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 predators Compact and easy-to-use, Collins Gem Garden Birds is the perfect introduction to this increasingly popular subject.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4489 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• 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

Great pocket bird guide
Nice introduction, with ints on attracting birds to your garden.
It's lovely and compact (3.75 x 4.25 x 0.5 inches), easy to use layout of one bird per page. Each page includes a brief section on identification, habits, feeding, breeding, voice and habitat. Also a clear photo of each bird with some sketches of juveniles.
My only minor dissapointment is on the lack of data on the size of each bird.

Ideal for the windowsill
A lovely little book and just what I needed as a non bird watcher to identify what was coming into the garden. The book has a nice layout and is small enough to slip into your pocket.

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.