| A Birdwatcher's Guide: How to Birdwatch (Birdwatcher's Guide) |
 enlarge | Authors: Stephen Moss, Wildlife Trusts
Creator: David Tipling
Publisher: New Holland Publishers Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 733437
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
ISBN: 1843301547
Dewey Decimal Number: 598
EAN: 9781843301547
ASIN: 1843301547
Publication Date: March 1, 2003
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Customer Reviews:
A Good Guide to Becoming a Birder February 6, 2008
Stephen Moss's `How to Birdwatch' is designed not only as an introductory guide to start you off bird watching, but also as a aid to developing your bird watching as you improve and progress. It starts off with basic information such as advice on clothes, equipment, etc, then moves on to developing `fieldcraft' and ultimately to widening your experiences away from you're local patch to more ambitious targets such as rare species and trips abroad.
The page is set out in text dotted with illustrations and photographs with a two inch column at the side of the page reserved for the captions and smaller artwork. The photography is largely irrelevant and there is nothing more irritating than seeing page space you've paid for being taken up by a photograph of a man looking through binoculars. However the aesthetics of this book are redeemed by the brilliant artwork by David Daly. Moss relies on Daly to illustrate his words - both wonderful to look at and always appropriate to the text. The illustrations also do a great job of improving the readability of the text which at times can appear a little dry.
Moss brings 40 years of experience to this subject so his advice is sound and his views on controversial aspects are worth considering. Bill Oddie counts Moss among his closest advisors which probably adds more to an ornithological CV than any official qualification. Overall this is a very helpful book and will save you a lot of wasted time, energy, frustration and probably money in you're search for birds. Most of all it might stop you giving up when the going gets tough.
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