This is a lovely book – written by two ornithologists about the changing seasons on either side of the Atlantic Ocean. It’s a simple idea but it works very well. I don’t know Colin Rees at all, and I really only know Derek a little – he posed me an identification challenge in Ohio once….
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Martha
The current month’s Birdwatch has extracts from my forthcoming book A Message from Martha: the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and its relevance today. I’ve been touched by how many people have emailed me, after reading Birdwatch, to say that they are definitely going to buy it. The book looks at the story of the…
A Message from Martha
In two months’ time, A Message from Martha: the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and its relevance today will be published in the UK. Chris Packham is one of only about half a dozen people who has read it so far and he says: ‘This hugely thought provoking and important book is the kick up…
Sunday book review – A Field Guide to Monitoring nests by Ferguson-Lees, Castell & Leech
I’m rubbish at nests and eggs. I have little experience in finding them and am usually pretty clueless at identifying them when I do stumble across them. This, then, is a book for me. The book is a handy size to take into the field. Each of 146 British breeding species gets its own account…
Sunday book review – The Birds at the Bottom of the Garden by Carl Mynott
This is a small book for small people of around pre-school age. I’m a bit older than that, and so are my kids, but I bet they would have loved this book 20 years ago. The words, which are mostly in rhyming verse, and pictures, which are diagrammatic, are both by the author. It’s a…