Book of British Birds

By Drive Publications (editor),

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Book of British Birds. Second Edition. [Hardcover] DRIVE PUBLICATIONS

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The Book of British Birds is one of several comprehensive reference books produced around half a century ago for the Reader’s Digest. They were written without jargon and have become classics. The illustrations in this bird volume are excellent, with bird-by-bird descriptions, followed by a range of fascinating topics, such as how birds care for their plumage, camouflage, how they sleep, and courtship displays. Some information is now itself history – who would have thought (for example) that the ubiquitous starling is now on the Red List of UK birds?

From Lesley's list on the history of British birds.

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