Category: Book Collections

Arable Bryophytes: A Field Guide to the Mosses, Liverworts and Hornworts of Cultivated Land in Britain and Ireland is now in stock after a long delay in publication. This covers the 81 bryophytes found in arable fields including Illustrated profiles of the 47 bryophytes most closely associated with arable farming, highlighting those included in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan

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Bryophytes of Native Woods: A Field Guide to the Common Mosses and Liverworts of Britain and Ireland’s Woodlands and Mosses and Other Bryophytes: An Illustrated Glossary

The 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibit has just opened at the Natural History Museum in London, and will run until April 2009.

If you can’t make it to London to see this prestigious exhibition, you can enjoy wildlife in your own home.

We carry the popular companion book Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio Eighteen, which features more than 120 stunning images from the competition, selected from 35,000 entries.

 

To see other winning portfolios, browse the Wildlife Photographer of the Year series

The 2009 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Calendar is also available, and is on special offer until 31/12/2008.

You can also browse our wide range of books on Wildlife Photography

The second edition of the definitive identification guide Owls of the World has just been published, and is now in stock at NHBS.

This book, part of the acclaimed Helm Identification Guides series, fully describes every known species and subspecies of owl, and presents the latest evidence on owl taxonomy, based on DNA work and vocalisations. Because voice is vital in owl identification, much emphasis is placed on it in the book and sonograms are provided for many species. A CD of owl vocalisations has been announced for next year.

We have a special offer on this book until 31/12/2008; order your copy now!

For more books on raptors, browse our Birds of Prey subject list.

The latest Checklist of CITES Species, providing the official list of CITES species and resources, is now available on CD-ROM. The 2008 edition has been extensively revised and made more user-friendly, and is trilingual in English, French, and Spanish. The Checklist is only available as a CD and is no longer available in a print edition. This is a key resource for CITES authorities, customs officials, and others involved in implementing and enforcing CITES.

Get your copy now!

You may also be interested in the CITES Handbook (2007)

What is CITES?
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is a voluntary cooperative agreement by the world’s governments to monitor and control the international trade in wild animals and plants. This trade is significant, worth billions of dollars every year.

The CITES agreement aims to improve sustainability and avoid exploitation of resources, and to ensure continued survival in the wild. 28,000 plant species and 5,000 animal species, and the products made from those species, are protected by CITES with three levels of rankings based on the risk of exploitation or extinction.

It’s a very frosty morning here in the UK – perfect weather for unloading hundreds of copies of Handbook of the Birds of the World! Volume 13 is in stock now and copies will be leaving our warehouse to customers from this afternoon.

Information about the Handbook of the Birds of the World can be found on our HBW series page. If you haven’t started your collection of this landmark ornithological series you can catch up with the discounted set of Volumes 1-13.

The NHBS Primatology Catalogue is out! Browse online or download it as a .pdf.

Over 250 key titles in Primatology, Conservation, Ecology and Behaviour. We have also included some field work essentials from our equipment range.

The forthcoming volume of Handbook of Birds of the World (Vol 13: Penduline Tits to Shrikes) is due in stock by the end of October. All HBW customers will be receiving their copies as soon as it is published.

Lynx Editions, the publisher of HBW have also just published The Threatened Amphibians of the World.

We have just launched the latest NHBS Country Guide – to Brazil. The lead title, Birds of Amazonian Brazil is a huge leap forward in the standard of field information available on the birds of Brazil. The ‘standard’ high quality field guide has yet to be published on Brazil’s avifauna, though at least one is in preparation for around 2010. Until then a selection of books address Brazil’s birds on a regional basis, more widely but with average plates, or with excellent quality but only covering non-passerines. There are a wealth of more general travel books, wildlife books and science titles – enjoy our pick of the best!

Check-out other recent NHBS Newsletters: Download our new Bat Detecting Buyers Guide | View the Sept Newsletter

BatBox are about to launch a new frequency division bat detector for just £75. The first frequency division detector at such a low price – the BatBox Baton will enable you to:
Create real time sonograms
Listen to all frequencies simultaneously
Benefit from the FREE BatScan analysis software (included)
Listen in to grasshoppers and crickets

Due out by the end of October – Place your Pre-Order now

Download the new NHBS Bat Buyers Guide

Collins New Naturalist Grouse (Volume 107) has just been published and is in stock at NHBS. Written by Adam Watson and Robert Moss, Grouse provides timely and comprehensive coverage of British Grouse.

The next New Naturalist (Volume 108) in this classic series is Southern England. For a full list of in print and forthcoming New Naturalists Browse our Collins New Naturalist Page. To ensure first editions from the first print run you can set up a standing order with our customer services team.