Read reviews of the books we hold in the Chris Mead Library, written by our in-house experts. A selection of book reviews also features in our members’ magazine, BTO News.
All the Birds of the World
Featured review
Lynx have had a long-term project to produce an exhaustive guide to the birds of the world. It started out with the 17 volumes of the Handbook of the Birds of the World (1992-2013) which has family and species accounts for all birds. This was followed by the two volumes of the Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World (2014-16). They have now published the third and final stage of this avian odyssey with this current book.

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Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Author: Christian Cooper
Publisher: Penguin Random House, New York
Published: 2023

Flight Paths: How the Mystery of Bird Migration Was Solved
Author: Rebecca Heisman
Publisher: Swift Press, London
Published: 2023

The Meaning of Geese
Author: Nick Acheson
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing UK
Published: 2023

RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife
Author: Peter Holden & Geoffrey Abbott
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, London
Published: 2023

Birdsplaining: A Natural History
Author: Jasmine Donahaye
Publisher: New Welsh Review, Aberystwyth
Published: 2023

Be a Birder: The Joy of Birdwatching and How to Get Started
Author: Hamza Yassin
Publisher: Gaia Books
Published: 2023

Haunted by the last tide: The SWLA in the Danish Wadden Sea
Author: Colin Williams (text) & Marco Brodde (editor)
Publisher: Society of Wildlife Artists, London
Published: 2023

RSPB How to Photograph Garden Birds
Author: Mark Carwardine
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, Lond
Published: 2023

From Wasteland to Wetland: A History of Woolston Eyes
Author: Brian Martin
Publisher: Privately published
Published: 2023
