A First Book of New Zealand Backyard Bird Songs by Gessel, Fred Van
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History
This beautifully illustrated sound guide is the perfect way to introduce both children and adults to the wonders of bird song. Each of the 12 species covered - Morepork, kaka, Sacred Kingfisher, Grey Warbler, Silvereye, Bellbird, Tui, Fantail, Chaffinch, Song Thrush, Blackbird and Starling - has a short ...Show more
New Zealand: A Natural World Revealed by Tui De Roy and Mark Jones
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History
Award-winning international wildlife photographer Tui de Roy spent much of her life living on and photographing the Galapagos Islands before setting up her base in New Zealand. From here, she travels the world capturing breathtaking images of special natural places and the plants and animals that inhabi ...Show more
New Zealand Seabirds: A Natural History by Kerry-Jayne Wilson
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History
New Zealand is the seabird capital of the world - no other country has so many species of breeding seabirds, while about a third of them are only found here. Despite this, many New Zealanders have little awareness of them, or know of the remarkable life histories that enable them to tackle the considera ...Show more
202 Great Walks: The Best Day Walks in New Zealand by Mark Pickering
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History
There is an extraordinary range of landscape and walking challenges in 202 Great Walks. You can saunter by a steaming Rotorua lake, through limestone archways in the King Country, or along an historic Maori trail to the top of the Kaimai Ranges. There is an island sanctuary at Stewart Island, or goldmin ...Show more
The Tui (A5 Version) by Anne Webb ; Neil Page
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History
A pictorial study of New Zealand's colourful endemic bird. This stunning book, produced as a fundraiser for Native Bird Recovery Richmond, showcases the Tui in all its colourful glory. 78 pages of full colour world class photographs and fascinating Tui facts bring to life the bird which is we so often ...Show more
Where Is It In Town? A wildlife hunt for Kiwi kids by Ned Barraud
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
This is a ‘look and find’ book for all children who want to learn about New Zealand’s wildlife, focusing on wildlife that Kiwi kids will encounter in town. Stunningly illustrated by Ned Barraud, each page illustrates a different urban environment, including a garden both in the daytime and at night, th ...Show more
Kakapo: Rescued from the Brink of Extinction by Alison Ballance
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Kakapo follows the fall and rise of one of the world's most unusual birds, from the brink of extinction, through a roller-coaster ride of hope and loss. One of New Zealand's most threatened species, these charismatic yet mysterious night parrots, are now found only on a small number of predator-free isl ...Show more
A Photographic Guide to Mammals of New Zealand by Carolyn M King; Rod Morris
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History | Reading Level: good
This new addition to a popular series delves into a fascinating field of New Zealand's natural history. In prehistory, only a few bats, marine mammals and odd quadrupeds constituted our local land-breeding mammals; but today these have been joined by a throng of colonisers. These include several carnivo ...Show more
A Photographic Guide to Seashells of New Zealand by Margaret Morley
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History | Reading Level: Very Good
The fifth New Zealand title in this internationally acclaimed series of compact, easy-to-use guides which is the ideal car glovebox, pocket or backpack reference for anyone with an interest in natural history. A Photographic Guide to New Zealand Seashells covers 165 common and a few rarer species of mol ...Show more
Photographic Guide to Spiders of New Zealand
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History
Spiders are found everywhere in New Zealand, from bathroom to bush, beach and beyond, and although many people find them distasteful, they are valuable predators of pests and fascinating components of any ecosystem. This new guide introduces over 90 species, focusing on the more commonplace introduced s ...Show more
A Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of New Zealand by Andrew Crowe
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
A go-to, illustrated field guide of edible native New Zealand plants, including a section on poisonous plants. In this useful and attractive book, over 190 trees, shrubs, herbs, ferns, mushrooms, lichens and seaweeds are described in detail with information on which part is edible and when, how plants h ...Show more
A Photographic Guide to Reptiles & Amphibians of New Zealand by Tony Jewell
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History | Series: Photographic Guide to | Reading Level: very good
Everyone has heard of the tuatara, New Zealand's unique 'living dinosaur'; but equally fascinating, if less well known, are the country's other reptiles. There are more than 65 species of lizards (including skinks and geckos), frogs and other reptiles and amphibians native to New Zealand, and scientists ...Show more