How to Watch a Bird

As prize-winning journalist Steve Braunias stands on an apartment balcony on a sultry summer evening, a black-backed gull flies so close he is instantaneously bowled over with happiness: 'I thought: Birds, everywhere. I wanted to know more about them.' This book is the result - a wondrous personal journey into the amazing world of birds, and the people ensnared, captivated and entranced by them: the passionate tribe of bird-watchers and twitchers.Author BiographySteve Braunias is a staff writer for Metro magazine, has won nearly 40 national writing awards and fellowships to Oxford University and Cambridge University. He is also editor-in-residence at Waikato Institute of Technology's school of journalism and writes a much-followed weekly satirical diary for The Sunday Star-Times. His other books include Civilisation, Roosters I Have Known, Smoking in Antarctica and Fish of the Week.