Tales from Concrete Jungles

A collection of articles celebrating David Lindo's short birding trips to many cities in Britain and around the world.

Born and raised in London, David Lindo's passionate interest in the natural world, especially birds, began at an early age. His thriving curiosity opened a door for him into an unexplored world of urban birding. Years later he decided to champion the delights of birding in cities and reinvented himself as the Urban Birder.

Using this illustrious alias David Lindo has brought urban birding back into the public consciousness, promoting its virtues at every opportunity and writing about it in the birding press. He urges people to look up when walking around in cities, or to stop and close your eyes in a busy street just to listen to the birds that may be singing.

In his second book, David visits some of the world's most unnatural environments, revealing the astonishingly diverse range of wildlife that can be found when you take the time to look. Much more than a compendium of birding sites, each tale follows the Urban Birder in his enthralling pursuit of city birding. Accompanied by dedicated local conservationists and renowned birders, David gives a deeper insight into the true nature of each city.

Featuring 70 locations to explore, Tales from Concrete Jungles is the perfect book to dip in to when on the move, or to hide away with on a rainy afternoon. Join David in his celebration of nature, pick up travel inspiration, and immerse yourself in his captivating quest for urban birding.

Autorentext

David Lindo is the Urban Birder. He has passionately promoted the virtues of birding in the urban environment at every opportunity, and especially through frequent articles in the birding press and on his appearances on television and radio. He was brought up in London and has been a birder all his life. His first book, The Urban Birder, chronicled his transformation from baby birder to fully-fledged superstar of the urban birding world.

Inhalt

Introduction

Being an Urban Birder
Uncle Birds
Love Story
Birds on Film
Viva Ronaldo
Catch the Pigeon
Dangerous Urban Birding
Identifying Birders
The Ones that Got Away
My Hate Affair with Parakeets
Airport Birding

The British Isles and Ireland
Aberlady Bay, East Lothian, Scotland
Alderney, Channel Islands
Belfast, Northern Island
Bradford, Yorkshire
Brighton, Sussex
Bristol, Avon
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Croydon, Surrey
Derby, Derbyshire
Eastbourne, Sussex
Exeter, Devon
Gibraltar Point, Lincolnshire
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Hartlepool, Country Durham
Hull, Yorkshire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Lowestoft, Suffolk
Manchester, Lancashire
Milton Keyes, Buckinghamshire
Northumberland and North Tyneside
Norwich, Norfolk
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Plymouth, Devon
Sheffield, Yorkshire
Southend, Essex
St Albans, Hertfordshire
Staines, Surrey
Stockton and Middlesbrough
The Olympic Park, London
Tower 42 and Canary Wharf, London
Wormword Scrubs and Beddington Farmlands, London
Wormwood Scrubs, London
York, Yorkshire

Europe
Alentejo Region, Portugal
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Azores
Belgrade, Serbia
Bratislava, Slovakia
Brussels, Belgium
Budapest, Hungary
Helsinki, Finland
Kraków, Poland
Lisbon, Portugal
Merida and Cáceres, Spain
Paris, France
Prague, Czech Republic
Reykjavik, Iceland
Valencia, Spain

The Rest of the World
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Bangkok, Thailand
Cape May, New Jersey, USA
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Istanbul, Turkey
Jerusalem, Israel
Nairobi, Kenya
Port Aransas, Texas, USA
São Paulo, Brazil
Taipei, Taiwan
Tucson, Arizona, USA
West Hollywood, USA
Yucatan, Mexico

Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Index