Where to Watch Birds in Britain (2nd edition)

With a glowing endorsement from celebrity wildlife enthusiast Chris Packham proudly adorning the cover, Where to Watch Birds in Britain immediately positions itself as an authoritative text. Given that it covers 454 major birdwatching sites in this follow‐up edition to the 2003 original, and features maps of 300 of those sites, it certainly lives up to the idea that “there could be no better guide”.

Despite the immense undertaking, the authors do not pretend to offer a comprehensive guide, but have rather created a set of selection criteria so that they can offer a quality guide. Quality in this context...