This Birding Life: The Best of the Guardian's Birdwatch

by Stephen Moss

Overview

This collection of essays “gives bird enthusiasts the next best thing to birdwatching, an eloquent and insightful consideration of birds and birding” (Publishers Weekly).

Stephen Moss’s collection of Guardian “Birdwatch” columns forms a fascinating picture of one man’s birding life: from early coot-watching as a young boy, through teenage cycle trips to Dungeness, to adult travels around the world as a TV producer working everywhere from the Gambia to Antarctica.

Drawing on nearly twenty years of columns for the Guardian, Stephen covers local, national and foreign birding encounters. From the (varying) excitement and peace of his chosen pursuit, to the growing uncertainties posed by climate change, the author brings an enthusiasm and sincerity to the subject that will energise even the most fair-weather of birdwatchers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781312117
Publisher:	Quarto Publishing Group USA
Publication date:	12/20/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	236
Sales rank:	497,636
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Stephen Moss is a writer and broadcaster who has written the monthly Birdwatch column in the Guardian since 1993. He worked for many years at the world-famous BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, where his award-winning TV series included Birding with Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie Goes Wild and Springwatch. He is also a regular voice on BBC radio. He has authored a number of books for Aurum, including This Birding Life: The Best of the Guardian’s Birdwatch, A Bird in the Bush: A Social History of Birdwatching, A Sky Full of Starlings: A Diary of the Birding Year and Wild Hares and Hummingbirds. He lives in Somerset with his wife Suzanne and five children.

Stephen Moss is a writer and broadcaster who has written the monthly Birdwatch column in the Guardian since 1993. He worked for many years at the world-famous BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, where his award-winning TV series included Birding with Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie Goes Wild and Springwatch. He is also a regular voice on BBC radio. He has authored a number of books for Aurum, including This Birding Life: The Best of the Guardian's Birdwatch, A Bird in the Bush: A Social History of Birdwatching, A Sky Full of Starlings: A Diary of the Birding Year and Wild Hares and Hummingbirds. He lives in Somerset with his wife Suzanne and five children.

Editorial Reviews

This collection of essays from the "Birdwatch" columnist of England's Guardiannewspaper provides a glimpse into the life of an avid birder. Moss (A Bird in the Bush: A Social History of Birdwatching) has arranged these pieces topically, including those relating to Moss's first birdwatching experiences, birdwatching in England, birdwatching abroad, and those loosely arranged under the heading "Birds, Places and People." Employing terminology like life listsand pishing, his essays will give even the most novice birders a rudimentary understanding of the fundamentals of birdwatching; readers unfamiliar with Britain's birds may want to use the web site of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (www.rspb.org.uk) to look up images of our feathered British friends. It is also well worth a Google image search to see the more exotic species Moss describes from his worldwide birding trips to locales as diverse as Africa, Europe, and Antarctica. Recommended for natural history collections where birding books are popular.
—Diana Hartle

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