Tales from Concrete Jungles

Urban Birding Around the World

AvDavid Lindo

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Engelska, 2015

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A collection of articles celebrating David Lindo's short birding trips to many cities in Britain and around the world. Born and raised in London, David Lindo's passionate interest in the natural world, especially birds, began at an early age. His thriving curiosity opened a door for him into an unexplored world of urban birding. Years later he decided to champion the delights of birding in cities and reinvented himself as the Urban Birder. Using this illustrious alias David Lindo has brought urban birding back into the public consciousness, promoting its virtues at every opportunity and writing about it in the birding press. He urges people to look up when walking around in cities, or to stop and close your eyes in a busy street just to listen to the birds that may be singing. In his second book, David visits some of the world's most unnatural environments, revealing the astonishingly diverse range of wildlife that can be found when you take the time to look. Much more than a compendium of birding sites, each tale follows the Urban Birder in his enthralling pursuit of city birding. Accompanied by dedicated local conservationists and renowned birders, David gives a deeper insight into the true nature of each city. Featuring 70 locations to explore, Tales from Concrete Jungles is the perfect book to dip in to when on the move, or to hide away with on a rainy afternoon. Join David in his celebration of nature, pick up travel inspiration, and immerse yourself in his captivating quest for urban birding.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-06-18
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781472918581
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)

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David Lindo is the Urban Birder. He has passionately promoted the virtues of birding in the urban environment at every opportunity, and especially through frequent articles in the birding press and on his appearances on television and radio. He was brought up in London and has been a birder all his life. His first book, The Urban Birder, chronicled his transformation from baby birder to fully-fledged superstar of the urban birding world.

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Lindo... manages to find wildlife havens in every city he visits.

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Introduction Being an Urban BirderUncle BirdsLove StoryBirds on FilmViva RonaldoCatch the PigeonDangerous Urban BirdingIdentifying BirdersThe Ones that Got AwayMy Hate Affair with ParakeetsAirport Birding The British Isles and IrelandAberlady Bay, East Lothian, ScotlandAlderney, Channel IslandsBelfast, Northern IslandBradford, YorkshireBrighton, SussexBristol, AvonCambridge, CambridgeshireCroydon, SurreyDerby, DerbyshireEastbourne, SussexExeter, DevonGibraltar Point, LincolnshireGlasgow, LanarkshireHartlepool, Country DurhamHull, YorkshireLeicester, LeicestershireLowestoft, SuffolkManchester, LancashireMilton Keyes, BuckinghamshireNorthumberland and North TynesideNorwich, NorfolkPeterborough, CambridgeshirePlymouth, DevonSheffield, YorkshireSouthend, EssexSt Albans, HertfordshireStaines, SurreyStockton and MiddlesbroughThe Olympic Park, LondonTower 42 and Canary Wharf, LondonWormword Scrubs and Beddington Farmlands, LondonWormwood Scrubs, LondonYork, Yorkshire EuropeAlentejo Region, PortugalAmsterdam, NetherlandsThe AzoresBelgrade, SerbiaBratislava, SlovakiaBrussels, BelgiumBudapest, HungaryHelsinki, FinlandKraków, PolandLisbon, PortugalMerida and Cáceres, SpainParis, FrancePrague, Czech RepublicReykjavik, IcelandValencia, Spain The Rest of the WorldAddis Ababa, EthiopiaBangkok, ThailandCape May, New Jersey, USAChiang Mai, ThailandIstanbul, TurkeyJerusalem, IsraelNairobi, KenyaPort Aransas, Texas, USASão Paulo, BrazilTaipei, TaiwanTucson, Arizona, USAWest Hollywood, USAYucatan, Mexico EpilogueAcknowledgementsIndex