RSPB Birding Year Seasonal Tips and Activities to Learn About Bird Behaviour

About this book

A guide to bird behaviour in the British Isles throughout the year, including ID help, top things to see and do each month, facts and folklore, and practical ideas to help birds.

Join Siân Duncan and Dominic Couzens on a journey through the seasons exploring what British birds are doing each month and why. Find out what's happening in parks, gardens and the wider countryside as they reveal how birds live, from courtship and parenting to migrating and the fight for survival.

RSPB Birding Year is packed with information and photos and is ideal for anyone keen to learn more about the birds of the British Isles. Each month includes detailed profiles of five common birds and a more challenging species to try and see, as well as explorations of bird myths and folklore and practical advice from professionals on how to encourage birds into your garden.

Meet the bird that can feed under ice, learn why birdsong is loudest in spring and discover the best birding spectacles to enjoy each season wherever you live, including starling murmurations over our towns and cities, dramatic seabird cities around our coasts and millions of migrating birds that pass over or visit the British Isles each year.

Contents

January - Hungry birds
February - Relationships and courtship
March - Nesting time
April - Songs of love and war
May - Long-distance flyers and second homes
June - Floofed-up fledglings and gawky 'teens'
July - Summer by the sea
August - Hiding and gliding
September - Journeys long and short
October - Hoarders and hordes
November - Flock together
December - Christmas quackers

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Biography

Siân Duncan is a conservationist and wildlife enthusiast. She is the former editor of the RSPB's popular Notes on Nature newsletter and has written extensively about birds and other wildlife for the RSPB.

Dominic Couzens is an ornithologist and writer. He's written numerous bestselling books, including the Secret Lives of British Birds trilogy and Bird: ID Insights. His writing has featured in many publications, such as BBC Wildlife, Countryfile and Bird Watching.