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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The Role of Birds in World War One: How Ornithology Helped to Win the Great War
Author: Nicholas Milton
Publisher: Pen & Sword History, Barnsley
Published: 2022

The Bird Name Book
Author: Susan Myers
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton & Oxford
Published: 2022

Birds of South Africa
Author: Adam Riley
Publisher: Helm, London
Published: 2022

Low-carbon birding
Author: Javier Caletrío
Publisher: Pelagic Publishing
Published: 2022

Robin
Author: Helen F Wilson
Publisher: Reaktion Books, London
Published: 2022

Birds of the Lesser Antilles: A Photographic Guide
Author: Ryan Chenery
Publisher: Helm, London
Published: 2022

The Glitter in the Green
Author: Jon Dunn
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2022

The Secret Life of Birds
Author: Moira Butterfield & Vivian Mineker
Publisher: Happy Yak, London
Published: 2022

The Corncrake: an ecology of an enigma
Author: Frank Rennie
Publisher: Whittles Publishing, Dunbeath
Published: 2022
