To celebrate this years virtual Birdfair NHBS is offering free standard shipping to the UK and Europe over the event weekend. You can visit the NHBS stand at the virtual Birdfair here.
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Author Interview with Benedict Macdonald and Nicholas Gates: Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden
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The orchard has been a traditional component of the British landscape for many centuries. However, subsidiaries have led to the destruction of older traditional orchards to make way for more intensive farming and now only a fraction remain.
The value of these orchards for wildlife has long been underestimated. Ben Macdonald and Nick Gates spent years visiting a traditional orchard across all seasons observing its imperilled and overlooked abundance of life.
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Ben and Nick have taken time to answer our questions about their book and this remarkably fertile habitat. We will also have a limited amount of signed bookplates on publication – available while stocks last.
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Our August 'In The Field' product review features the Browning Patriot trail camera. Head over to the NHBS blog to find out how we tested this great piece of field kit and see some of the images and videos we captured with it.
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This month, browse our newly catalogued books in Leon's bookshelf.
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Planting the World Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany
Jordan Goodman follows these high seas adventurers and their influence in Europe, as well as taking us back to the early years of Kew Gardens, Banks was devoted to Kew Gardens throughout the course of his life, transforming it into one of the world's largest and most diverse botanical gardens. In a global expedition, based on original sources, Goodman gives a history of how the discoveries made by Banks and his collectors advanced scientific understanding around the world.
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Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Volume 3: Geotrupidae to Scraptiidae
Volume 3 covers a large number of families which exhibit a wide range of morphologies and ways of life, including the familiar dor beetles, stag beetles, dung beetles and chafers, jewel beetles, click beetles, glow-worms, soldier beetles, chequered beetles, ladybirds, darkling beetles, false blister beetles, oil beetles and cardinal beetles
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Improve your UK field skills with online ID resources
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During this year's lockdown and social isolation, many of us have been appreciating how important nature is to our happiness and wellbeing. It has also given us an opportunity to connect with local wildlife and develop or brush up on our identification skills.
While a good field guide is invaluable for this, there are also a huge number of really useful online resources available to help with identifying wild plants and animals. In our recent blog post we have listed a few of our favourites, covering plants, butterflies and moths, amphibians, birds, mammals and invertebrates.
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