Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Animals

In her comprehensive and carefully crafted book, Gisela Kaplan demonstrates how intelligent and emotional Australian birds can be. She describes complex behaviours such as grieving, deception, problem solving and the use of tools. Many Australian birds cooperate and defend each other, and excepti...

An alphabetical reference book on the origins and meanings of common group bird names, from accentor to zeledonia. A cornucopia of engaging facts and anecdotes, this superbly-researched compendium presents a wealth of incisive entries alongside stunning photos by the author and beautiful historic...

Bird Talk delves into new scientific developments to reveal the complexities of how birds make, learn, and use sound in a bewildering array of songs and calls. The beauty of birdsong is one of the joys of nature, and this book reveals how songs are learned and performed, why the quality of a male...

Global in scope, this encyclopaedia features a photographic catalogue of more than 1,270 bird species, making it a must-have for every avian enthusiast The diversity and drama of the bird world is brought to breathtaking life in an encyclopaedic new edition This photographic guide to every bird o...

"There is the mammal way and there is the bird way." This is one scientist's pithy distinction between mammal brains and bird brains -- two ways to make a highly intelligent mind. But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at ...

A thoroughly entertaining personal account of the author's birding expeditions to some of Australia's very special islands. She hasn't attempted to include every one of the 8,371 islands of Australia but she has visited the country's most extreme islands: the most southerly (Macquarie), the most ...

Fine art photographer Leila Jeffreys captures the beauty and diversity of some of our most colourful and elegant feathered friends. In Birdland, Australian fine-art photographer Leila Jeffreys presents us with a bird-watching experience like no other, drawing birds out from their leafy shadows an...

A window on the world of birders - obsessive, passionate, quirky, and always interesting. Like bird watching itself, reading Birdmania is filled with surprises and a sense of discovery. But in this collection it is the watchers, not the birds, who are on display - ornithologists and bird lovers o...

A sweeping and lyrical history of the relationship between birdlife and humankind over twelve millennia, exploring how birds have captured our imaginations and inspired our culture and our science. In Birds and Us award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzlin...