Continuing our weekly selection of the very best titles available through NHBS:
Garden Bird Confidential
by Dominic Couzens
What?
An insider’s guide to what’s really going on with the birds in your garden.
Why?
Garden Bird Confidential profiles 60 of Europe’s regular garden birds. It includes the usual identification information – voice, habitat, breeding etc., but takes it a stage further. The ‘confidential’ section for each species presents fascinating nuggets of scientific research from the last 40 years. For example, it was recently discovered that great tits had developed a taste for roosting bats in a cave in Hungary; that the blackcap’s song rate can be related to the safekeeping of its nest; and that some bird species, such as the dunnock, have found breeding success in an arrangement of tense polygamy. Colour photography abounds, including some lovely full-page portraiture.
Who?
Dominic Couzens is a leading nature writer and lecturer who has been writing about wildlife for over 20 years. He is the author of several successful books including Top 100 Birding Sites of the World, Atlas of Rare Birds and The Secret Lives of Garden Birds. Dominic has appeared on BBC television and regularly contributes to leading magazines including BBC Wildlife Magazine, Birdwatching and Birds, the magazine of the RSPB.
