How to Be an Urban Birder
1st Edition
Published on 19. November 2018
232 pages
978-0-691-18444-9 (ISBN)
Description
No detailed description available for "How to Be an Urban Birder".
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
David Lindo
How to Be an Urban Birder
Book
08/2018
Princeton University Press
€19.00
Shipment within 10-20 days
Persons
David Lindo, popularly known as The Urban Birder, is a naturalist, writer, broadcaster, speaker, photographer, wildlife tour leader and educator. His mission is to connect the city folk of the world with the wonderful wildlife that is all around them-even in the middle of the Concrete Jungle. His motto is simple: Look up! He is also the author of The Urban Birder and Tales from Concrete Jungles: Urban Birding around the World (both Bloomsbury). He is a Londoner and runs the website The Urban Birder World.
Content
- Cover
- Ttitle Page
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- What is urban birding?
- How to use this book
- The urban landscape
- Gardens
- Public parks
- Rivers and canals
- Reservoirs, gravel pits and lakes
- Woodlands and trees
- Cemeteries
- Heaths and grasslands
- Nature reserves
- Coastlines
- Other urban habitats
- Urban centres
- Rooftops
- Sewage farms
- Marshes
- Brownfield land and building sites
- Landfill sites
- Shopping centre car parks
- Airports
- The sky
- What is an urban bird?
- What is that bird?
- The birds in your neighbourhood
- Seasons
- Migration
- Weather
- Roosts
- What birds can you look for?
- Urban garden birding
- Attracting birds to your garden
- Feeders
- Birdbaths
- Nestboxes
- Threats
- Diseases
- Cultivating wildlife-friendly gardens
- Ponds, small water features and bog gardens
- Tools of the trade
- Bird books
- Magazines
- Binoculars
- Telescopes
- Cameras
- How to take a picture
- Digiscoping
- Phonescoping
- Video
- Storing your images
- Sound recording
- The Internet
- Smartphones
- Apps
- Being an urban birder
- Urban birding attire
- Fieldcraft
- Safety
- Finding birds
- Note taking
- When to go birding
- Finding a local patch
- Listing and reporting your sightings
- Urban birder or urban twitcher?
- Hooking up with other birders
- Urban birding abroad
- Just give it a go!
- Acknowledgements and photo credits
