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Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book |
When Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book was first published in 1980 it told us what many of us already knew - that bird watching is an ultra-competitive hobby with its own vocabulary and class system.
According to Bill Oddie, 'bird watchers are tense, competitive, selfish, shifty, dishonest, distrusting, boorish, pedantic, unsentimental, arrogant and – above all – envious'.
Described by British Birdwatching as the 'funniest book ever read' in the Little Black Bird Book, Bill Oddie describe in his own hilarious way equipment, apparel, sightings, cock-ups, the kind of places to go to and the places (and people) to avoid, the birds he's seen and the birds that got away.
The Little Black Bird Book is a classic and if you're a bird watcher you must read this book. If you're a birder, you already have. And if you're neither it'll turn you off bird-watching for ever, which as Bill says is no bad thing because there's too many of us already.
Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book costs £4.24 - BUY NOW
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