Where to Watch Birds in Britain

ISBN-13: 9781408110591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 672 str.

Nigel Redman

Opis

The best birdwatching sites in Britain are covered in this guide. Included are detailed maps of the larger sites, plus general maps of the regions covered. Each site is considered in terms of habitat and access, allowing birders to get the best out of their excursions.

Recenzje

There could be no better guide than this book. Chris Packham

Spis treści

IntroductionAcknowledgementsHow to use this bookAccess for the disabledKey to the mapsSouth-west EnglandIsles of ScillyCornwallDevonSomersetAvonDorsetSouth-east EnglandIsle of WightHampshireWest SussexSurreyBerkshireGreater LondonEast SussexKentEast AngliaEssexSuffolkNorfolkCambridgeshireCentral EnglandBedfordshireHertfordshireBuckinghamshireOxfordshireGloucestershireWorcestershireWest MidlandsWarwickshireNorthamptonshireLeicestershie and RutlandLincolnshireNottinghamshireDerbyshireStaffordshireNorthern EnglandCheshire & WirralGreater ManchesterLancashire& North MerseysideCumbriaYorkshireCelevelandDurhamNorthumberlandWalesSouth WalesMid WalesNorth WalesScotlandDumfries & GallowayBordersLothianClydeUpper ForthPerth & Kinross (South)FifePerth & Kinross (North)Angus & DundeeNorth-east ScotlandMoray & NairnHighlandArgyllOuter HebridesOrkneyShetlandTop 100 species to see in BritainIndex of sites

O autorze

Simon Harrap is a professional writer, photographer and tour leader, based in Norfolk. He leads birdwatching tours throughout the world, and botanical and nature trips in Norfolk. His previous books include Orchids of Britain and Ireland, Flowers of the Norfolk Coast, Flowers of the Norfolk Broads (all of which are illustrated with his own photographs), as well as RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds and Where to Watch Birds in Britain. Nigel Redman is a lifelong birder and an experienced tour leader and bird guide. Over more than four decades he has led around 150 bird tours, and visited more than 90 countries on all seven continents.Nigel has field experience of around half of the bird species of the world. In between these extensive travels, he worked for 20 years as a leading publisher of bird books, latterly for Bloomsbury Publishing in the UK. He is also the author of numerous articles and three books, including an acclaimed Helm field guide, Birds of the Horn of Africa, and was co-author of Where to Watch Birds in Britain. Nigel has an insatiable appetite for travelling and birds, and is never happier than when he is helping others to see them.