The appearance of yet another book on British birds may be welcomed, since it brings our knowledge of the subject up to date. In recent years great changes have been made in the scientific ...

A BBC broadcaster and prolific author, Mr. Moss has made a career out of explaining British birds to a wider readership. In this book he traverses a much larger terrain, starting out close to home ...

ORNITHOLOGISTS will welcome this little book, which is printed on one side ... The fact that it is taken from the “Practical Handbook of British Birds “is a sufficient guarantee that it ...

An "extraordinary mistake" led to a wildlife photographer being able to capture rare pictures of British birds ... working on a book documenting garden wildlife, including birds, foxes and badgers ...

devotes each chapter of her book to a different method of measuring migration. But she is clear-eyed, too, about the possible harms human curiosity can impose on its subjects. Birds probably don ...