The bird watcher in the Shetlands. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Edmund Selous   -  Edmund Selous, 2016  - 

IN the spring of 1900 I paid my first visit to the Shetlands, and most of what I then saw is embodied in my work Bird Watching. Two years afterwards I went there again, arriving somewhat later, and it is the notes made by me during this second stay which fill the greater number of these pages.

Bird watching. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Edmund Selous   -  Edmund Selous, 2015  - 

I should like to explain that this work, being, with one or two insignificant exceptions, a record of my own observations only, it has not been my intention to make general statements in regard to the habits of any particular bird. In practice, however, it is often difficult to write as if one were not doing this, without its having a very clumsy effect. One cannot, for instance, always say, "I have seen birds fly."