David Saunders, Jon Green

Where to Watch Birds in Wales (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The definitive guide to the birdwatching sites of Wales.

Wales remains one of the most alluring regions for birdwatchers; its range of habitats ensures a wide variety of species amidst the often spectacular scenery.

Now in its fifth edition, Where to Watch Birds in Wales remains an invaluable and most trusted site guide for birdwatching in Wales. This new edition features many new sites, and includes updated maps to the sites and fully revised and expanded text.

This is an essential guide for all birdwatchers living in or visiting this land of hills, valleys, moors and mountains.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472980663
• Artikelnr.: 65014686

Autorenporträt

David Saunders was appointed first warden of the newly declared Skomer Island National Nature Reserve in 1960 where he remained in post with his wife and two children for seven years. Subsequently he was organiser of Operation Seafarer (the first national seabird census of 1969-1970) and later director of the then West Wales Wildlife Trust. He was author of the first Where to Watch Birds in Wales published in 1987, followed by two subsequent editions, and was awarded the MBE in 2003 for services to nature conservation in Wales and in 2014 a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Welsh Ornithological Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction How to use this book Glossary of Welsh Place
Names Anglesey (Ynys Mon) Breconshire (Brycheiniog) Caernarfonshire
Carmarthenshire (Caerfyrddin) Ceredigon Denbighshire (Dinbych) East
Glamorgan (Dwyrain Morgannwg) Gwent Meirionnydd Montgomeryshire
(Trefalydwyn) Pembrokeshire (Sir Penfro) Radnorshire (Maesyfed) West
Glamorgan and Gower (Gorllewin Morgannwg and Gwyr) Appendix A: National
Organisations and Avifaunas Appendix B: Alphabetical List of Species with
Welsh and Scientific Names