An Atlas of Amazing Birds is a beautiful book by an author who usually focuses on British birds. But for this bonanza, he has gone around the world with beautiful art and witty description of birds across the globe.
Every bird in this book is amazing – birds that migrate thousands of miles, have strange showy mating rituals, survive in extreme environments, are brilliant builders – or who are super-fast, super-brave or super-big!
The book features birds from each continent – Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia, North America, South America and Antarctica. A celebration of bird life!
Once an integral part of the community, the Cornish chough had completely disappeared from the area. In 2001 a few birds flew over from Ireland and re-established themselves on the Cornish coastline, with the help of a project set up to protect them. Now their numbers are on the rise. Proper job!
about the author
Matt Sewell is a talented watercolour artist and ornithologist who writes some of England’s best-selling books about birds and other creatures. His designs are even on postage stamps on the Isle of Man.
