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The Birds of Southwest Leicestershire was inspired by earlier works. Both Stephen H. Pilgrim in 1915 and Robert 'Eric' Pochin in 1944 laid down the gauntlet and challenged someone to produce a work of this magnitude. Pilgrim wrote that "this can't be considered a good neighbourhood from an ornithologist's point of view. It is too far from the sea, there are no large sheets of water or meres, no large river valley and we are not on any line of migration". However, time has shown that Southwest Leicestershire is in fact an excellent area to watch birds. Inside you will find a thorough review of all the known bird records from this area plus many fantastic illustrations and photographs.
This book covers subjects such as migration, species accounts, and the best locations to watch birds. The status of each species is compared against the wider counties of Leicestershire & Rutland as well as Britain & Ireland as a whole.
" As soon as I received a copy of The Birds of Southwest Leicestershire, I suspected I was going to enjoy it. This tribute to a little area of England delighted me, the local birding aficionado, from start to finish. [...] it is a testament to the note-taking patch birder – those who actually log their sightings and study the birds in their area [...] In summary, this is a wonderfully evocative account of the avian life of a modest birding area of England. The authors should be immensely proud of their work – and the birders of south-west Leicestershire should feel proud about their contributions over the years."
– Ed Stubbs, birdguides.com
