J.W. Brucker, A.G. Gosler and A.R. Heryet

Cover: Hardback
Size: 297 x 210 mm
No. of Pages: 288pp
Colours: Over 200 b/w illustrations, maps and diagrams, 8 colour photos
ISBN: 0 9508245 9 3

£27.95

This book is the first authoritative and comprehensive guide to the birds and bird habitats of Oxfordshire. Its opening chapter reviews the long-established history of birdwatching and ornithology in the county. Drawing on the mass of information collected over the past century, the profound changes which have occurred to Oxfordshire’s towns and countryside are described and their effects on birdlife reviewed. The book incorporates the results of the Atlas of Breeding Birds in Oxfordshire Project, which mapped the distribution of all the county’s breeding birds between 1985 and 1988 and the Atlas results are shown as 87 distribution maps in Chapter 4. Accounts are given of all the species which have been recorded in the county since records began and every breeding species is skillfully illustrated by some of Oxfordshire’s leading bird artists.