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Getting into mangroves – an interview with Mark Spalding
What is a mangrove, what sort of habitat does it provide, and what might you find living there? The term mangrove covers both a group of plants, and the habitats they build. The plants are a broad...
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The World’s Rarest Birds: an interview with author and birder Erik Hirschfeld
The World’s Rarest Birds is a sumptuous visual treat for birders, featuring a gallery of competition-winning bird photos from around the world. But it is more than that: Erik Hirschfeld – and...
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The birding ID guide revolutionary Richard Crossley, interviewed by NHBS
The Crossley ID Guide series hit the market in 2011 with the guide to Eastern Birds, marking a revolution in identification guides. The plates of birds, scenically arranged in their natural context,...
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Tim Birkhead on Ten Thousand Birds, and his top 5 ornithology classics
Tim Birkhead is a professor of zoology at the University of Sheffield. A researcher and educator he regularly gives public talks, is a distinguished columnist, and has written many books including The...
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Cold Blood author Richard Kerridge on reptiles and amphibians, and the ‘new...
Tell us about where you grew up and what inspired your early adventures with reptiles and amphibians. I grew up in the south London suburbs, and some of my earliest memories involve images of animals –...
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A Sparrowhawk’s Lament author David Cobham interviewed by NHBS
Our readers may be familiar with you as the director of the 1979 film, Tarka the Otter, so your conservation credentials go back a long way. What first stirred you to get involved with the plight of...
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Birds and Climate Change – authors James Pearce-Higgins & Rhys E. Green...
Birds and Climate Change: Impacts and Conservation Responses has just been published by Cambridge University Press. This key topic is given a broad critical review by James Pearce-Higgins, a Principal...
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Brock Fenton on the mystery and science of bats
Brock Fenton is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biology, Western University, Ontario, Canada. His research programme involves using bats to explore the interfaces between animal behaviour,...
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John Wilkinson, Science Programme Manager with ARC Trust, on amphibian...
The Amphibian Survey and Monitoring Handbook is the latest volume in the Conservation Handbooks series, tackling all aspects of amphibian survey. Author John Wilkinson is Science Programme Manager with...
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Interview with botanist James Byng, author of The Gymnosperms Handbook
James Byng in Zambia looking for Syzygium James Byng is the author of the new Gymnosperms Handbook and a founding member of Plant Gateway, the botany organisation that published this, and his previous...
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Naturalist, artist and author Steven Falk on his new field guide to bees
Naturalist and wildlife artist Steven Falk has had a diverse career with wildlife and conservation, including working as an entomologist with Nature Conservancy Council, and as natural history keeper...
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Reintroducing the griffon vulture in Bulgaria: an interview with Emilian Stoynov
Emilian Stoynov and colleagues created the Fund for Wild Flora and Fauna (FWFF) in Bulgaria in 2000 to support a project to reintroduce griffon vultures in the country. Emilian has been involved with...
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James Lowen is your guide to A Summer of British Wildlife
James Lowen James Lowen is a wildlife writer, editor, guide and photographer. Immersed in all aspects of natural history from a young age, he has spent several years leading wildlife tours in South...
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The Effective Ecologist: An Interview With Neil Middleton
Neil Middleton is an entrepreneurial ecologist who is the managing director of consultancy Echoes Ecology Ltd, and Time For Bespoke Solutions Ltd, a company that provides management consultancy and...
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Grasses, sedges and rushes: an interview with Dominic Price
Dominic Price near some grass in a valley mire Dominic Price is the author of this summer’s botanical bestseller, A Field Guide to Grasses, Sedges and Rushes. He is also director of The Species...
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Mountain Flowers: An interview with Michael Scott
Between book writing, Michael Scott spends a lot of each year as a speaker on cruise ships – here he is exploring the Kakum National Park in Ghana. Michael Scott is a nature writer and cruise ship...
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CCTV for Wildlife Monitoring: An interview with Susan Young
Susan Young – Author of CCTV for Wildlife Monitoring Susan Young is a writer and photographer with a background in physics and engineering. She is the author of the fantastic CCTV for Wildlife...
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Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: interview with James Eaton and Nick Brickle
Authors James Eaton (centre) and Nick Brickle (far left) with field staff from FFI on the trail of Sumatran Ground Cuckoo near Kerinci Seblat National Park in Sumatra Birds of the Indonesian...
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The Sensory Ecology of Birds: Interview with Graham Martin
The Sensory Ecology of Birds is a fascinating new work that explores the sensory world of birds from an evolutionary and ecological perspective. The author Professor Graham Martin gives us some...
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Orison for a Curlew: Interview with Horatio Clare
Orison for a Curlew takes us on a pilgrimage in search of the slender-billed curlew; once a common sight in its breeding grounds of Siberia, but now diminished to a handful of unconfirmed sightings. In...
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