Garden Birds
Mike Toms
Garden Birds
Mike Toms
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Gardens make a significant contribution to the amount of urban green space and are the main contributors to urban biodiversity. Birds are one of the most visible components of this urban biodiversity, and many of us enjoy attracting wild birds into our gardens.
Praise for Garden Birds:
‘Excellent’ Chris Packham
Praise for Mike Toms:
‘Seventy years in the making, this celebration of our native owls is a fine addition to a glory of British publishing – the New Naturalist series’ The Sunday Times
‘It’s an excellent read and should be on every owl enthusiast’s bookshelf, not to mention those of collectors of this great series’ Birdwatching
‘Fabulous … [Owls brings] the natural world to a wide audience in simple unfussy but engaging prose … The result is the best and most detailed published account of the British owl species ever produced … One of the joys of the book is that Toms leaves no stone unturned to narrate the birds’ full biography.’ Mark Cocker, Eastern Daily Press
Praise for the New Naturalist series:
‘Taken either individually or as a whole, they are one of the proudest achievements of modern publishing’ The Sunday Times
‘The series is an amazing achievement’ The Times Literary Supplement
‘The books are glorious to own’ Independent
Mike Toms has overseen the BTO’s Garden Ecology Team for more than a decade, delivering research that addresses the question of why birds use gardens and the impact this use has on their ecology. He is an Associate Director at the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), responsible for science communication. Much of his work is geared towards public engagement in Citizen Science, delivering quality research through networks of keen amateurs. Mike is a regular contributor to BBC Wildlife magazine, a columnist for the Eastern Daily Press and author of several books, including several on garden birds and, most recently, the Collins New Naturalist volume on owls. He is a Trustee of Norfolk Wildlife Trust and part of the New Networks for Nature steering group.