A Life In The Trees

A Personal Account of the Great Spotted Woodpecker

Declan Murphy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2018
The Lilliput Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84351-750-4 (ISBN)

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The Great Spotted Woodpecker first bred in Ireland in 2009. Since then the author has followed the daily lives of this species, a family of whom had taken up residence in a windtorn Spanish chestnut tree near his home in the depths of County Wicklow. This unique and personal account of a family of woodpeckers raising their young brings the reader deep into the world of this fascinating species: a world of hope, love, death, new life and ultimately success. It explores the richness and diversity of the natural wonders found in County Wicklow against a backdrop of a more general overview of the species in Ireland. It includes a foreword by filmmaker John Boorman, and features illustrations by Killian Mullarney and Flemming Christoffersen with stunning colour photographs by Dick Coombes. This book is to be treasured by everyone – not just ornithologists, but those with an interest in the natural world around them.

Declan Murphy has been watching birds since he was a young child and had parents who took him for walks every weekend to the local woods, mountains, estuaries and lakes of Co. Wicklow. He had “no interest in sport of any sort and even less interest in people” – those, that is, who were not David Attenborough, Éamon de Buitléar or Gerrit van Gelderen.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.12.2018
Vorwort	John Boorman
Verlagsort	Dublin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	136 x 216 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-84351-750-7 / 1843517507
ISBN-13	978-1-84351-750-4 / 9781843517504
Zustand	Neuware