Stephen Moss - Author & Journalist

I love writing about nature – there is something about the act of putting my experiences down on paper, so that others can share them, that is a real privilege. Whereas making television programmes is an essentially collaborative experience, writing is intensely personal – and the more I write, the more I feel the need to explore the important issues of the day from a personal perspective.

I have written more than 20 books on birds and wildlife, including:

• Wild Hares and Hummingbirds: the natural history of an English village
  (Vintage, 2012) – a personal account of a year in the British countryside, at a time of great change. Read more »
• Birds Britannia
  (HarperCollins, 2011) – accompanying the BBC4 series on the British and their love of birds.
• The Bumper Book of Nature
  (Square Peg, 2009) – a family guide to getting children back in touch with nature.
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• A Sky Full of Starlings
  (Aurum, 2008) – the diary of a birding year.
• This Birding Life; the best of the Guardian’s Birdwatch
  (Aurum, 2006) – a collection of short articles, many of them autobiographical.
• A Bird in the Bush: a social history of birdwatching
  (Aurum, 2005) – an in-depth examination of why we watch birds, and how this has changed over the centuries.
• Birds and Weather
  (Hamlyn, 1995) – a study of how birds are affected by weather, climate and climate change.

As a journalist, I write for a number of newspapers and magazines:

• A monthly Birdwatch column for the Guardian
  www.guardian.co.uk/environment/birdwatching
• I also write for other publications, including the Independent, BBC Wildlife and BBC Countryfile, Birdwatch and Birdwatching magazines.