Where to Watch Birds in Scotland - Mike Madders

Scotland is home to many wonderful birds that cannot be found anywhere else in the British Isles. If you want to see majestic white-tailed and golden eagles, hard-as-nails ptarmigan which lives on our highest mountain tops, the piratical great skua, or Britain's only endemic bird, the Scottish crossbill, then you must go to Scotland. Scotland is, however, a large country, with over 30,000 square miles of mountains and moorland, rolling hills, rocky and sandy coastlines, and vast, unspoilt tracts of ancient Caledonian pine forest. It can be difficult to imagine where to start in tracking down, for example, a golden eagle. This is where this book comes in. ...  Read the complete review

Where to watch birds in Scotland by Mike Madders and Julia Welstead is part of the Where to Watch Birds guides that covers 21 different titles. Each of these books have different authors but they all follow the same format which has proved so successful that they are now amongst the best selling bird books ever published. Where to watch birds in Scotland has been described as "The definitive guide to finding birds in Scotland" and first published in 1989 it is now in its fourth edition. The book spans 297 pages and is arranged by region. As the title of the book suggests it covers 142 different locations across ten different Scottish ...  Read the complete review