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Avian Britain Summer Adventure by Train
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For individual travellers who want to explore and discover their own birds, this 4-day rail tour round mainland UK should... More > net around 80 species. The cost of travel and lodging if starting from London could be as little as £110. The itinerary takes in four sites on the way to Scotland any time between April and October.

Outside the main passage season Britain’s only endemic, Scottish crossbill, should be possible. Much easier will be red grouse, an endemic subspecies of willow ptarmigan.
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Avian Avon Adventure
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For individual travellers who want to explore and discover their own birds, this 2-day tour round the old county should net... More > over 70 species. The cost of travel and lodging from a base in Bristol could be as little as £55.

The stars are smew in the winter, peregrine falcon, yellow-legged gull, Cetti’s warbler, rock pipit and passage osprey and black tern. < Less
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Avian London Adventure
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A programme of the top three birdwatching sites reachable from Central London, especially by public transport. This should... More > net you about 60 species. The star of the city is peregrine falcon but such foreigners as parakeets are also likely. < Less
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The British Birding Year
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The bitter cold of January does not freeze the birder’s enthusiasm for starting a new year list, with even ordinary... More > species exciting a thrill. February may not be so chilly and may even prompt the odd bird into song; it’s time to mop up the more difficult winter visitors. March sees the arrival of our first non-resident breeders and lowers the curtain on Act One of the Birding Year.

But the drama continues over the next eight months in a series of personal vignettes illustrating an ever-changing birdscape.

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The Honeyeaters' Tree
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This is a pre-release version, with a few pages still in first draft.

A quest for this quintessentially antipodean family... More > of birds uncovers the withering tree of life and the vanishing landscapes of Australia and New Zealand.

From the UK and a Singapore stopover, the traveller journeys to a week around Perth. Then two months in a campervan from Adelaide to Cairns, Queensland. He learns how the tree of life connects the whole globe and how vulnerable it is to our human onslaught.

As if the natural world were fighting back, the route also skirts floods and cyclones. A fortnight in Tasmania and Victoria, with its fatal fires, concludes this far from straightforward quest for the 73 honeyeaters. Finally, New Zealand offers a coda with its own branch of the family.

It’s not just about birds: it's a last chance to witness other survivors from the Triassic before they succumb to this mass extinction. < Less
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Build a British Bird List
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New to, or just recently started birding? Wonder which are the birds you're most likely to see? The first part of this book... More > lists 250+ species in just that order. Now you have a plan to make a solid start on your British list.

The next part lists likely sites for the species towards the end of the order. An appendix gives early and late dates for most of our migrants.

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Summer Bird Tour through Britain
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In 4 or 5 days four sites through the UK should net you 90 to 100 species. Outside the main passage season Britain’s only... More > endemic, Scottish crossbill, should be possible. Much easier will be red grouse, an endemic subspecies of willow ptarmigan. The highlight will be breeding seabirds, for which the country is internationally important. < Less
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4-Day Bird Tour round Britain
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Four sites across the UK over four days should net you close to 100 species. At the right time of year Britain’s only... More > endemic, the Scottish crossbill, should be possible. Much easier will be red grouse, an endemic subspecies of willow ptarmigan. < Less
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All-Season British Bird Tour by Train
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Four sites by train from London to Scotland over four days should net you between 80 and 90 species, which is right up there... More > with doing the whole shebang by car.

The highlights will be bitterns and bearded tits, and wintering thrushes and waterfowl, for which the country is internationally important. London offers several exotics – such as rose-ringed (aka ring-necked) parakeet – that have made the UK, and the official British list, their home. < Less
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Let the Time Come
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After centuries of abuse birds become mankind's nemesis. It would be poetic justice, if they'd meant it. But nature isn't... More > like that: it just happens. Three singular people must survive bird flu pandemics while on a quest for meaning, identity and love. But time reveals one further snag for all of humanity.

This is a complete story but still a work in progress, although hopefully also a good read. Thank you for your purchase which will pay me to keep improving it. (And if you have any ideas, I'd love to hear them and maybe use them, with an acknowledgement – your chance to shape a book!) < Less
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About Andy Gibb

The budget-conscious option to bird tours or hiring guides. Each booklet gives up-to-date details for an itinerary of the best sites. Find the greatest number of species while fitting in the rest of your visit. And go green too: train and bus access is also listed.

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