Language: English
This guide details 110 sites in and around Berlin with detailed information on access, habitat and species. It contains colour maps and photographs throughout, and a calendar with seasonal highlights. There are suggested itineraries and recommendations on where to stay in this exciting but under-recognised region, as well as tips on finding sought-after specialities such as lesser spotted eagle, great bustard, little crake, thrush nightingale, river warbler, red-breasted flycatcher and rosefinch, and the best sites for seeing thousands of wintering geese, or the autumn crane migration.
"Best 'Where to watch birds' I have seen"
– Ibis
"Beautifully produced birding guide"
– Birding World
"Excellent site and species sumnnaries"
– Birdwatch Magazine
"Well-researched and cleare guide"
– BTO
"Nicely produced book"
– British Birds
"The right level of detail
– Dutch Birding
"A very good guide"
– Klaus Witt (Berlin) in Fatbirder
"Practical and very pleasing layout"
– Alauda
"This is a highly detailed and beautifully produced birding site guide covering 110 sites in the Berlin/Brandenburg area of eastern Germany. The colour maps are particularly well-drawn and attractive. This book puts many other site guides to shame!"
– Steve Gantlett, Birding World 25(12), January 2013.
"[...] This is a nicely produced book, which will certainly help anyone who decides to watch birds in this surprisingly rich area of eastern Germany."
– Keith Betton, British Birds, 13-08-2012