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You can use the link above to find what you want or here's some birding books I can recommend (many of these probably don't count as qualifying products to generate a referral fee, but heh, they're good books so buy them anyway!). Apologies if some of them aren't available - I haven't checked availability for all of them.

For Field Guides, my personal favourite for British and European birds is the Collins Bird Guide by Mullarney, Svensson, Zetterstrom & Grant. Text, plates, maps all excellent. I've not seen another field guide covering the region that comes close and it's written by well-respected birders who are renowned for their identification skills. The Macmillan guide is excellent too but only covers the more challenging-to-identify species.

For North America, the best all-round Field Guide is arguably the Sibley guides - you can get one large guide covering the whole continent or two smaller ones covering east and west respectively. The small ones are easiest for carrying in the field, but don't contain quite so much detail. The National Geographic guide used to be the best, but I think Sibley is better. However the new National Geographic "Complete Birds of North America" is excellent - a bit heavy for carrying in the field and many of the plates aren't great, but the text is brilliant. On my visits to North America I've carried the smaller Sibley guides with me and had the Complete Nat. Geo. in the car for backup.

These are a selection of good family-specific guides:

For birding in Norfolk, "The Birds of Norfolk" is an essential reference. For the UK as a whole there's no better reference than the Breeding, Wintering and Migration Atlases (I couldn't find a link to the wintering one).

For things other than birds the following are excellent. The first is excellent for macro moths with unbeatable illustrations by Lewington and detailed text; the second is full of great photos though the text isn't so thorough - it also includes butterflies and a seelction of micro moths. The Dragonflies guide is brilliant too - again with superb illustrations by Lewington.