One of the qualities I admire most in authors writing on natural history subjects is their ability to communicate very complex or serious information using wit. It’s a skill that I find most in evidence these days among the finest of Britain’s natural history writers – Richard Jones, Helen Scales, Liam Drew, and Erica McAlister being particularly note-worthy examples whose works most readily come to mind.
To this list Mark Avery would certainly add Helen Pilcher.