<p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As prize-winning journalist Steve Braunias stands on an apartment balcony on a sultry summer evening a black-backed gull flies so close he is instantaneously bowled over with happiness. I thought: Birds everywhere. I wanted to know more about them. This book is the result - a wondrous personal journey into the amazing world of birds and the people ensnared captivated and entranced by them: the passionate tribe of bird-watchers and twitchers.</span></p><p><br></p>