The World of Birds is a groundbreaking guide to every aspect of bird life and a complete survey of the world's orders and families of birds. Written by eminent natural history expert Jonathan Elphick and with special photography from award-winning wildlife photographer David Tipling, it is the ultim[...]

This remarkably beautiful volume gathers together a selection of the most important and vibrant ornithological art from London's Natural History Museum. Birds tells the remarkable story of the development of ornithological art through the ages, from the earliest images of birds in the Renaissance, t[...]

Features bird photographs. This work features a 300-word mini-essay on each bird that catches the characteristics of each bird and, with the help of thumbnail colour maps, pinpoints its distribution and rarity status.[...]