Product Description

An invaluable pocket-sized guide to the 100 popular bird species that you are most likely to find in your town, garden or park. It also contains expert practical advice on encouraging birds to your garden. This completely new title in the Collins Gem series incorporates both practical information on each species and easy-to-use identification guides.; Each page is devoted to a different species and illustrated with a colour photograph to aid identification* Contains information on each species' feeding, behavioural habits, breeding, voice and population* An extensive introduction provides information on nesting sites, water, pests and predatorsCompact and easy-to-use, Collins Gem Garden Birds is the perfect introduction to this increasingly popular subject.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7100 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author
Stephen Moss has been an active birdwatcher all his life. A journalist and broadcaster, he writes a monthly column for The Guardian, and also contributes regularly to Birdwatch magazine. He recently produced and directed the highly successful BBC television series, Wildlife in your Garden, by Bill Oddie.

Customer Reviews

For garden use
A good book to have in the house to keep the children amused whilst still educating them. Very descriptive and easy to use as a reference book.

Just ok
To be honest I found the book a little too small, when I spot a bird in my front garden I find it a little too fiddley to use quickly.

I'ts a good size if you are out walking but if you are spotting birds from indoors I would go for something different.

Handy Guide for the Casual Observer

This is exactly what it say in the title, a handy little book of the one hundred or so species of the more common garden birds. It is possible, but hardly probable that you may see a Snowy Owl in your back garden, stranger things have happened, but if you do you won't find it in this book. If you live in the wilds of Scotland a Golden Eagle may be perched on your chimney pot at this very moment, but again you will not find it in this book.

Joking apart the book is for those who see a handsome little bird in their garden and think "I wonder what that one is called." This book will help them to identify those birds without having to fork out a great deal of money on an expensive book. It is also useful for those bird clues in crossword puzzles.