He sets himself the task of distilling the latest specialist research for a wider audience and he succeeds triumphantly.'-Jonathan Wright, The Glasgow Herald 'A triumph! Everything you wanted to know about suburban birds-and more.'-Tim Birkhead, author of Bird Sense and Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin 'With enthusiasm, wit, and compelling scholarship, John Marzluff challenges us to reconsider a forgotten landscape. There are awful statistics -about cats especially, but also skyscraper collisions, poisons and habitat loss- and many happily more positive ones.'-Rob Hume, Birdwatch 'I have the greatest admiration for Marzluff's passionate book. this book is a terrific compilation of facts about suburban wildlife (much more than birds, and well beyond its US core). But, he argues passionately, intelligently and with scientific authority, any land-use change reweaves the ecological web, and may leave it threadbare.'-Nature '.

Most highly recommended for all interested in wildlife, city planning, and urban ecology.'-Library Journal (starred review) 'As Marzluff shows in this rich account of fieldwork in `metropolitan wilds' from New Zealand to Costa Rica, such annexed environments - which boast some 75 billion trees in the United States alone - can host an astounding diversity of birds. 'This excellent book documents engagingly how wildlife has adapted to urban and suburban areas, often in surprising ways.

Welcome to Subirdia by John M. Marzluff