John McEwen

What’s eating London’s songbirds?

Andrew Self's The Birds of London is a thorough and entertaining history, but far too sympathetic to predators and bureaucrats

The ring-necked parakeet, one of the most successful birds to colonise London, still looks conspicuously out of place in Hyde Park in the snow [Getty Images]

  • The Birds of London

    Andrew Self

    Bloomsbury/Christopher Helm, pp. 432

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