recent decades.
£14.99 [ref: 54613]
Falk, S. Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland. British Wildlife Field Guide.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. British Wildlife Publishing. 2015 pp.432 with colour photographs & over 1,000 colour and b/w. illustrations by Richard Lewington. 8vo. New softback. RRP £35.00.
Highly recommended. Provides the most recent information on the identification, ecology, status and distribution of all 275 bee species in Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands.
£31.50 [ref: 58298]
Farjon, Aljos. Ancient Oaks in the English Landscape.
1st. Ed. Pub. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017 pp.348 with 190 colour photographs, colour & b/w. illus., and tables. 4to. New hardback. Highly recommended.
England has more ancient native oak trees than the rest of Europe combined. In ‘Ancient Oaks In the English Landscape’, Aljos Farjon combines history with science and tells the story of how ancient oaks have shaped the English landscape over the past 1,000 years.
£30.00 [ref: 52733]
Ffrench, R. A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago.
2nd. Ed. Helm. 2003 pp.xx, 426 illus. in colour. 8vo. A new softback, gently bumped top rear corner of text block. RRP £35.00.
£20.00 [ref: 31395]
Fitter, J. Field Guide to the Wildlife of New Zealand.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Bloomsbury. 2014 pp.276 with colour photographs throughout. 8vo. Very well illustrated. A new softback. RRP £16.99.
An excellent pocket guide. Considers birds, mammals, amphibians & reptiles, insects, the seashore, botany including alpine plants, lichens and herbs.
£15.50 [ref: 42812]
Fleischmann, A. Monograph of the Genus Genlisea.
1st. Ed. Pub. Redfern Natural History. 2013 pp.727 with colour and b/w. photos. throughout. Large 8vo. New hardback in new dw.
The first complete monograph of all 29 species of Genlisea. Also known as corkscrew plants, Genlisea produce underground leaves that act as traps to capture and kill micro-organisms. Included are many obscure species never before photographed or documented, and one new taxon that is described and introduced for the first time.
£35.00 [ref: 59866]
Forsman, Dick. Flight Identification of Raptors of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
1st. Ed. Pub. Helm. 2016 pp.544 with 1,095 colour photos., & 7 colour & b/w. illustrations. Royal 8vo. New hardback.
This is a photographic guide with stunning images, most of which have been reserved for ‘Flight Identification of Raptors of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East’ and have never been published before. The thorough text covers every plumage and age in detail, and each species is illustrated with a range of photographs covering all the principal plumages.
£45.00 [ref: 53650]