Helen Macdonald, Tim Dee, and James Macdonald Lockhart recently gathered to discuss birds at the London Review Bookshop. Fortunately, for those unable to attend, it was recorded and can now be heard via podcast.
With the publication of Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed; An Introduction to Birdsong, Simon Barnes brings his unique combination of professional experience and amateur enthusiasm to a very wide potential readership; one that includes not only bird watchers of all levels of experience but those who don’t necessarily even consider themselves bird watchers as well.
From frequently appearing features such as Elizabeth Rigby’s “Birdwatching in Kenya” to the surprisingly candid interview with top lister Tom Gullick, the editors of the Financial Times are without a doubt the most birding-aware members of their profession.
Fact: Peru has 1,817 known species of birds. Fact: you can’t identify all of them on sight. Fact: neither can I.