Bird Lover’s Puzzle Book
£12.99Embark on a brain-teasing journey across continents with puzzles inspired by bird species from around the world.
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Stuff Every Bird Lover Should Know
£9.99This pocket-sized guide is the perfect gift for birdwatchers, bird owners, and anyone fascinated by our feathered friends
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The Social Lives of Birds
£22.00Birds, like most of us, are social creatures. In groups they can do things they’d never be able to do alone. Be that evading predators or raising young, together birds collaborate, cooperate and connect. But every group has its conflicts, and living together can come with a cost. Competing for food, mates and nests, life in a group can be hard and sometimes dangerous. From nest hijacking and thievery to seduction, dancing and secret relationships, ‘The Social Lives of Birds’ discovers the various ways birds socialise. Revealing the different types of bird groups and the ornithologists who study them, professor of biology and birder Joan E. Strassmann combines the latest research on and her own experiences of birds navigating social dilemmas.
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Bird Spotter
£12.99A fast-paced spotting game for bird lovers: On any two cards there is only one bird in common. The aim of the game is to be the first person to find it!
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The Place of Tides
£10.99One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old lady on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. Hers was a centuries-old trade that had once made men and women rich, but had long been in decline. Still, somehow, she seemed to be hanging on. Back at home, Rebanks couldn’t stop thinking about her. She was fierce and otherworldly – and yet strangely familiar. Years passed. Then, one day, he wrote her a letter, asking if he could return. Bring work clothes, she replied, and good boots, and come quickly: her health was failing. He travelled to the edge of the Arctic to witness her last season on the island. Slowly, he began to understand that this woman and her world were not at all what he’d previously thought. What began as a journey of escape became an extraordinary lesson in self-knowledge and forgiveness.
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The Cuckoo’s Lea
£20.00An enthralling exploration of the significance of birds and place through Britain’s history.
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Bird school
£22.00‘A feast for mind and soul, a treasure trove of insights into the enigmatic and enchanting world of the birds we share our lives with but barely notice. I have learnt so much. Every page is a thrill. Bird School has opened my eyes’ Isabella Tree, author of Wilding
Step into the hide for a glorious new encounter with the British wild
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This will last forever
£14.99The humble snowdrops of January, the tentative sun of April, the heady scent of August. As each season passes the woman retraces her path through the landscape, befriending the birds she meets along the way. With every tender encounter, from blackbird to bluetit, she grows closer to nature, and to herself.
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The curious life of the cuckoo
£9.99Is there any bird more mysterious than the cuckoo? It is invariably heard, and not seen. And if seen, it is mistaken for a sharp-winged hawk. The female cuckoo – by a trick that borders on alchemy – is able to disguise its egg as another’s. In Greek myth the god Zeus assumed the form of a cuckoo to seduce Hera. But we forgive the cuckoo its con-artistry, because it is the true herald of spring. It is the bird that uplifts our wintered hearts, with that first two-note ‘cuk-koo’ unmistakable as it sounds across the country. John Lewis-Stempel explains one of nature’s greatest enigmas in vivid, lyrical prose, and celebrates this iconic bird.
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The company of owls
£16.99As the autumn nights draw in, join Polly Atkin in a nocturnal love song to the owls that surround her Lake District home – a stunning meditation on learning to listen in a world full of noise.
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Mindfulness in bird watching
£12.99Mindfulness in Bird Watching explores how cultivating a deeper awareness of nature’s songsters is a natural focus for practicing mindfulness meditation every day.?