Parkin, David T. & Knox, Alan G. The Status of Birds in Britain & Ireland.
1st. Ed. Pub. Helm. 2010 pp.440 with colour photos. 4to. A new hdbk., in new dw. RRP £50.00.
£40.00 [ref: 50651]

Pearman, M. & Areta, J.I. Birds of Argentina and the South-West Atlantic. Helm Field Guides.
1st. Ed. Pub. Helm. 2020 pp.480 with 199 colour plates, b/w. illus and dist. maps. 8vo. New softback. RRP £40.00.
With 1,075 species fully illustrated and described, this work includes 199 colour plates, with concise identification text on facing pages. The coverage includes the islands of the South Atlantic, such as the Falklands.
£35.00 [ref: 59367]

Pearman, M. & Areta, J.I. Birds of Argentina and the South-West Atlantic. Helm Field Guides.
1st. Ed. Pub. Helm. 2020 pp.480 with 199 colour plates, b/w. illus and dist. maps. 8vo. New hardback. RRP £60.00.
With 1,075 species fully illustrated and described, this work includes 199 colour plates, with concise identification text on facing pages. The coverage includes the islands of the South Atlantic, such as the Falklands.
£50.00 [ref: 59368]

Penteriani, V. & del Mar Delgado, M. The Eagle Owl.
1st. Ed. Pub. Poyser. 2019 pp.384 with colour and b/w. photos., maps and figs. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. RRP £60.00.
The definitive work on Europe's largest and most spectacular owl.
£55.00 [ref: 57348]

Peterken, G. Meadows. British Wildlife Collection No. 2.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. British Wildlife Publishing. 2018 pp.431 with 250 colour & b/w. photos and illus. 4to. New hardback in new dw. RRP £40.00.
Highly recommended. ‘Meadows’, the second volume of a major new series of books on British natural history, provides one of the most wide-ranging and eloquent treatments of this quintessential British habitat.
£36.00 [ref: 54852]

Peterken, George. Trees and Woodlands British Wildlife Collection No. 12.
1st. Ed. Pub. Bloomsbury. 2023 pp.416 with colour photos. and illus. 4to. New hardback in new dw. RRP £40.00.
In ‘Trees and Woodlands’, George Peterken brings together decades of scientific research, while also incorporating his personal experiences, to explore the ecology, nature conservation and wider cultural value of our native trees and shrubs, and the various ways they have combined as woodland.
£36.00 [ref: 64294]

Phillips, N. A Guide to Finding Seashore & Rockpool Life in Somerset.
1st. Ed. Pub. Pisces. 2015 pp.73 with many delightfully vivid colour photographs throughout. New softback.
With such excellent photography, this guide would be of use to all those interested in this subject no matter where they live.
£5.95 [ref: 48534]

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Phillips, Nigel. The Nature of the Quantocks. A landscape of heath, mire & wooded combes.
1st. Ed. Pub. Pisces. 2025 pp.viii, 248 with col. photographs throughout. 4to. New hardback.
An intimate mixture of hilltop heathland, oak woodland set in deep combes, and many fast-flowing streams, combine to create the Quantock Hills National Landscape, Somerset. The book covers the well-known flowering plants and ferns, birdlife and mammals of these magnificent hills. It also explores lesser- known wildlife with chapters on mosses and liverworts, fungi and lichens, and invertebrates.
£36.50 [ref: 71334]

Pickford, P & B. & Tarboton, W. African Birds of Prey.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cornell Univ. Press. 1990 pp.227 with coloured photographs. 4to. New hardback in new dw. ever so slightly faded on front. Out-of-print.
Africa is the home to a diversity of birds of prey, from eagles to hawks, falcons and kites, to vultures and owls. The authors capture the essence of 82 species with coloured photographs to match.
£20.00 [ref: 49908]

Porter, Mike (and Crellin, John (Ed.)). Flora of Brecknockshire.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Crellin. 2026 pp.544 with 43 colour paintings, 14 illustrations, 1100 maps & 400 colour photographs. 4to. New hardback.
The first modern Flora of Brecknockshire, Watsonian vice county 42, covering the ceremonial county of Breconshire, now largely in the larger modern county Powys, plus extra land mainly to the south that was historically in the county. Presents the records of the flora of the county over 60 years gathered by Mike Porter. Mike also researched the historical records from 1666, particularly covering the early interest in the county from late Victorian botanists, principally Augustin Ley, vicar of Sellack in Herefordshire.
£40.00 [ref: 72292]