The Birds of Needs Ore

The Birds of Needs Ore by Chris Button is now available. If you’re interested in purchasing a copy (£25 + £3.50 postage) then contact me by e-mail at chris@needsore.com or by phone 07425 162539.

It is a complete review of one hundred years of bird records from Needs Ore on the Beaulieu Estuary. A journey through the seasons of this key county site for ground-nesting waders and wildfowl. It includes a guide to the reserve, a detailed analysis of the 277 bird species that have been recorded here, a diary of the rarities including ten first records for Hampshire and with over 800 illustrations, photos, graphs and tables.

Lady Montagu – “I am writing to thank you for the magnificent The Birds of Needs Ore which you were kind enough to send us. As well as being a valuable and meticulous piece of work, it is visually stunning and quite staggering for us to realise that all of these birds have at some time or other been seen on the reserve. I will be consulting it often, and we will both learn a lot from it about our own estate, whose true residents by right are presented in your book”

other feedback

“May we congratulate you on your wonderful book, it’s amazing. We’ve hardly put it down
since we had it! We are learning so much about Needs Ore that we didn’t know before”
“many thanks for a fantastic book”
“A couple of hours thumbing through, what a great book! Look forward to some winter night
reading in depth”
“A wonderful publication”
“Lovely images and text brilliant”
“It’s brilliant and I seriously appreciate how much time and effort must have gone into
the making. Many congratulations!”
“Many congratulations on producing such an excellent and beautifully illustrated work – the
fruit of many years of observing and much hard and detailed work”
“A wonderful record”
“Wow what a beautiful book. Fabulous photos and wonderful illustrations by you”
“Cracking book. Looks amazing”
“the Birds of Needs Ore is a herculean effort, and to do it all so quickly, to just sit down and do this, to plough on single-handedly and to summon up your own motivation is some damn effort, some achievement”