Dominic Couzens

Dominic Michael Couzens (born January 3, 1963 in London ) is a British ornithologist , author and bioacoustic specialist .

Life

After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Portsmouth Polytechnic , Couzens has been working as a freelance ornithologist since 1988. He has also taught adult education at the University of Surrey and other institutions. In 1989 he was responsible for the electronic editing of the sound material (tape editor) at the National Sound Archive of the British Library in the wildlife area. From 1990 to 1992 he was a film archivist at the RSPB Film Unit. Between 1992 and the end of the 1990s, Couzens and John Henry Wyatt published the ten-part series of cassettes Teach Yourself Bird Sounds with bird sounds , which were recorded in a wide variety of habitats in Great Britain, including gardens, deciduous forests, pasture and scrubland, reed beds and open water, rivers and wet meadows, Heathland and moors, sea cliffs and islands, coniferous and mixed forests, estuaries and coasts as well as mountains and highland lakes were recorded. Couzens was responsible for both the recordings and the commentary as the author. He also writes for the magazines Bird Watching and BBC Wildlife . Since 1996 Couzens has published over 30 non-fiction and field guides, of which The Secret Lives of Garden Birds and The Secret Lives of British Birds were included in the list of the best nature books of the year by The Guardian in 2004 and 2006 . The Times rated The Secret Lives of Garden Wildlife as one of the best nature books of spring 2008.

Works (selection)

• The Mitchell Beazley Pocket Guide to Garden Birds (1996), Mitchell Beazley, ISBN 978-1-85732-495-2
• Wings Guide to British Birds (1997), Collins, ISBN 978-0-00-220069-1
• Collins Birds of Britain and Ireland (2001), Collins, ISBN 978-0-00-711112-1
• Collins Birds By Behavior (2003), Collins, ISBN 978-0-00-711549-5
• The Secret Lives of Garden Birds (2004), A&C Black, ISBN 978-0-7136-9286-0
• The Complete Back Garden Birdwatcher New Holland Publishers (2005) ISBN 1-84330-959-9
• Identifying British Birds Collins (2005) ISBN 0-00-719922-8
• Identifying Birds by Behavior Collins (2005) ISBN 0-00-719923-6
• Bird Migration New Holland Publishers, (2005) ISBN 1-84330-970-X
• Birds: A Complete Guide to all British and European Species (2005), Collins, ISBN 978-0-00-713821-0 (German: The great bird atlas: all European species. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-8001 -4989-6 )
• Secret Lives of British Birds (2006), Christopher Helm, ISBN 0-7136-7513-6
• Secret Lives of Garden Wildlife (2008), A&C Black, ISBN 978-0-7136-8534-3
• Extreme Birds: From the fastest to the smartest (2008), Collins, ISBN 978-0-00-727923-4 (German: Rekorde der Vogelwelt: 130 Extreme. Haupt Verlag, Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-258-07549- 5 )
• Top 100 Birding Sites of the World (2008), New Holland, ISBN 978-1-84773-109-8
• Atlas of Rare Birds (2010), MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-01517-2 (German: Seltene Vögel - Survivor, Evolution Loser and Disappeared. Haupt Verlag, Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-258-07629-4 )
• Top Birding Sites of Europe (2011), New Holland, ISBN 978-1-84773-767-0
• Garden Bird Confidential (2011), Hamlyn, ISBN 978-0-600-62052-5
• The Secret Lifes of Puffins (2013), Christopher Helm, ISBN 978-1-40818-667-1
• Tales of Remarkable Birds (2015), Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-1-40819-023-4
• Songs of Love and War (2017), Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-1-47290-991-6
• Britain's Mammals (2017), WILDGuides The Mammal Society, ISBN 978-0-69115-697-2

literature

• John E. Pemberton: Who's Who in Ornithology. Buckingham Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0951496589 , pp. 88-89.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Moss, Stephen (2004) Doing what comes naturalistically: Stephen Moss on the best wildlife books of 2004 , The Guardian , December 4, 2004, accessed April 2, 2015
2. ↑ Moss, Stephen (2006) The call of the wild: Stephen Moss goes foraging for the best of the year's nature books , The Guardian , November 25, 2006, accessed April 2, 2015
3. ↑ May, Derwent (2008) The best new nature books for Spring , The Times , May 22, 2008

Web links

• Birdwords - Official website of Dominic Couzens