Cover of Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book

Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book

'Bird-watchers are tense, competitive, selfish, shifty, dishonest distrusting, boorish, pedantic, unsentimental, arrogant and - above all - envious.'

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So says Bill Oddie, and he should know. He's been a bird-watcher for over thirty years. He's probably the only person ho could have written this book. Only he combines the inside knowledge with the tactlessness and lack of decency required to spill the beans. The misery, the scandal, the heartbreak of bird-watching - it's all in BILL ODDIE'S LITTLE BLACK BIRD BOOK.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 150 pages

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