RSPB Birding Year provides a guide to bird behaviour throughout the year, including ID help, top things to see and do each month, facts and folklore, and practical ideas to help birds.
Join on a journey through the seasons exploring what birds are doing each month and why. Although the book is centred around birds occurring in the British Isles, many tips and practical suggestions also apply to species found elsewhere in Europe. Find out what's happening in parks, gardens and the wider countryside as the authors reveal how birds live, from courtship and parenting to migrating and the fight for survival.
RSPB Birding Year is packed with information and photos and is ideal for anyone keen to learn more about the birds. Each month includes detailed profiles of five common birds and a more challenging species to try and see, as well as explorations of bird myths and folklore and practical advice from professionals on how to encourage birds into your garden.
Meet the bird that can feed under ice, learn why birdsong is loudest in spring and discover the best birding spectacles to enjoy each season wherever you live, including starling murmurations over our towns and cities, dramatic seabird cities around our coasts and millions of migrating birds that pass over or visit the British Isles each year.
Contents:
- January - Hungry birds
- February - Relationships and courtship
- March - Nesting time
- April - Songs of love and war
- May - Long-distance flyers and second homes
- June - Floofed-up fledglings and gawky 'teens'
- July - Summer by the sea
- August - Hiding and gliding
- September - Journeys long and short
- October - Hoarders and hordes
- November - Flock together
- December - Christmas quackers
Siân Duncan is a conservationist and wildlife enthusiast. She is the former editor of the RSPB's popular Notes on Nature newsletter and has written extensively about birds and other wildlife for the RSPB.
Dominic Couzens is an ornithologist and writer. He's written numerous bestselling books about birds. His writing has featured in many publications, such as BBC Wildlife, Countryfile and Bird Watching.
