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Books about birds of GB
Field guides & handbooks 2000 to present | 1950 to 1999 | 1900 to 1949 | 19th century | Bird song ID | Atlases | Rare bird guides |
Birdwatching guides | Helm Where To Watch Birds | Helm County Avifaunas | Buck. Press Best Birdwatching Sites | Bird Observatories
Garden Birds | Gardening for birds | Garden nestboxes

Bird books by region of GB
England : Beds | Berks | Bucks | Camb | Chesh | Cornwall | Cumbria | Derbys | Devon | Dorset | Durham | Essex | Gloucs | Hamps | Heref | Herts | I. of Wight | I. of Scilly | Kent | Lancs | Leics | Lincs | London | Merseyside | Norfolk | Northants | Northumb | Notts | Oxon | Rutland | Shrops | Somerset | Staffs | Suffolk | Surrey | Sussex | Warws | West Mid | Wilts | Worcs | Yorks
Wales (All) | Anglesey | Mid-Wales | N. Wales | S. Wales | Pembrokeshire
Scotland (All) | Argyll | Ayrshire | Borders | Dumf & Gall | Fair Isle | Fife | Grampian | Inner Hebrides | Orkney | Outer Hebrides | Shetland |
Isle of Man

Bird books by organisations
RSPB | BTO | BOU | BirdLife Int. | Wildlife Trusts

Reference and miscellaneous
Dictionaries | Encyclopedias | Bird names | Shakespeare's birds | Bird poetry anthologies | History of Ornithology | Stamps
Books about British species
Auks | Avocet | Bee-eater | Bittern | Blackbird | Buntings | Buzzards | Chats | Chough | Coot | Cormorant | Crakes | Cranes | Crows | Cuckoo | Curlew | Dipper | Divers | Dotterel | Ducks | Dunlin | Dunnock | Eagles | Egrets | Fieldfare | Finches | Flycatchers | Fulmar | Gannet | Geese | G. Oriole | Goshawk | Grebes | Greenshank | Grouse | Gulls | Harriers | Herons | Hobby | Jay | Kestrel | Kingfisher | Knot | Lapwing | Larks | Magpie | Martins | Merlin | Mistle Thrush | Moorhen | Nightingale | Nuthatch | Osprey | Owls | Oystercatcher | Partridges | Peregrine | Petrels | Pheasant | Pigeons | Pipits | Plovers | Puffin | Quail | Rails | Raven | Red Kite | Redshank | Redstarts | Redwing | Ring Ouzel | Robin | Rook | Ruff | Sanderling | Shearwaters | Shrikes | Skuas | Snipe | Song Thrush | Sparrowhawk | Sparrows | Starlings | Stone Curlew | Swallows | Swans | Swift | Terns | Tits | Treecreeper | Wagtails | Warblers | Wheatear | Woodcock | Woodpeckers | Wren
Raptors | Seabirds | Waders | Wildfowl

Books about world species/families
Albatrosses | Birds Of Paradise | Bowerbirds | Broadbills | Bustards | Cardinals | Cockatoos | Condors | Cotinga | Curassows | Darwin's Finches | Egrets | Fairy-Wrens | Flamingos | Herons | Honeyguides | Hornbills | Hummingbirds | Ibis | Jacamars | Kakapo | Kea | Kiwis | Kookaburra | Manakin | Megapodes | New World Blackbirds | Ostrich | Owls | Pelicans | Penguins | Pittas | Storks | Sunbirds | Tanagers | Todies | Toucans | Trogons | Turacos | Vultures | Warblers (New World) | Woodpeckers

Books about extinct species
Dodo | Carolina Parakeet | Great Auk | Mihirungs | Moas | Pass. Pigeon | Extinct Birds

Ornithological subjects
Anatomy | Brood Parasitism | Climate | Colour | Cooperative breeding | Evolution | Feathers | Flight | Fossils / Origins | Migration | Nest construction | Song | Speciation | Taxonomy

Academic publications
Ornith. Monographs | Studies In Avian Biol | Current Ornith. | OUP Ornith. Series | OUP Avian Biol | OUP Ecol & Evolution | OUP Tech. in Ecol. & Consv. | Monographs in Pop. Biology | Monographs in Behavoir & Ecology

Publishers
Arlequin | Buckingham | Cambridge UP | Collins | Cornell UP | Falcon Press | Helm | Isabelline | Langford Press | Lone Pine | Lynx | New Holland | OUP | Pica | Poyser | Princeton UP | UT Press | Whittles | Wren

Series
Animal (Reaktion) | Hamlyn Bird Behav. | Hamlyn Species Gds | King Penguin | Ladybird 536 series | New Naturalist | Penguin Nat. Gds | Shire Nat. Hist. | Whittet British Nat. Hist.

Authors
Richard Fitter | Richard Mabey | Derek Ratcliffe | Eric Simms

Art/Artists books
General bird art | Keith Brockie | John Busby | Eric Ennion | Lars Jonsson | Bruce Pearson | Chris Rose | Michael Warren | Donald Watson

Birdwatchers
Twitchers/Listers/Big years
Books about birds of the world
Handbooks/guides | Atlases | Rare birds | Checklists | Bird Fams Of The World | Hdbk of Birds of the World | Hamlyn Where To Watch Birds | Helm Where To Watch Birds | Helm Field Guides | Arlequin Guides | Lynx Guides | Prion Guides | Crossbill Guides | New Holland Photo. Guides

Bird books by area of the world
Europe (All) | Bulgaria | Finland | France | Greece | Hungary | Iceland | Ireland | Italy | Norway | Poland | Portugal | Spain | Sweden
Atlantic | Ascension Island | Azores | Bermuda | Canaries | Cape Verde | Falklands | Madeira | South Georgia | St. Helena | Tristan Da Cunha
Caribbean (All) | Anguilla | Antigua and Barbuda | Aruba | Bahamas | Barbados | Bonaire | Caymans | Cuba | Curaçao | Dominican Republic | Grenada | Haiti | Jamaica | Martinique | Montserrat | Puerto Rico | St Lucia | Trinidad/Tobago | Turks and Caicos | Virgin Islands
North America | Canada (All) | USA (All) | Alabama | Arizona | California | Colorado | Delaware | Florida | Idaho | Indiana | Kansas | Kentucky | Maine | Maryland | Missouri | Montana | New Mexico | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Tennessee | Texas | Vermont | Virginia
Central America (All) | Belize | Costa Rica | El Salvador | Guatemala | Honduras | Mexico | Nicaragua | Panama
South America (All) | Argentina | Bolivia | Brazil | Chile | Colombia | Ecuador | French Guiana | Guyana | Paraguay | Peru | Suriname | Uruguay | Venezuela
Pacific | Fiji | Hawaii | New Caledonia | Palau | Solomon Islands | Tonga | Vanuatu
Asia (All) | Bhutan | Cambodia | China | Japan | Laos | Nepal | S. Korea | Singapore | Thailand | Vietnam
Africa (All) | Gambia | Ghana | Kenya | Senegal | Tanzania
Australasia : Australia | New Zealand |
Rest of world : Mauritius | Réunion | Seychelles

Last updated January 2012