Save Our Birds is a wonderful book by Matt Sewell, an ornithologist and artist who creates gorgeous fun books to educate people on all our lovely birdlife. Leaving no habitat unexplored around the British Isles, he provides a wealth of practical advice on how to help birds in cities, coastlands, woodlands and farms. From bird-friendly nestboxes to community projects, discover steps to save our birds!
Don’t encourage birds to gardens if you live with cats (keep feline friends inside at dawn and dusk, when birds are likely feeding). Don’t play birdsong near birds, it can make them vulnerable to predators. Learn how to create safe havens for garden birds and how to stop birds flying into windows.
Our Garden Birds offers 52 descriptions of birds, one for every week of the year. From great tits ‘bossing the other birds around’ to the ‘playful yet shy buoyancy’ of bullfinches and the waxwing ‘like a computer-generated samurai finch’. Our Woodland Birds takes us into forests, copses and wastelands to meet bramble-picking blue tits, a flight of finches and a parliament of young owls.
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!
a day in the life of a bird family
A Bird Day is an English translation of a Swedish children’s story, looking at an ordinary day, told through the life of a bird family. ‘Wash your beaks, it’s time for lunch – flies again today’, says Dad. After lunch the young birds get sent off to play – they sing, hunt mosquitoes, compare leg size and poke grubs. This is how birds spend a day. Readers will recognise the dynamics of bickering over fried mosquitoes and worm pie – only the youngest is allowed to pick out the worms.
go crazy for birds with Misha!
We also love Misha Blaise’s book Crazy for Birds which again makes learning about our feathered friends incredibly fun. From the blue-footed booby (who shows his feet to female birds – whoever has the brightest blue feet gets the girl!) To showing how chickens are related to dinosaurs. Learning about birds has never been so interesting! Misha Maynerick Blaise is a writer and artist, who runs a green building company with her husband in Texas, USA.