This book is one of, if not, actually the largest collections of Bird related poetry by a single Author. Most of the Birds described are British and European Birds, but they have close cousins in North America. There are one or two interlopers from elsewhere. Even the humble cockerel has Far Eastern jungle origins, but is now global in its distribution. Observing Birds soon shows them to behave as individuals with traits that are acquired and not just from their species. Happily many Birds can be befriended, and they make excellent subjects for poetry.