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A Birding Miscellany
What do you call a group of Guillemots? What is the modern name for a Bog Pumper? Which type of bird can differentiate between the paintings of Monet and Picasso?The answers to these questions and many, many more can be found in this new book by wildlife writer and bird tour leader, Ian Parsons. Covering every possible aspect of ornithology, the author combines his love for birds with his love for trivia resulting in an eclectic mix of lists and facts. A must have book for anyone who has an interest in our feathered friends.
A Journey Through a Birder's Thoughts
A Journey Through A Birder's Thoughts is just that; a journey. Be it a twelve month journey around a reservoir in the European birding paradise of Extremadura or a journey through the author's thoughts on all things bird.The author intersperses his colourful and evocative diary notes with magazine articles on species as diverse as the Robin and Griffon Vulture. He has also added opinion pieces to stimulate the reader's own thoughts; from new housing estates for birds through to proposing a solution to the continued persecution of birds of prey, the author wants to get you thinking!Ian Parsons spent twenty years as a Ranger in the UK working with many rare and iconic species before setting up Griffon Holidays, a bird tour company leading trips in the bird rich jewel of Extremadura in Spain. Ian has contributed to many radio and television programmes and writes regularly for Bird Watching magazine.
No Easy Ride
Former police officer Ian Parsons, gives his account of life serving in the RCMP.
Seasonality
Seasonality is an uplifting look at British wildlife through the seasons of the year, but it is also about our relationship withthat wildlife. The author, a keen and passionate naturalist, takes us on a journey through spring, summer, autumn and winter, and on this journey we look at how our wildlife lives throughout the year, how it adapts and changes as necessary. The author shares how wildlife makes him feel, how he derives joy and a sense of well-being from the wildlife he sees and describes. But he also shares his frustration at how some of our actions and land management impact on our increasingly pressurised wildlife.It shares the delight of watching birds in the garden, fox cubs in t...
Love Letters
Trekkie Ritchie Parsons, a painter and book illustrator, was married to the publisher Ian Parsons. When she met and fell in love with Leonard Woolf, rather than splitting with Ian, convinced both men that life would be best if Leonard moved in next door. Trekkie spent the weekends with Ian and the week with Leonard, living this way for 25 years. When Trekkie and Leonard were not together they talked through quick letters, which she then sealed up, and were opened after her death. Linked by excerpts from her diary, the letters shine with details of daily life and tell the story of two contrasting personalities, their love for one another, and their unusual and creative domestic arrangement.
A Vulture Landscape
A Vulture Landscape is more than just a book about vultures, in the same way that these majestic flyers are more than just birds. Vultures are a crucial part of many of the world's ecosystems, and without these specialist environmental cleansers the ecosystems wouldn't work properly. A calendar year in the lives of these gargantuan raptors is explored as they live, breed, feed and fly with effortless ease across the skies of the vulture landscape that is Extremadura in central Spain.There are four species of vulture in Europe, and a fifth that is becoming more of a regular visitor as its own global population plummets. The serious conservation issues faced on a day-to-day basis by these spec...
A Dictionary of Scientific Tree Names
The common names that we give to trees varies from country to country, the scientific name does not. It is the universal language of all who are interested in the natural world; some tree scientific names have become so familiar that we use them without thinking (Rhododendron and Magnolia for example) when talking about trees, others are much more obscure, despite the species being known to us all by more common names (Aesculus hippocastanum for example). Scientific names not only show us how species are related to one another, but they can also tell us where the tree originates, or who discovered it, or the habitat it prefers, or whether it has hairy leaves or sharp pointed needles; they can even tell us about how we used to use the tree in the past. There is a lot of information that can be gleaned from the scientific name of a tree, but, with Latin no longer taught as a mainstream subject, it is often a language that we don't understand. A Dictionary of Scientific Tree Names has been written to help you understand and interpret these names; the book covers over 450 species of trees that are found in Britain. This is the latest book by wildlife author and tour guide Ian Parsons.
