Birdland : a journey around Britain on the wing
Gower, Jon2025
Book
Journalist and lifelong twitcher Jon Gower explores our intimate connection with the bird life around us. From the symphonic song of the wren to the clack of a puffin's beak and from epic migrations to sunset murmurations, birds are commonplace miracles. No wonder they have inspired our artists, writers and songwriters. Whether rare or abundant, the author visits some of the best places in Britain to watch birds, searching for some species he has always wanted to see such as wryneck, dotterel and barred warbler. Gower charts the many changes to Britain's bird life over the last 50 years. He considers the effects of the climate emergency, the decline in biodiversity and warming oceans on birdlife and looks at work being done to mitigate these developments. But above all, the book is a celebration of birds and their being, and a call to arms to defend them.
Main title:
Birdland : a journey around Britain on the wing / Jon Gower.
Author:
Gower, Jon, author
Imprint:
Manchester : HarperNorth, 2025.
Collation:
306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour), maps (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780008688189 (hbk)
Dewey class:
598.0941598.0941 GOW598.094
Language:
English
BRN:
3954103