Bird seeds, tallow balls, fruits, lard and feeders. Many of us feed birds in the winter, it is actually a more widespread occupation than you might think. It is estimated that half a million Swedish households feed birds in some way during the winter months.
This is a book about our most common winter birds, i.e. the birds that are around us during the colder months. It is in the winter that the birds become more visible and move closer to us humans to search for food in our gardens. The species are few and can be viewed up close, preferably from the kitchen window or your favorite armchair by the fire. Because it is in the meeting that you get to know birds and their behavior and characteristics. At least that's how the artist, writer and ornithologist Lars Jonsson feels. Here we get to meet all the usual species that flock around the bird table. Exuberant blue tits and chattering willow finches, ragged nuthatches scattering birdseed around them. Or the everyday greenfinch that is there but doesn't make a big fuss. All are the little birds that all flee the field when a sparrow hawk pulls through the garden. In Winter birds, the bird artist Lars Jonsson depicts forty common species in text and fantastic watercolors, all in a personal style. Although with the book you of course learn to identify the birds, it is just as important to tell about them in a way where field determination is combined with cultural history and personal observations.
Product information
Author & Illustrator: Lars Jonsson
Designers: Annika Lyth & Lars Jonsson
ISBN: 9789174244489
Language: Swedish
Weight: 1050 grams
Released: 2015-12-08
Publisher: Bonnier Fakta
Pages: 343