nhbs monthly catalogue new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2006/09 September 2006 www.nhbs.com [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913 Welcome to the September Monthly Catalogue, the most comprehensive buyer's guide Zoology: to new and forthcoming titles in natural history, conservation and the environment. Mammals Birds Summer Clearance Sale Reptiles & Amphibians Summer is on its way out, and so is our clearance sale! We have reduced prices by up to 80% on hundreds of titles across our subject range! Fishes In many cases, there is only one copy left - to secure the best bargain books, order Invertebrates now online by email, phone, fax or post. View the full NHBS Summer Clearance Palaeontology catalogue here. 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We are usually able to offer competitive packages - please contact [email protected] to discuss what we can offer. The NHBS Team View this Monthly Catalogue as a web page or save/print it as a .pdf document. Mammals Go to subject web page Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone 256 pages | Illus, maps | Lyons Press D Smith Hbk | 2005 | 159228700X | #153687A | The Yellowstone Wolf Project, has so far released thirty-one Canadian grey wolves into £17.95 BUY Yellowstone National Park. .... Pbk | NYP 12/2006 | 1592288863 | #162054A | £12.99 BUY A Guide to the Identification of Prey Remains in Otter Spraints 52 pages | Illus | Mammal Society JWH Conroy, J Watt, JB Webb and A Jones Pbk | 2005 | 0906282551 | #156807A | Fully illustrated key to fish bones found in otter spraints. .... £3.50 BUY Mamiferos de Argentina - Sistematica y Distribucion 365 pages | SAREM Edited by Ruben Barquez, Monica Diaz and Ricardo Ojeda NYP 10/2006 | #162063A | £35.00 BUY This book constitutes an important and updated contribution to the knowledge of the mammals of Argentina, including a panorama of the systematics and distribution of all .... Stadtfüchse 189 pages | 143 colour photos, 20 Ein Wildtier erobert den Siedlungsraum diagrams | Paul Haupt Verlag Sandra Gloor, Fabio Bontadina and Daniel Hegglin Pbk | 2006 | 325807030X | #161770A | How do wild foxes survive in a large city? This book presents the results of a ten-year research £26.50 BUY project in the city of Zurich. .... Water Vole Conservation Handbook 73 pages | Col and b/w photos, illus, Rob Strachan figs | Wild Cru Water voles are small burrowing rodents, which are associated with all kinds of water bodies. Pbk | 2006 | #157383A | £30.00 BUY This handbook aims to improve the understanding and awareness of the .... Birds Go to subject web page Arizona & New Mexico Birds Lone Pine Kurt Radamaker and Gregory Kennedy Pbk | NYP 03/2007 | 9768200286 | #161280A | £8.50 BUY The Atlas of Chick Development 323 pages | 100 plates, 62 line illus | Ruth Bellairs and Mark Osmond Academic Press The chick embryo has long occupied a special place among developmental biologists for both Hbk | 2005 | 0120847914 | #161804A | research and teaching. In recent years, its popularity has been extended to .... £90.00 BUY The Avifauna of an Upland Seasonal Woodland in Central Kenya 276 pages | ZFMAK Ecology, Behavior, Breeding Pbk | 2006 | 3925382577 | #161049A | Lester L Short and Jennifer FM Horne £78.00 BUY Bird Songs 368 pages | colour illus | Chronicle Books 250 North American Birds in Song Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 1932855416 | Les Beletsky #161688A | £35.00 BUY Drawing from the collection of the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Bird Songs presents the most notable North American birds-including .... Birds and Climate Change 259 pages | Figs, tabs | Academic Press Edited by Anders Moller, Wolfgang Fiedler and P Berthold Hbk | 2004 | 0120139359 | #153134A | Temperature and other climate variables are currently changing at a dramatic rate. As £99.95 BUY observations have shown, these climatic changes have serious consequences for all .... Pbk | 2006 | 0123736145 | #161790A | £28.99 BUY Birds of the Carolinas 408 pages | Colour photos | North E Potter, J Parnell and R Teulings Carolina UP A total of 415 species are identified with information on range, feeding and nesting habits. Hbk | 2006 | 0807829994 | #162068A | Many good colour photographs. .... £18.50 BUY Pbk | 2006 | 0807856711 | #162069A | £12.95 BUY China Endemic Birds 640 pages | colour photos, distribution Edited by Lei Fumin and Lu Taichun maps | Science Press This monograph includes General Description of Birds, Endemism in Chinese Birds and Species Hbk | 2006 | 7030145127 | #162167A | Accounts. The species account section deals with 105 endemic species which .... £95.00 BUY Collins Birds of the World 482 pages | Harper Collins Every bird family illustrated and explained Hbk | NYP 04/2007 | 0007242360 | Les Beletsky #160648A | £25.00 BUY This stunning book captures the grace and beauty of the world's birds. In more than 500 pages, ornithologist Les Beletsky has gathered over 1,600 original paintings that reveal .... Collins Guide to the Birds of Prey of Britain and Europe with North 416 pages | photos, distribution maps, Africa and the Middle East illus | Harper Collins Hbk | NYP 04/2007 | 0007248148 | Benny Gensbol and Walther Thiede #161721A | £30.00 BUY About the first edition: .... The Grail Bird 272 pages | Col photos, col illus, maps | Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Houghton Mifflin Tim Gallagher Hbk | 2005 | 0618456937 | #153920A | The author takes up the chase of an extinct, or at least elusive bird, heading deep into the £17.95 BUY trackless Southern swamps and bayous to determine once and for all if the .... Pbk | 2006 | 061870941X | #161922A | £9.95 BUY Hawaii's Birds 144 pages | 150 col photos, tabs, maps Hawaii Audubon Society | Hawaii Audubon Field guide with detailed descriptions of native, introduced, and migratory birds that are found Pbk | 2005 | 1889708003 | #161669A | in Hawaii. Includes maps that show popular birding sites on the islands of .... £11.95 BUY A History of Somerset Birds 372 pages | 40 colour plates, 2 maps | David Ballance Isabelline Books This new Somerset avifauna is the first since 1988. Written in clear, engaging language, it Hbk | 2006 | 0955278708 | #162088A | covers the birds of the post-1974 County from the earliest times to the end of 2004, .... £44.00 BUY Pbk | 2006 | 0955278716 | #162089A | £24.00 BUY Limnology and Aquatic Birds 335 pages | - | Springer Proceedings of the Fourth Conference Working Group on Aquatic Birds of Societas Hbk | 2006 | 1402051670 | #161694A | Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL), Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, August 3-7, £96.00 BUY 2003 Edited by Alan R Hanson and Joseph J Kerekes The importance of habitat conservation for the protection of birds has become widely acknowledged and accepted by natural resource managers and the general public. Papers .... Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion 736 pages | Houghton Mifflin A comprehensive resource for identifying North American Birds Hbk | 2006 | 0618236481 | #161923A | Peter Dunne £19.95 BUY In this book, bursting with more information than any field guide could hold, the well-known author and birder Pete Dunne introduces readers to the "Cape May School of .... Return of the Condor 256 pages | colour illus | Lyons Press The Race to Save Our Largest Bird from Extinction Hbk | NYP 12/2006 | 1592289495 | John Moir #162056A | £18.95 BUY During the 1980's the condor population in America was down to only twenty-two individuals. A team of scientists pursued an unconventional and controversial means to .... Le Roselin Cramoisi (Carpodacus e. erythrinus (Pallas, 1770)) 340 pages | 25 figures, 19 maps, 34 Les Roselins, Leucostictes et espèces affines tables, 7 colour photos | Marcel Ruelle M Ruelle 2005 | #162079A | £40.00 BUY Taxonomy, phylogeny and evolution of the common rosefinch. .... The Shorebird Guide 496 pages | More than 870 colour Richard Crossley, Kevin Karlson and Michael O'Brien photographs | Houghton Mifflin Birders at all levels can learn how to identify shorebirds in North America quickly and simply. Pbk | 2006 | 0618432949 | #161489A | This guide includes more than 870 stunning colour photographs, starting with a .... £17.95 BUY The Singing Life of Birds 448 pages | Houghton Mifflin The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong Hbk | 2006 | 0618405682 | #161921A | Donald Kroodsma £18.50 BUY Listen to birds sing as you've never listened before, as the world-renowned birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma takes you on personal journeys of discovery and intrigue. Read .... The Songs of Wild Birds 128 pages | Houghton Mifflin Lang Elliott Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0618663983 | Birding by ear has become more popular than ever as a way of locating