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Urban Aviary

Urban Aviary

A modern guide to city birds

by Stephen Moss and Marc Martin
Hardback
Publication Date: 03/09/2019

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Urban Aviary provides city-dwellers around the world with a guide to some of the most extraordinary species of birds that live alongside them.

  • Stephen Moss's expert knowledge and insight details the behaviour, habitat and key facts of each bird
  • Helpful spotting hints and species fact boxes
  • Each entry is accompanied by Marc Martin's beautiful watercolours

A unique guide to the unusual and often surprising birds that soar above our cities around the world. From frigatebirds wheeling over Rio de Janeiro to bowerbirds displaying in the suburbs of Canberra, penguins in Cape Town to pelicans in San Francisco, and huge flocks of starlings roosting around the Colosseum in Rome, the world's cities are home to a remarkable array of feathered citizens.

Through Stephen Moss's expert knowledge and insight, Urban Aviary provides a beautiful guide to some of the most extraordinary species of city birds that have become native, including helpful spotting hints and fact boxes for each bird, all of which are brought to life by Marc Martin's distinctive and beautiful watercolours.

ISBN:
9781781318409
9781781318409
Category:
Wildlife: birds & birdwatching
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
03-09-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Quarto Publishing Group UK
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
160
Dimensions (mm):
252.73x196.85x20.32mm
Weight:
0.68kg
Stephen Moss

Stephen Moss is a naturalist, broadcaster, television producer and author. In a distinguished career at the BBC Natural History Unit his credits included Springwatch, Birds Britannia and The Nature of Britain.

His books include A Bird in the Bush, A Sky Full of Starlings, The Bumper Book of Nature and Wild Hares and Hummingbirds. Originally from London, he now lives with his wife and children on the Somerset Levels.

Marc Martin

Marc Martin is an award-winning illustrator, artist and book maker based in Melbourne, Australia. Working with watercolour, gouache and pencil, his work is a world of vivid colour, rich textures and the occasional scribble.

He is the author/illustrator of A Forest, LOTS and A River, which was selected as one of The New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2017.

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