Mike Toms has overseen the BTO’s Garden Ecology Team for more than a decade, delivering research that addresses the question of why birds use gardens and the impact this use has on their ecology. Now Head of Communications at the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), Mike is responsible for how the organisation communicates the results of its scientific work to a broad range of audiences. Much of his work is geared towards public engagement in citizen science, delivering quality research through networks of keen amateurs.Mike is a regular contributor to BBC Wildlife magazine, a columnist for the Eastern Daily Press and author of several books, including a number on garden birds and, most recently, the Collins New Naturalist volume on garden birds. He is a Trustee of Norfolk Wildlife Trust and part of the New Networks for Nature steering group.

Praise for New Naturalist Garden Birds:‘Excellent’ Chris PackhamPraise for New Naturalist Owls by Mike Toms:‘Seventy years in the making, this celebration of our native owls is a fine addition to a glory of British publishing – the New Naturalist series’ The Sunday Times‘It’s an excellent read and should be on every owl enthusiast’s bookshelf, not to mention those of collectors of this great series’ Birdwatching magazine‘Fabulous … [New Naturalist Owls] brings the natural world to a wide audience in simple unfussy but engaging prose … The result is the best and most detailed published account of the British owl species ever produced … One of the joys of the book is that Toms leaves no stone unturned to narrate the birds’ full biography’ Mark Cocker, Eastern Daily Press

Mike Toms has overseen the BTO’s Garden Ecology Team for more than a decade, delivering research that addresses the question of why birds use gardens and the impact this use has on their ecology. Now Head of Communications at the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), Mike is responsible for how the organisation communicates the results of its scientific work to a broad range of audiences. Much of his work is geared towards public engagement in citizen science, delivering quality research through networks of keen amateurs.Mike is a regular contributor to BBC Wildlife magazine, a columnist for the Eastern Daily Press and author of several books, including a number on garden birds and, most recently, the Collins New Naturalist volume on garden birds. He is a Trustee of Norfolk Wildlife Trust and part of the New Networks for Nature steering group.

Praise for New Naturalist Garden Birds:‘Excellent’ Chris PackhamPraise for New Naturalist Owls by Mike Toms:‘Seventy years in the making, this celebration of our native owls is a fine addition to a glory of British publishing – the New Naturalist series’ The Sunday Times‘It’s an excellent read and should be on every owl enthusiast’s bookshelf, not to mention those of collectors of this great series’ Birdwatching magazine‘Fabulous … [New Naturalist Owls] brings the natural world to a wide audience in simple unfussy but engaging prose … The result is the best and most detailed published account of the British owl species ever produced … One of the joys of the book is that Toms leaves no stone unturned to narrate the birds’ full biography’ Mark Cocker, Eastern Daily Press