by Stephen Moss
Upupa epops see hoopoe
Ursus arctos isabellinus see bear, brown
Usambara Mountains, Tanzania 1, 2
Valverde, Tono 1
van Deemter, Kees 1n
van den Berg, Arnoud 1
Vaughan Williams, Ralph 1
Victor, Jean 1
Victoria, Queen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Victorian period 1
Vieillot, Louis 1
Viking invasion 1n, 2, 3, 4
Voous, Karel 1
Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay, The (Phillip) 1
vulture classification 1, 2
Egyptian 1n
waders 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
wagtail blue-headed 1
grey 1, 2, 3
pied (Motacilla alba yarrelli) 1n, 2, 3n, 4
white (Motacilla alba alba) 1n, 2
Willie 1, 2
yellow 1, 2, 3
Wales 1, 2, 3
Wallace, Alfred Russel 1
Wallace, Ian 1, 2, 3
Waltham Abbey, Essex 1, 2
War of Independence 1
warbler aberrant 1
aquatic 1n
Balearic 1n
Blackburnian 1n, 2, 3
‘black-capped’ 1, 2 see also blackcap
blackpoll 1n
Bonelli’s 1
Cetti’s 1, 2, 3, 4
Dartford (Fauvette pitchou) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7
garden 1, 2, 3
‘grass’/’leaf’ 1
grasshopper 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6
Hume’s leaf 1n
MacGillivray’s 1
magnolia 1n
Marmora’s 1n, 2
marsh 1, 2
‘marsh and tree’ 1
melodious (Hippolais polyglotta) 1
Moltoni’s 1n
Mrs Moreau’s (Winifred’s) (Scepomycter winifredae) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Old/New World 1, 2, 3
paddyfield 1n
Pallas’s 1n
Radde’s (Phylloscopus schwarzi) 1, 2
reed 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5n, 6, 7, 8
river 1n
Savi’s 1, 2, 3
sedge 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6
Tristram’s 1n
‘true’ 1
‘white-throated’ 1, 2 see also whitethroat
willow 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6, 7, 8, 9
Wilson’s 1n
wood 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
wood- (New World) 1
yellow 1n see also blackcap; chiffchaff
Waste Land, The (Eliot) 1
Water Birds (Bewick) 1, 2
Watson, Chris 1n
waxbill, yellow-bellied 1
waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) 1
Welsh language 1, 2
West Africa 1
Western Isles, Scotland 1, 2, 3
‘Wetmore Order’ 1
Wetmore, Alexander 1
wheatear 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Hume’s 1n
Isabelline 1, 2
northern 1, 2, 3
origin of name 1
Tristram’s 1n
wheel, invention of 1
whimbrel 1n, 2, 3n, 4n
whinchat 1
White, Gilbert 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
whitethroat 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9n, 10 Hume’s 1n
lesser 1
Whitney, Bret M. 1n
wigeon 1, 2, 3n, 4
Wilde, Oscar 1
William I, King 1
Willughby, Francis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Wilson, Alexander 1n
Wilson, Edward ‘Bill’ 1
‘wind-hover’/ ‘windfucker’ 1 see also kestrel
‘The Windhover’ (Hopkins) 1
winter, British 1946–7 1
1962–3 1
visitors 1
Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire 1
woodcock 1n, 2n
woodlark 1, 2, 3
woodpecker 1, 2, 3, 4 great spotted (pied) 1n
green 1n, 2
lesser spotted (barred) 1n
woodswallow 1
Wordsworth, William 1
World Cup football (1970) 1
World Land Trust 1n
World War First 1, 2
Second 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Worst Journey in the World, The (Cherry-Garrard) 1
Worsthorne, Peregrine 1
Worthies of England (Fuller) 1
wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 fairy- 1, 2
fulvous 1
‘furze’ 1, 2 see also warbler, Dartford
‘golden-crested’ 1, 2n, 3, 4 see also goldcrest
Jenny 1n, 2
‘peacock-’ 1n see also lyrebird
‘reed’ 1 see also warbler, reed
‘willow-’ 1, 2, 3 see also warbler, willow
‘wood-’ 1 see also warbler, wood
Wright, John 1
Wright, Minturn 1
wryneck 1, 2n
Wuthering Heights (Brontë) 1
WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) 1, 2
Yakutia, Siberia 1
Yale University 1
Yare Valley, Norfolk 1
Yarrell, William 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
yellowhammer 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
yellowthroat 1
Yoon, Carol Kaesuk 1n
Zoologist (journal) 1
About the Author
Stephen Moss is a naturalist, broadcaster, television producer and author. In a distinguished career at the BBC Natural History Unit his credits included Springwatch, Birds Britannia and The Nature of Britain. His books include The Robin: A Biography, A Bird in the Bush, The Bumper Book of Nature, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds and Wild Kingdom. He is also Senior Lecturer in Nature and Travel Writing at Bath Spa University. Originally from London, he lives with his family on the Somerset Levels, and is President of the Somerset Wildlife Trust.
Also by the Author
Selected titles by Stephen Moss:
A BIRD IN THE BUSH: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF BIRDWATCHING
WILD HARES AND HUMMINGBIRDS
WILD KINGDOM
THE ROBIN: A BIOGRAPHY
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