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LONDON AREA
Browse a range of New and used Avifauna for the London area, including Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey
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The Birds of London
The parks, reservoirs, rooftops and gardens of London - here defined as the area within 20 miles of St Paul's Cathedral - have a surprisingly rich avifauna, including a healthy population of one of Britain's rarest breeders, the Black Redstart. The region also has a remarkable list of rarities - in recent years Canary Wharf has proven to be a magnet for vagrants, while one of the very few British records of Tengmalm's Owl hails from Plaistow - an unfortunate bird stoned to death by local urchins in 1877.
Bird-watching in London: A Historical Perspective
Max Nicholson's personal account of bird-watching in inner London in the mid 1920s based on his own observations. Separate chapters cover ducks & gulls flylines over London the birds of Kensington Gardens & Hyde Park (with updated appendix) & bird protection in London. The front cover also includes a colour illustration by Charles Tunnicliffe. c220pp 1995 LNHS
The park hosts common woodland birds including Treecreeper, Ring-necked Parakeet, Stock Dove, Tawny Owl, Green, Great and possible Lesser Spotted woodpecker....
London wetlands Centre
The award winning London Wetland Centre is the first project of its kind in the world - more than 40 hectares of created wetlands in the heart of a capital city......
Brent Reservoir
The Brent reservoir, or 'Welsh Harp' as it is more commonly known, is situated on the borders of the London boroughs of Brent and Barnet.....
Crossness Nature Reserve
Crossness Nature Reserve is in Bexley, South East London. It offers the last remaining areas of grazing marshland within the Greater London area, and the wildlife and habitats associated with it.
One of very few ancient landscapes remaining in London, these medieval marshes right next to the River Thames were closed to the public for over 100 years and used as a military firing range.....
Walthamstow Wetlands
Walthamstow Reservoirs are owned and managed by Thames Water and consist of ten shallow basins with some wooded islands. The Reservoirs are bordered with grassland, scrub and by Walthamstow Marsh to the south...
Bird Life in the Royal Parks
The birds of the London area
Birdwatching London: All the Best Places to See Birds in the Capital
From pigeons to parakeets, it s impossible not to notice birds in London. But how many more would you see if you knew where to look? Can you really see a striking black-and-white wader like the Avocet, or a graceful bird of prey like a Marsh Harrier or a shy reedbed-dwelling Bittern . . . within Greater London? Did you know Peregrine Falcons nest at Battersea Power Station, or that 100 species have been logged at Hampstead Heath in one year? Now, this wonderful guide book details the best places all round the capital for watching birds, from woodlands to wetlands, parks to post-industrial backwaters.
The London Bird Atlas
The London area has a fantastic range of bird species, from the rare Black Redstart to the humble Feral Pigeon and the exotic Ring-necked Parakeet. Published jointly with The London Natural History Society, this atlas contains records of 200 species that were observed in the region, covering an area within 20 miles (or approximately 32km) of St Paul's Cathedral. The atlas documents the breeding and wintering distribution of the birds in the area and identifies changes in distribution since the previous two breeding atlases of the London area, in 1968-72 and 1988-94. A full introduction describes the methodology and this is followed by illustrated species accounts, each with up to five maps covering breeding distribution; breeding abundance; breeding change; winter distribution and winter abundance.
The Parakeeting of London
In case you hadn’t noticed, the skies of London have been taken over by flocks of bright-green parakeets. This is a fact. And the amazing thing is nobody knows how they got here. The Parakeeting of London, writer Nick Hunt and photographer Tim Mitchell – self-declared gonzo ornithologists – track the progress of the parakeets from park to cemetery to riverbank, meeting Londoners from all walks of life who share their thoughts, opinions and theories on these incongruous avian invaders. Did Jimi Hendrix release them in 1968? Did they escape from a set during the filming of The African Queen? Are they anything to do with climate change? And, most importantly, are they here to stay? Nick Hunt is the author of two highly regarded travel books.
AS FEATURED ON BBC LONDON NEWS. Take four seasons, one photographer, eighty species, hundreds of miles on foot in a city of ten million people and through intimate and captivating portraits meet London's wild neighbours. London is not just a city of ten million people, it is also home to an extraordinary diversity of beautiful wildlife. With world population exploding and more and more countryside being lost to urban sprawl or commercial agriculture, the sharing of urban space with nature is more important than ever. To achieve this, we have to preserve and increase the green and blue spaces in our cities and see and love the wildlife that we already have.
Where to Watch Birds in the London Area
This is one of a series of guides on birdwatching in different regions. It contains site accounts, plans, maps, lists of birds in the region, and advice on planning birdwatching trips. The book covers every key site from the Central London parks to the marshes of the Thames, and the wetlands and reservoirs of the Colne and Lee Valleys. It also covers advice about habitat, the birds most likely to be seen, when to visit to see which species of bird, and how to get there, including full public transport information."
Birds in London by William Henry Hudson
This early work by William Henry Hudson was originally published in 1898 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory essay. 'Birds in London' gives a compelling account of bird life in London, beautifully illustrated by Bryan Hook and A. D. McCormick. William Henry Hudson was born in 1841 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist. He spent his youth studying native plants and animals, resulting in the publication of 'Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society'. In the early 1870s, Hudson settled in England and achieved fame with his books on the English countryside, including 'Hampshire Day' (1903), 'Afoot in England' (1909) and 'A Shepherd's Life' (1910), which were considered to have influenced the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s and 1930s
Birds in London
The Thames Transformed. London's River And Its Waterfowl
Publisher : Andre Deutsch; 1st edition (4 Nov. 1976)
London Bird Report 1993
ASIN : B001LA2WJ0
THE BIRDS OF THE LONDON AREA SINCE 1900
Birds Of The Green Belt and The Country Around London
The London Bird Report No. 29 (for 1964)
The breeding birds of the London area
New Naturalist Monograph No. 14 THE BIRDS OF THE LONDON AREA
The Bird-Life Of London
Within An Hour of London Town Among Wild Birds and Their Haunts
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Browse a range of New and used Avifauna for the English county of Buckinghamshire.
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Birds of Buckinghamshire
This book is the first comprehensive account of the birds of Buckinghamshire. It covers every species that has been recorded in the county to the end of 1991. Dot maps of breeding distribution are shown for most of the breeding species, and are the result of a six year survey of the county's breeding birds. Graphs of seasonal and annual occurrence are shown for many of the rarer species. Wildfowl counts are also displayed graphically. Reasons for changing populations are discussed using the results of the latest research, and give a picture of the altering conditions within the county. Introductory chapters include the history of birdwatching in Buckinghamshire from the Domesday Book to the present day, and a comprehensive account of the habitats within the county.
Birds around Milton Keynes
One of a series of in-depth guides to birdwatching in different regions. Each book contains site accounts, plans, maps, lists of birds in the region and advice on planning birdwatching trips. This is a book on birds in Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Herefordshire and Oxfordshire counties, rich areas for birdwatching, each with a wide variety of sites. Three local experts have drawn together the best of these sites to offer a comprehensive and unique guide to birdwatching in this region. This edition has been thoroughly revised with new maps, sites and totally re-written site accounts.
Once an old clay extraction pit for the brick industry, Calvert Jubilee has become a haven for large numbers of over-wintering wildfowl and waders as well as breeding birds including nightingale....
College Lake Wildlife Centre
College Lake Wildlife Centre was a 200 acre disused chalk quarry. It is now a unique nature reserve managed by the Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.....
Church Wood RSPB Reserve
This small reserve forms part of the extensive Chiltern woodlands and is a mixture of beech, ash, oak and hazel coppice. Woodpeckers, nuthatches and blackcaps....
SURREY
Browse a range of New and used Avifauna for the English county of Surrey.
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Birds of Surrey
This is a book in which the author looks beyond the perception that Surrey is an overcrowded county with little space for birdlife. He reveals an attractive county of compact and contrasting landscapes governed by abrupt variations in the underlying geology.
There is a corresponding and impressive diversity of birdlife, across a biological recording area that stretches from South London and the Thames to the Weald. The inclusion of Spelthorne in modern Surrey provides additional reservoir groups with their associated waterfowl.
Birds around Surrey
Publisher : Derek Belsey (30 Sept. 2002)
The south-eastern corner of England is a densely populated region but one which holds many rich bird habitats. For example, on the south coast of East Sussex and Kent there are undisturbed shingle beaches supporting nationally important tern colonies, and inland there are Surrey heaths, important for many nationally scarce species like Dartford Warbler and Woodlark. In north Kent there is a network of important sites along the Swale estuary which are of great importance for passage and wintering waders and wildfowl. These counties also often attract large numbers of passage migrants, including vagrant rarities from the continent.
The Birds of Croydon and Its Countryside
Surrey Bird Atlas 2007-2012
The Atlas describes in 400 A4 pages the distribution and population density of 250 species found in Surrey during surveys carried out by volunteers between 2007 and 2012. It shows how these species have fared in the county since the last surveys were carried out between 1988 and 1997.
BERKSHIRE
Browse a range of New and used Avifauna for the English county of Berkshire.
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The Birds of Berkshire: Atlas and Avifauna
The Birds of Berkshire is a complete and up-to-date account of the county's birds, covering all 330 species recorded in the county. It includes maps derived from the results of the second Berkshire bird atlas survey, undertaken by over 400 volunteers between 2007 and 2011, showing the distribution and abundance of breeding species and winter visitors. Changes since the first survey between 1987 and 1989 and other changes in status are discussed in the context of national trends and changes in habitat, land management and climate
Birds of Berkshire
Provides a comprehensive summary of every species that has occurred in the county since records began. It also contains the results of a breeding bird survey undertaken by over 200 fieldworkers over a period of three years. Each bird is illustrated by one of a group of 34 leading bird artists & each account is accompanied by a distribution map & status details. Black & white line drawings.
The Birds of Berkshire and Oxfordshire
The Birds of Berkshire. Annual Report 2009
The Birds of Berkshire. Annual Reports 2006
An annotated list of the birds of Berkshire
The Birds of Berkshire: Annual Report for the year 2005
The Birds of Berkshire: Annual Report for the year 2004
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