To get some ideas, and just to see what was already out there, today I went to Waterstones to have a look at all of the bird guides on sale.
There seems to be two types; the standard identification guide, and the arty picture book;
(Dale, 2014)
(Floyd, 2010)
(Sewell, 2012)
These three books are very similar in format, the only difference appears to be the topic (animals, location, etc.) and the style of illustration (all nice watercolours). The format of the pages is even the same! For each bird/animal, there is a one page image, and one page of text. This was going to be what I was going to do, although now I think I will have to rethink that, and do something different.
(Sibley, 2013)
(Palin, 2013)
I have another book like this, A Dissimulation of Birds (Palin, 1998) same author, although this focuses on just birds, where as A Murmuration of starlings covers animals and birds. This is why I'm not going to do a book based around the idea of collective nouns, although I have thought about including it.
(Berrie, 2013)
(Svensson et al., 2009)
(Vinicombe et al., n.d.)
These are just some examples of the standard bird guides that are on offer. All very similar - this is the thing that I wanted to do something about when I was thinking about re-doing the nature reserve signs.
What I would like to do is combine the arty nice book, with the traditional guide, while also drawing attention to the Red List.
These books may be very similar, but non of them focus on the Red List; this is what I am aiming to do.
(Lindo, 2013)
This book doesn't so much focus on the birds, I mainly just liked the little detail on the page number, I think its really sweet and a good way to bring back the theme of birds.
Another book, similar to this, but which does focus on the Red List and bird watching is While Flocks Last, by Charlier Elder (Elder, 2009) this book highlights the difficulties of tracking down all of the birds on the Red List; it shouldn't be that hard!
(Basford, 2013)
This idea I thought was really sweet! Its a colouring book. I also found a couple of scavenger hunt books. I really like this idea, although I think I could have only really used it when I was thinking about the nature reserve sign project...but it's a nice idea that I might come back to (it would be a really good way to appeal to kids).
Basford, J. (2013). Secret garden. 1st ed.
Berrie, C. (2013). Bird post cards. 1st ed. Lawrence King.
Dale, H. (2014). The country set. 1st ed. ANOVA National Trust.
Elder, C. (2009). While flocks last. 1st ed. Oxford: ISIS.
Floyd, M. (2010). Birdsong. 1st ed. London: National Trust.
Lindo, D. (2013). The urban birder. 1st ed. New Holland Publishers Ltd.
Palin, S.
(2013). A murmuration of starlings. 1st ed. Merlin Unwin Books.
(1998). A dissimulation of birds. 1st ed. London: Minerva Press.
Sewell, M. (2012). Our garden birds. 1st ed. London: Ebury.
Svensson, L., Mullarney, K., Zetterström, D. and Grant, P. (2009). Collins bird guide. 1st ed. London: HarperCollins.
Vinicombe, K., Harris, A., Tucker, L. and Harris, A. (n.d.). The Helm guide to bird identification. 1st ed.
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