Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald (1900–1981)

Double-page spreads for each of twenty four species, with a page of simple text facing a full-page, full-colour illustration of the adult bird in its typical habitat, often pairs of male and female, sometimes with chicks, with an inset illustration of the egg to scale. The species portrayed are redshank, meadow pipit, sparrow-hawk, little owl, coal tit, corn bunting, wheatear, sedge warbler, reed warbler, brambling, whitethroat, red-backed shrike, house-sparrow, tree-sparrow, blackcap, herring gull, rook, stonechat, oyster-catcher, swift, goldcrest, wood warbler, curlew and great crested grebe. A good example of the classic non-fiction Ladybird Book.… (more)