Category: remarkable birds

A review of Remarkable Birds, by Michael McCarthy, from Resurgence and Ecologist. Some extracts: I was particularly entranced by a moody, haunting vision of rooks rebuilding their nests in spring by the Russian 19th-century landscape artist Alexander Savrasov, and by the bold-faced osprey of his British contemporary Prideaux John Selby. Remarkable Birds goes beyond the…

Remarkable Birds is widely regarded as a beautiful book – I’m very pleased with it. Here are just a few examples of the species covered in the book and some of the information it contains.   Lear’s Macaw is named after Edward Lear, artist and author of nonsense verse, who painted one in London Zoo…

John Lewis-Stempel makes Remarkable Birds a The Times book of the year for 2016, ‘Avery’s pen portraits are exquisite, as are the hundreds of accompanying antique paintings and drawings by the likes of Audubon and Thornton. The book is like holding gold or jewels. I cannot put it down‘ – full review Robert Tanitch, Mature…

Thank you to all who submitted entries for this blog’s first writing competition – there were some really good entries and five very good winners: Wildlife and Politics Kerri ni Dochartaigh Invertebrates Sue Croxford Wildlife and the Arts Ross Hunter International Wildlife Hugh Webster Under-18 category Hazel Peters   But there were some excellent other…

  Kerri ní Dochartaigh grew up climbing trees, eating beans on toast, watching birds, swimming in the Atlantic Ocean and making wreaths from wild flowers. She still does all of these things. She read English Lit and Classics at Trinty College Dublin and taught in Steiner Schools in Edinburgh and Bristol. She finally moved home to…