Author: Ian Parsons
After a 20-year career as a forest ranger Ian started his own bird watching tour company in Extremadura, Spain. He has written articles for various magazines and is a regular contributor to Bird Watching magazine. He is the author of A Vulture Landscape, Seasonality and the forthcoming Great Misconceptions, Rewilding Myths and Misunderstandings.
A Vulture Landscape is more than just a book about vultures, in the same way that these majestic flyers are more than just birds. Vultures are a crucial part of many of the world’s ecosystems, and without these specialist environmental cleansers the ecosystems wouldn’t work p... more...
The term rewilding has become part of the common vernacular and with it has come a lot of misunderstanding and even misuse. This has led to a great many misconceptions about what the word actually means. Great Misconceptions brings together different writers, with different experiences, exploring... more...
Trees and birds go together, and they have done for millions of years, evolving long before we did. Over their long and shared history, they have formed numerous relationships, some of which are basic and obvious to us, like a bird using a tree to perch in whilst searching for food. Others are mo... more...
Seasonality is an uplifting look at British wildlife through the seasons of the year, but it is also about our relationship with that wildlife. The author, a keen and passionate naturalist, takes us on a journey through spring, summer, autumn and winter, and on this journey we look at how our wil... more...
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