A portfolio of 220 strikingly lifelike paintings by prolific wildlife artist Robert Bateman. Each color painting, rendered in exquisite detail, depicts a bird in its habitat. With field notes and commentary. Bateman (who also provided color plats for Mattheissen's Birds of heaven) chooses diverse birds, ranging from those found near his Salt Spring Island home to the Galapagos, Africa and Siberia.  (BRD16, $40.00)

Birds