Birdland : a journey around Britain on the wing / Jon Gower.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gower, Jon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birds--Great Britain.

Birds.

Bird watching--Great Britain.

Bird watching.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Travel writing.

Physical Description:

306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : HarperNorth, 2025.

Summary:

Journalist and lifelong twitcher Jon Gower explores our intimate connection with the bird life around us. From the symphonic song of the wren to the clack of a puffin's beak and from epic migrations to sunset murmurations, birds are commonplace miracles. No wonder they have inspired our artists, writers and songwriters. Whether rare or abundant, the author visits some of the best places in Britain to watch birds, searching for some species he has always wanted to see such as wryneck, dotterel and barred warbler. Gower charts the many changes to Britain's bird life over the last 50 years. He considers the effects of the climate emergency, the decline in biodiversity and warming oceans on birdlife and looks at work being done to mitigate these developments. But above all, the book is a celebration of birds and their being, and a call to arms to defend them.

Contents:

Bird music: an overture of sorts

The sound of summer

Half a century of change

Flying through art

The Siberian connection

The Peregrine Falcon Literary Appreciation Society

Highlanding

Return to Enlli

A bird in the hand

Corncrake Central

Welcome the martlets

Kittiwake City

Into the woods

A tumbling of choughs

Home on the range

Rarity value

Roger and out

Operation Turtle Dove.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780008688189

0008688184

OCLC:

1518361607