Be a Birder: The joy of birdwatching and how to get started

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With practical advice and personal anecdotes, you will learn how to get started in birdwatching and hone your identification skills to become an experienced twitcher. Biography: Hamza Yassin is a Scottish wildlife cameraman and presenter, a skilled ornithologist and the winner of the 2022 season of Strictly Come Dancing.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It has always been my dream to inspire others to discover and protect the amazing birds inhabiting our incredible natural world. I also loved the ‘three words to describe the bird’ feature, which always managed to be perfect and utterly spot on! Hamza Yassin is a Scottish wildlife cameraman and presenter, a skilled ornithologist and the winner of the 2022 season of Strictly Come Dancing.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

He was lovely with everyone (especially the kids) and dealt with the constant attention so well, never seeming like he’d rather not interact – in fact I had to keep telling people to move on as they were having such a long chat! This book is pure serotonin, and I am genuinely sorry that I’ve finished it, because many times I’ve come to it feeling a bit down and two paragraphs in, I feel like myself again. From the introduction to Hamza and how he became a well known wildlife photographer, to the description of birds to help the novice identify them. i am not a birdwatcher and know nothing much about wildlife, but as someone who is looking to score nature documentaries for a career this was so interesting to read from an inside perspective ! Wildlife cameraman, presenter and Strictly winner Hamza Yassin recounts stories of his birding adventures and shares his tricks and tips for starting birdwatching.I hope to encourage more birding enthusiasts to share the love I have for these creatures and the planet we share with them. Since then, Hamza has appeared on The One Show, Countryfile and is a presenter on the long-running BBC series Animal Park. Hamza is so amazingly observant about these quirky little creatures we see all around us, their ingenious strategies in finding food, mating, or avoiding predation.

Through his progression to become a videographer and more, he shares his expertise, drops bird knowledge bombs and entertains you along the way. The book will be published as a highly-illustrated gift hardback for a middle-grade audience in October 2024. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. Hamza Yassin has become a familiar television favourite as his film making of wildlife is widely seen. Hamza lives in a rural part of the west coast of Scotland, with wildlife and nature right on his doorstop as a constant inspiration for his work.Packed with fantastic facts and figures, lists and infographics, illustrated with pictures and photos and all wrapped up in Hamza's own stories of his adventures in nature, this really will teach you everything there is to know about the planet. Gaia has acquired Be a Birder from Scottish wildlife cameraman, presenter and “Strictly Come Dancing” star Hamza Yassin. Discover the wonderful world of birdwatching with wildlife cameraman Hamza Yassin – winner of BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing 2022. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. In 2023, Hamza’s first book, Be a Birder: The joy of birdwatching and how to get started, was published by Gaia, Octopus Books.

Hamza’s enthusiasm becomes your enthusiasm as you read on through his own experiences of becoming passionate about the natural world.This book reads like a novel not like a traditional bird book so keeps the reader engaged and entertained whilst building up knowledge. Macmillan Children’s Books has pre-empted Wild World, a "fun fact-filled book" about the natural world from wildlife cameraman, conservationist and presenter Hamza Yassin. We hope you will be delighted with every purchase, but if not, we will offer you a replacement or a full refund - whatever the reason. Morgan added: “Hamza is the perfect person to speak to children and their families about nature and conservation.