A CELEBRATION OF BIRDS. By Robert Dougall.

(1978) 1978 1st edition reprint. 8vo (158 x 240mm). Pp194. 8 illustrated colour plates, b/w illustrations, bibliography/ acknowledgements. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

A collection celebrating the lives of British birds, by this well-known BBC newsreader from yesteryear. " The author hopes that this book will help to introduce others to the endless fascination of the birdlife that surrounds us all in town or country. He answers some of the questions people have put to him: millions of birds die every year but why are their corpses seldom seen? How does a perching bird manage to sleep on a branch without falling off? Where do the blue tits...vanish to in summer? There is information and humour but, above all, there is beauty: the author has compiled for our delight an enchantment of verse and prose."