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Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book (Paperback)

by Bill Oddie (Author)
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  • Paperback: 158 pages
  • Publisher: Robson Books Ltd; New edition edition (1 Jan 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0860519597
  • ISBN-13: 978-0860519591
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 14 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 153,839 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant expose of the seedy underbelly of birding., 23 Oct 2000
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There are few books that we can truly say affect us throughout our life. My personal list include Lolita, Heart of Darkness, Quo Vadis .... and Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book. To say that it rocked my life's foundations would be an understatement. It unashamedly ripped me away from being a young impressionable young man perfectly content at watching a flock of "waders" wheel dramatically against a winter skyline, to now cursing the low sun because I can't get any feather detail on the end one that looks a "bit small for a Dunlin". This book is about birds and birders, but if you want to look for philosophical debate it will also tell you a lot about why certain people spot trains, collect Toby Mugs, or never miss a match neither home nor away for 23 years. But it's really about birds.

If you're a bird-watcher you must read this book. If you're a birder, you already have. And if you're neither it'll turn you off bird-watching for ever, which as Bill says is no bad thing because there's too many of us already.

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Is it an albatross I see on the horizon, or a plastic bucket, 5 Oct 2003
By Sally-Anne "mynameissally" (Leicestershire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Very funny and most of it true, probably. Heaps of information about people who are involved in bird orientated pass times. The two main categories are "birders" and "twitchers" though Bill does refer briefly to "ornithologists" and "dudes". "Bird watcher ... is not the correct term." The correct one, "birder", refers to folks who go out looking for birds and involves "ruggedness" and athleticism". So what's a person who watches birds from the comfort of their living room arm chair then? That's me. Persona non grata in the vocabulary of birders and twitchers.

This book serves as both a guide and a warning - a bit like a hand book on drugs (I imagine). Don't do it! But if you must do it, you'll need the following clothing, equipment, mentality and so on. If there was ever any danger of my drifting towards a life of birding, then degenerating into a mad twitcher, this book has saved me. Who would want to be "gripped off" by some smug neurotic in a grubby anorak? What bird lovers would mercilessly chase rare (in this country at least) birds that have been blown off course and accidentally landed in Britain, when all the poor little beggars want, is to catch their breath and get their bearings? No, I'll stick with watching my garden birds and recording what I see on the garden bird survey form. Thanks Bill.

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5.0 out of 5 stars He's a bit mental really - but in a good way, 27 Aug 2006
By Big Mick (Belfast N. Ireland) - See all my reviews
A wonderful read with a whole load of information. It takes on the feel of a group therapy session - "My name is Bill and I am addicted to small feathered animals". If you share this strange fixation and want to find a name for your obsession this is the book for you.

I enjoyed the wonderful chapter on what a bird officianado calls themselves. From hard core "twitcher" to "not an ornithologist". There are many more titles for you to conjure with. "Bird fancier" isn't good. Apparantly.

A good giggle.
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