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FREE download. This report is a brief summary of the information available on BirdLife’s State of the world’s birds website.
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Critically Endangered Birds: A Global Audit
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FREE Download. Critically Endangered Birds is a product of the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme. It presents the science underpinning the programme and the actions needed by other organisations, agencies and governments to complement it.
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World Birdwatch Magazine
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Subscription just £30/year. World Birdwatch is BirdLife's international magazine about birds – crammed with recent news and authorative articles about birds, their habitats, and their conservation around the world.
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Bird Conservation International
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Access to online archive FREE. Bird Conservation International is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal focusing on the major conservation issues affecting birds and their habitats.
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Antarctic Wildlife: A Visitor’s Guide to the Wildlife of the Antarctic Peninsula, Drake Passage and Beagle Channel
Monday, January 10, 20110 CommentsAntarctic Wildlife: A Visitor’s Guide to the Wildlife of the Antarctic Peninsula, Drake Passage and Beagle Channel
240 pages, £17.95, Available to buy. This is a handy-sized photographic field guide that aims to help visitors to this remarkable part of the world.
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Feathers
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336 pages, £18.99, Available to buy. In "Feathers", biologist Thor Hanson tells a sweeping natural history of feathers, as they've been used to fly, protect, attract, and adorn through time and place.
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Nightjars of the World
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464 pages, £44.99, Available to buy. This lavishly illustrated book is the first comprehensive photographic guide to the Caprimulgiformes of the world.
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Saving Asia’s Threatened Birds: A Guide for Government and Civil Society
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256 pages, £19, Available to buy. This book documents the major forest, grassland and wetland regions of Asia and the globally threatened bird species which they support.
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Threatened Birds of the World
Monday, January 10, 20112 CommentsThreatened Birds of the World
852 pages, £52.99, Available to buy. This book covers all 1200 species now threatened with global extinction. The threats to each species are described, with an evaluation of conservation measures so far and targets for the future.
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Threatened Birds of Asia (2 volume set): The BirdLife International Red Data Book
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3038 pages, £55, Available to buy. Provides incredibly detailed information on the 665 most threatened bird species found in Asia.
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A Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife: The Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean
Monday, January 10, 20111 CommentA Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife: The Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean
544 pages, £40.00, Available to buy. This book is the first complete guide to the natural history and wildlife of this vast region, covering all the sub Antarctic islands, the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic Continent.
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The Atlas of Birds: Mapping Avian Diversity, Behaviour and Habitats Worldwide
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144 pages, £16.99, Available to buy. Authoritative and concise, this beautifully illustrated atlas captures the dazzling diversity of bird life around the world.
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The Jewel Hunter
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424 pages, £17.99, Available to buy. Insightful, compelling and laugh-out-loud funny, this is more than a book about birds. It's a true story detailing the lengths to which a man will go to escape his mid-life crisis. A travelogue with a difference.
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Bird Watch: A Survey of Planet Earth’s Ecosystems
Monday, January 10, 20110 CommentsBird Watch: A Survey of Planet Earth’s Ecosystems
256 pages, £36.50, Available to buy. Bird Watch is an illustrated tour of endangered birds and their habitats.
Isabella Lucy Bird (15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904) was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, and a natural historian.[1]
Contents [hide]
1 Early life
2 Travels
3 Later years
4 Works
5 References
6 References
7 External links
Early life[edit source]
Bird was born in Boroughbridge in 1831 and grew up in Tattenhall, Cheshire.[2] As her father Edward was a Church of England minister, the family moved several times across Britain as he received different parish postings, most notably in 1848 when he was replaced as vicar of St. Thomas' when his parishioners objected to the style of his ministry.
Bird was a sickly child and spent her entire life struggling with various diseases. She mentions her health troubles at least six different times in letters to her sister, sent during her six-month stay in Hawaii.[2] Her real desire was to travel. In 1854, Bird's father gave her £100 and she went to visit relatives in America. She was allowed to stay until her money ran out. She detailed the journey anonymously in her first book The Englishwoman in America, published in 1856. The following year, she went to Canada and then toured Scotland.
Time spent in Britain always seemed to make her ill and, following her mother's death in 1868, she embarked on a series of excursions to avoid settling permanently with her sister Henrietta (Henny) on the Isle of Mull. Bird could not endure her sister's domestic lifestyle, preferring instead to support further travels through writing. Many of her works are compiled from letters she wrote home to her sister in Scotland.
Travels[edit source]
Isabella Bird wearing Manchurian clothing from a journey through China.
Bird finally left Britain in 1872, going first to Australia, which she disliked, and then to Hawaii (known in Europe as the Sandwich Islands), her love for which prompted her second book (published three years later). While there she climbed Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.[2] She then moved on to Colorado, then the newest member of the United States, where she had heard the air was excellent for the infirm. Dressed practically and riding not sidesaddle but frontwards like a man (though she threatened to sue the Times for saying she dressed like one), she covered over 800 miles in the Rocky Mountains in 1873. Her letters to her sister, first printed in the magazine Leisure Hour,[2] comprised her fourth and perhaps most famous book, A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains.
Bird's time in the Rockies was enlivened especially by her acquaintance with Jim Nugent, "Rocky Mountain Jim", a textbook outlaw with one eye and an affinity for violence and poetry. "A man any woman might love but no sane woman would marry," Bird declared in a section excised from her letters before their publication. Nugent also seemed captivated by the independent-minded Bird, but she ultimately left the Rockies and her "dear desperado." Nugent was shot dead less than a year later.
The illustration of two Ainu men, originally from her 1880 book Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
At home, Bird again found herself pursued, this time by John Bishop, an Edinburgh doctor in his thirties. Predictably ill, she went traveling again, this time to Asia: Japan, China, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia. Yet when her sister died of typhoid in 1880, Isabella was heartbroken and finally accepted Bishop's marriage proposal. Her health took a severe turn for the worse but recovered by Bishop's own death in 1886. Feeling that her earlier travels had been hopelessly dilettante, Bird studied medicine and resolved to travel as a missionary. Despite her nearly sixty years of age, she set off for India.
Later years[edit source]
Korea and Her Neighbours (1898)
Arriving on the subcontinent in February 1889, Bird visited missions in India, visited Ladakh on the borders of Tibet, and then traveled in Persia, Kurdistan and Turkey. The following year she joined a group of British soldiers travelling between Baghdad and Tehran. She remained with the unit's commanding officer during his survey work in the region, armed with her revolver and a medicine chest supplied – in possibly an early example of corporate sponsorship – by Henry Wellcome's company in London.
Featured in journals and magazines for decades, Bird was by now something of a household name. In 1892, she became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society. She was elected to membership of the Royal Photographic Society on 12 January 1897. Her final great journey took place in 1897 where she travelled up the Yangtze and Han rivers which are in China and Korea, respectively. Later still, she went to Morocco, where she travelled among the Berbers and had to use a ladder to mount her black stallion, a gift from the Sultan.[2] She died in Edinburgh within a few months of her return in 1904, just shy of her seventy-third birthday. She was still planning another trip to China.
"There never was anybody," wrote the Spectator, "who had adventures as well as Miss Bird." In 1982, Caryl Churchill used her as a character in her play Top Girls. Much of the dialogue written by Churchill comes from Bird's own writings.
In 2006, Bird was featured in Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology edited by Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, and Judith E. Moores (Trinity University Press) which looks at writing over the years and how it pays tribute to the Earth and its geological features.
Works[edit source]
Library resources
About Isabella Bird
Online books
Resources in your library
Resources in other libraries
By Isabella Bird
Online books
Resources in your library
Resources in other libraries
The Englishwoman in America (1856)
The aspects of religion in the United States of America (1859)
Pen and Pencil Sketches Among The Outer Hebrides (published in The Leisure Hour) (1866)
Notes on Old Edinburgh (1869)
The Hawaiian Archipelago (1875)
The Two Atlantics (published in The Leisure Hour) (1876)
Australia Felix: Impressions of Victoria and Melbourne (published in The Leisure Hour) (1877)
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) [1]
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880) Volume 1
Sketches In The Malay Peninsula (published in The Leisure Hour) (1883)
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883 [2] at A Celebration of Women Writers
A Pilgrimage To Sinai (published in The Leisure Hour) (1886)
Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan (1891) Volume 1
Among the Tibetans (1894) Available online from the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Korea and her Neighbours (1898) [3] Volume 1 Volume 2
The Yangtze Valley and Beyond (1899)
Chinese Pictures: notes on photographs made in China (New York : C. L. Bowman, 1900)
Notes on Morocco (published in the Monthly Review) (1901)
References[edit source]
Jump up ^ Our Amazing Planet Staff (30 April 2012). "8 Unsung Women Explorers". LiveScience.com. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Isabella Bird, Biographical Note, The Hawaiian Archipelago, eBooks, (2004), i.
References[edit source]
Luke Gartlan: A complete Craze: Isabella Bird Bishop in East Asia, in PhotoResearcher [Vienna: ESHPh], no. 15, April 2011 (p. 13-26), ISSN 0958-2606
Carole Glauber, Isabella Bird Bishop: Korea, the Yangtze Valley, and Beyond, Photo Review, Summer 2002.
External links[edit source]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Isabella Bird
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Bishop, Isabella.
Wikisource logo Works written by or about Isabella Lucy Bird at Wikisource
Essays by Isabella Bird at Quotidiana.org
Works by Isabella Bird listed at The Online Books Page
Works by Isabella Bird at Project Gutenberg
Speaker Icon.svg Isabella L. Bird public domain audiobooks from LibriVox
Works at the Victorian Women Writers Project
Works by Bird at Open Library.
Isabella Lucy Bird (1898), Korea and Her Neighbours: A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Country
Short radio script, Bear Encounter at California Legacy Project
Bird, Isabella. "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: The Firsthand Experiences of a British Woman in Outback Japan in 1878". Japan & Stuff Press (2006). ISBN 4-9902848-0-1.
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