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.
Featured review
All the Birds of the World
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 Vanishing Mew Gull: A Guide to the Bird Names of the Western Palaearctic
Author: Ray Reedman
Publisher: Pelagic Publishing, London
Published: 2024

The Painted Stork: Exploring Ecology and Conservation in India
Author: Abdul Jamil Urfi
Publisher: Pelagic Publishing, London
Published: 2024

The Best Nest Contest
Author: Luke Western
Publisher: Brown Dog Books, Bath
Published: 2024

Bird Pellets: A Complete Photographic Guide
Author: Ed Drewitt
Publisher: Pelagic Publishing, Exeter
Published: 2024

Maurice Bird: The Gilbert White of The Broads
Author: James Parry
Publisher: Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists’ Society
Published: 2024

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

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

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