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Best Birdwatching Sites from Buckingham Press

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Books providing information about bird sites have been available for many years in the UK, but the Best Birdwatching Sites guides have been widely praised for presenting their contents in the most reader-friendly way.

To quote Dave Gosney, who was a pioneer in the site guide field: “Both the author and publishers need a big pat on the back for taking an old format and putting so much thought into exactly what information is needed by birdwatchers and how it should be presented.”

Each book in the series details sites in alphabetical order, complete with high quality maps and directions to the site. All sites are assessed for wheelchair access and proximity to buses and train services. We don’t forget to detail those all-important public conveniences, either.

The authors list the Target Species for each site (and, based on their own experience, rate your chance of seeing each one as a percentage). So, if you are keen to see a Nightjar in Norfolk, the index will indicate 11 sites regularly attract this migrant species and on checking the percentages you’ll see that Dersingham Bog NNR is likely to be your best bet for a sighting.

BEST BIRDWATCHING SITES: YORKSHIRE - publication update
Our author, Neil Glenn, is hard at work putting together this eagerly-awaited site guide. However, due to the size of the area and the number of sites that will be covered, the research is taking longer than we had originally hoped.

In order to maintain the standards of our other site guides, we want to avoid taking any short-cuts, when it comes to evaluating reserves for this new book, so realistically, it will be early 2016 before Best Birdwatching Sites: Yorkshire is published.

For more detailed information on each of these site guides, please click on the images below

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Best Birdwatching Sites: Scottish Highlands (3rd edition) by Gordon Hamlett
Colour: 2-colour throughout.
Key Features: 27 birding routes from John O’Groats to Pitlochry.
Number of pages: 288
Size: A5
Price: £18.95
Price including postage
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Best Birdwatching Sites: Norfolk (3rd Edition) by Neil Glenn
Colour: 2-colour throughout.
Key Features: Contains 85 locations.
Number of pages: 272
Size: A5
Price: £17.95
Price including postage

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Best Birdwatching Sites: The Solway by John Miles
Colour: 2-colour throughout.
Key Features: 76 sites in Cumbria, 84 sites in Scotland.
Number of pages: 240.
Size: A5
Price: £17.50
Price including postage
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Best Birdwatching Sites: NE England by Brian Unwin
Colour: 2-colour throughout
Key Features: 17 sites in Cleveland, 37 in Co Durham and 42 in Northumberland - 100 maps
Number of pages: 308
Size: A5
Price: £17.95
Price including postage

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Best Birdwatching Sites: Dorset by Neil Gartshore
Colour: 2-colour throughout
Key Features: Features 65 reserves and birdwatching areas.
Number of pages: 248 
Size: A5
Price: £17.95

Price including postage
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Best Birdwatching Sites in Cornwall &Scilly by Sara McMahon and Nigel Hudson
Colour: 2-colour throughout.
Key Features: Features 52 mainland sites, plus 7 around the key islands of Scilly.
Number of pages: 208
Size: A5
Price: £17.50
Price including postage

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Best Birdwatching Sites in North Wales by Alan Davies and Owen Roberts
Revised and updated version
Now with GPS and SAT NAV coordinates plus maps and site details updated where appropriate.
Colour: 2-colour throughout.
Key Features: Features 58 major sites in Gwynedd and Clwyd, plus 11 smaller sites around Wrexham.
Number of pages: 192
Size: A5
Price: £17.95
Price including postage
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