Mark Cocker is an author and naturalist whose fourteen books include works of biography, history, literary criticism and memoir. Crow Country was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2008 and won the New Angle Prize for Literature in 2009. A Claxton Diary won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award in 2019, and his most recent book, One Midsummer’s Day, was shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Award 2023.

"At last! An up to date examination of what makes birders tick. And about time too! Wonderfully written" Bill Oddie "A natural history version of Fever Pitch... Reading it may even make you want to try out this strangely addictive past time for yourself" Guardian "Intensely readable, very funny and highly enlightening" New Scientist "With a mixture of well-chosen anecdotes and self-deprecating humour, Cocker succeeds in making event he most hardened cynic appreciate his passion. Birders is a stylish work in a long tradition of fine writing on the subject" Guardian "The best account yet of the "tribe" and its wonderful, unworldly passions" The Times

Mark Cocker is an author and naturalist whose fourteen books include works of biography, history, literary criticism and memoir. Crow Country was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2008 and won the New Angle Prize for Literature in 2009. A Claxton Diary won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award in 2019, and his most recent book, One Midsummer’s Day, was shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Award 2023.

"At last! An up to date examination of what makes birders tick. And about time too! Wonderfully written" Bill Oddie "A natural history version of Fever Pitch... Reading it may even make you want to try out this strangely addictive past time for yourself" Guardian "Intensely readable, very funny and highly enlightening" New Scientist "With a mixture of well-chosen anecdotes and self-deprecating humour, Cocker succeeds in making event he most hardened cynic appreciate his passion. Birders is a stylish work in a long tradition of fine writing on the subject" Guardian "The best account yet of the "tribe" and its wonderful, unworldly passions" The Times

Mark Cocker is an author and naturalist whose fourteen books include works of biography, history, literary criticism and memoir. Crow Country was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2008 and won the New Angle Prize for Literature in 2009. A Claxton Diary won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award in 2019, and his most recent book, One Midsummer’s Day, was shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Award 2023.

"At last! An up to date examination of what makes birders tick. And about time too! Wonderfully written" Bill Oddie "A natural history version of Fever Pitch... Reading it may even make you want to try out this strangely addictive past time for yourself" Guardian "Intensely readable, very funny and highly enlightening" New Scientist "With a mixture of well-chosen anecdotes and self-deprecating humour, Cocker succeeds in making event he most hardened cynic appreciate his passion. Birders is a stylish work in a long tradition of fine writing on the subject" Guardian "The best account yet of the "tribe" and its wonderful, unworldly passions" The Times