Piers Hayman, an Englishman with as lifelong passion for birds, came to New Zealand and was entranced by the new birds he encountered and astonished by the ways his familiar European birds had adapted themselves to their new environment , He is a bird artist and writer with an international reputation who not only shares with us his own delight in discovering the birds of New Zealand , but also invests them with their own international character. His light but informative text mixes facts with humorous anecdote to tell us a great deal about our birds and not a little about ourselves.

Hard cover with dust jacket, book in very good condition, first edition 1984