Product Description: Birds are inspirational subjects for any artist: the variety of shapes, colors, sizes, movements, and contexts means that anyone with an interest in drawing or painting from life will find birds challenging and deserving of their time...read more

This volume comprises Kenneth C. Steven's best-known wildlife and landscape poems to date, following on from his previous volume 'Iona'.

Product Description: Beautifully illustrated and magnificently comprehensive, The Penguins is the most authoritative guide on the subject available. Restricted to the Southern Hemisphere (but abundant in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions), the Penguins are highly specialized marine divers, spending much of their lives at sea...read more

Product Description: A description of the birds which live in and visit Shetland, detailing their natural habitats, breeding patterns and migrations. The author has visited the migratory homes of various species, and passes on his observations. He also wrote "Bobby Tulloch's Shetland".

Product Description: This book is an investigation of the complex relationship between both diurnal and nocturnal birds and the particular environments that they inhabit from dusk to dawn. This study of nocturnality in birds encompasses field ornithology, sensory science, ecology and physics, and involves comparisons of the sensory capacities of other animal species...read more

Nature photography and artwork highlight this study of the behavior, life cycle, and habits of a wild otter and her cubs, living on the rugged coastline of the Shetland Islands

Product Description: A guide for the birder or naturalist embarking on a holiday in Mallorca with illustrations of the island by the author. It examines all parts of Mallorca with regional accounts from the Salinas de Levant's saltpans in the south, to the northern Sierras and the coast and back lanes of Cala D'Or...read more

Product Description: Pp. 128, numerous fine color drawings, black-and-white drawings and pencil sketches. Publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, 4to (11.25 x 8 inches). The volume presents a selection of the original paintings and field sketches made by the great wildlife artist, Eric Ennion...read more