Waders: Their Breeding Haunts, and Watchers

Poyser Monographs

by Desmond Nethersole-Thompson, Maimie Nethersole-Thompson

..a landmark in the study of (wader) biology. It will be welcomed by professionals and amateurs and both will find it an invaluable source of reference, enjoyment and ideas for the future. --Ibis Illustrated by Donald Watson

424 pages, Hardcover

First published January 28, 1991

About the author

Desmond Nethersole-Thompson (1908 - 1989) was a teacher, ornithologist and writer. Of Irish stock, Nethersole-Thompson was brought up in the south of England, and educated at St Paul's School, London and the London School of Economics. From the 1930s he spent most of his life in Scotland and is notable for his contribution to ornithology through his monographs on various birds of the Scottish Highlands, as well as his other writings. He was one of a generation of country-lovers who transferred their field craft from stalking, hunting and collecting to observing the previously unstudied behaviours of wild animals.