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Birds in Wales by Roger Lovegrove, Iolo Williams, Graham Williams is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Birds in Wales about?

The rugged countryside of Wales has long been a destination for successive generations of naturalists, ornithologists, oologists and, latterly, birdwatchers. Since the pioneering days of Willoughby and Ray, Pennant and Edward Llwyd, a growing number of intrepid travellers have recorded the wildlife and other natural riches of the mountains and coastlines of Wales. Despite these beginnings and the more recent twentieth century vogue for birdwatching, no volume on the birds of Wales has been produced until now to serve the increasing need for scientifically valid information for conservation purposes. In the years that have passed since the first naturalists visited Wales, changes of unimaginable scale have taken place in the Welsh countryside which have had equally dramatic impacts on the native bird communities. A succession of bird species have either been eliminated deliberately by the hand of man - mainly birds of prey - or have been dispossessed by changes in land use, the spread of industrialisation, urbanisation and pollution, trends which continue today to the increasing detriment of even some of our most familiar countryside birds. Much fine habitat remains however, and ne

Who reads Birds in Wales?

Author

Roger Lovegrove, Iolo Williams, Graham Williams

Publisher

A & C Black

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780856610691

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Nature, Travel, Science