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Book reviews

Read reviews of the books we hold in the Chris Mead Library, written by our in-house experts. A selection of book reviews also features in our members’ magazine, BTO News.

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All the Birds of the World

Lynx have had a long-term project to produce an exhaustive guide to the birds of the world. It started out with the 17 volumes of the Handbook of the Birds of the World (1992–2013) which has family and species accounts for all birds. This was followed by the two volumes of the Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World (2014–2016). They have now published the third and final stage of this avian odyssey with this current book.

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Atlas of the Mammals of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Author: Derek Crawley, Frazer Coomber, Laura Kubasiewicz, Colin Harrower, Peter Evans, James Waggitt, Bethany Smith & Fiona Matthews

Publisher: Pelagic Publishing, Exeter

Published: 2020

This is the first national Mammal Atlas to be published since 1993 (Atlas of Mammals in Britain by Henry Arnold) and documents changes in recorded distribution between 1960 and 2016. It is aimed as an ...

Moult and Ageing of European Passerines

Author: Lukas Jenni & Raffael Winkler

Publisher: Helm, London

Published: 2020

Moult is a pivotal stage in the annual cycle of all birds and understanding the effect of moult strategy on plumage is an essential tool for ageing birds in the field for birdwatchers and ringers ...

Is That a Bat? A Guide to Non-Bat Sounds Encountered during Bat Surveys

Author: Neil Middleton

Publisher: Pelagic Press, Exeter

Published: 2020

There has been some ground-breaking development in bat detector technology in recent years, such as the Audiomoth and Echometer Touch, reviewed in BTO News, Spring 2018, which have enabled a much ...

An Indifference of Birds

Author: Richard Smyth

Publisher: Uniformbooks, Axminster

Published: 2020

In this brilliant book, Smyth shines a light on the relationship between birds and humans. In particular, on the roles we have played, and continue to play, in bird lives and histories. In doing so, ...

Effects of Climate Change on Birds

Author: Peter O Dunn(Editor) & Anders Pape Møller(Editor)

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford

Published: 2010

Since the publication of the first edition of this edited volume 10 years ago, we have all grown in our awareness of the twin biodiversity and climate crises that the planet faces. There is building ...

Wildlife Disease Ecology: Linking Theory to Data and Application

Author: Kenneth Wilson, Andy Fenton & Dan Tompkins (eds.)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Published: 2019

Zoonotic diseases (those that infect humans but which originate in populations of wild animals), especially novel ones, sometimes receive quite high profile, e.g. avian influenza, Ebola and, more ...

Birds of Bhutan and the Eastern Himalayas

Author: Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp, Tim Inskipp & Sherub

Publisher: Helm, London

Published: 2019

The original Birds of Bhutan published by Helm in 1999 was the first field guide to the avifauna of this Himalayan nation; the new work however, is not simply just a second edition but has been ...

Britain's Day-Flying Moths: a Field Guide to the Day-flying Moths of Great Britain and Ireland

Author: David Newland, Robert Still & Andy Swash

Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton (NJ) & Oxford

Published: 2019

Mention of a day-flying moth to many people will receive a reaction akin to ‘Don’t you mean a butterfly?’ However, as mentioned in WildGuide’s Britain’s Day-flying Moths the number of moth species ...

The Consequences of Finding Daniel Morgan

Author: Peter J Robinson

Publisher: Matador, Kibworth Beauchamp

Published: 2019

A thriller surrounding illegal wildlife trade, focusing on tropical birds and remote locations, is certainly a new find in the ornithological section of the library. Robinson’s crime novel is a ...
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