By Bikram Grewal, Sumit Sen, Sarwandeep Singh, Nikhil Devasar & Garima Bhatia Published by Princeton 722 pages, Price £37.95 Flexibound Princeton has certainly been promoting the photographic guides recently with Britain’s Birds, Birds of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East and now this monster production with 4000+ coloured photos of this amazing area covering 1375 bird species. There is a history of bird watching in the area by the well known Carol and Tim Inskipp and then it is straight into this staggering amount ofspecies. The pictures show the birdlife using such diverse habitats from the Himalayas down to the Bay of Bengal covering so many countries in this subcontinent but no h
Published by Whittles Publishing softback pages 246 Price £19.99 This is the second Golden Eagle book written by Dave with the first based on his experience working with the Lakeland eagles and now he adds his work with wind farms and dedication to some local territories in Argyll making 37 years in the field. The title is a bit misleading as the read is ideal for anyone interested in this iconic bird and when you look at fieldworkers may be there are only 50+ in the whole of the UK! Dave takes the approach that many previous examples of how to deal with this species needs to be questioned. In fact reading the book opens many questions that still need answering. Statements like the census fi
Wild Guide series published by Princeton, Flexibound, Pages 330, price £17.95 This series grows and grows and desperately wanted was this book on mammals to fill a gap which has never really been filled by any publisher. The book covers a staggering 122 species with some amazing species which can always be added to with escapes, reintroductions and bats flying across the channel. Still there are 26 species of bat to look for at night and endless cetaceans to look for during the day and if you have time left all the rest. There is a history chapter, when and where to go, guides to how to see using various gadgets, tracks and signs, a complete write up on each species and even on line resource
The RSPB have issued a history of persecution of Red Kites in Yorkshire - https://www.rspb.org.uk/community/ourwork/b/investigations/archive/2017/04/07/red-kite-shot-bedfordshire-yorkshire-dales.aspx But no where have they added the reasons for such killings. The Red Kite is a well known bird for taking carrion but they have learnt [to their cost!] that if they hear gun shots that carrion may well be available. This is well known to Doug Simpson who ran the successful Red Kite reintroduction to Yorkshire at Harewood Estate as we phoned him to discuss a bird drawn to the guns here at Geltsdale where a partridge shoot was taking place. In the case of these missing Red Kites in Yorkshire the bi
