Greenshanks as Gowin fosters awareness for

as Gowin fosters awareness for a part of nature that is generally left unobserved and calls for a greater awareness of the biodiversity and value of the tropics as a universally shared natural treasure

A comprehensive bibliography listing every significant reference

but enclosed in a protective plastic jacket

and the Middle East will be the standard work for identifying these birds for some time to come

detailed information about the birds likely to be seen

Greenshanks as Gowin fosters awareness forComplete natural history with illustrations by Donald Watson. Desmond Nethersole Thompson has been studying his favorite bird, the greenshank Tringa nebularia, since May 2931. He told the story of his early research much of it in Spey Valley, Inverness in Th Greenshank, published in theNew Naturalist series in 1951. That class, long out of print, is now a collector's item. This new book owes much to the interest, almost an obsession, of the Nethersole