Inn Search of Birds: Pubs, People and Places

Most birders keep lists of the species birds they have seen, but do any keep a list of pub birds, that is birds on pub signs and in pub names? This book is about these pub birds, their natural histories, folk-histories and those of the pubs that bear their names, some of the people involved in the story, and the memories that pub birds have evoked over a birding lifetime.

This may appear to be a niche aspect of birding but before the advent of modern technology, pubs in ‘good birding spots' ...