Rob Hume

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Rob Hume is an English ornithologist, author and journalist specialising in avian and natural history subjects. He is editor of the RSPB's Birds magazine, having previously edited the young people's version, Bird Life, and been librarian at the RSPB's headquarters, The Lodge.

Hume did his early birdwatching at Chasewater, Staffordshire, and was a member of the West Midland Bird Club.

He is a past member and chairman of the British Birds Rarities Committee; and a past member of the editorial board of British Birds magazine^[1], but resigned both posts in 1997.

His autobiography, Life With Birds, was published in September 2005.

[edit] Bibilography

• A Birdwatcher's Miscellany, Blandford Press, 1984 ISBN 0-7137-1385-2
• A Year of Bird Life, RSPB, 1985
• Birds of Britain, AA Publishing, 1988
• Birds by Character - Britain & Europe: A Fieldguide to Jizz, Macmillan, 1990
• Owls of the World Dragon's World, 1991
• Focus on Birdwatching Heinemann, 1992
• Discovering Birds, A & C Black, 1993
• The Common Tern, Hamlyn, 1993
• Seabirds (Hamlyn Bird Behaviour Guides) Hamlyn, 1993 (with illustrations by Bruce Pearson) ISBN 0-600-57951-4
• Collins Gem Photoguide Birdwatching, Collins, 1995
• The Shell Easy Bird Guide, 1997
• The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds, T & A D Poyser, 1997 ISBN 0-85661-091-7 (contributor)
• Birds: An Artist's View, Courage Books, 1998
• Macmillan Bird Guide, Macmillan, 1998
• RSPB Birds of Britain and Europe, Dorling Kindersley, 2002
• RSPB Complete Birds of Britain and Europe, Dorling Kindersley, 2002, ISBN 0-7513-7354-0
• RSPB Birdwatching, Dorling Kindersley, 2003
• English Birds and Green Places: Selected Writings: A Selection from the Writings of W.H. Hudson (Introduction), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004 , ISBN 0-575-07207-5
• Life With Birds (autobiography), David & Charles, 2005, ISBN 0-7153-2181-1

[edit] Reference

1. ^ A history of British Birds, Malcolm Ogilvie, James Ferguson-Lees and Richard Chandler, British Birds 100 (2007) 3-15