Rob Hume

Rob Hume is an English ornithologist, author and journalist specialising in avian and natural history subjects. Since Spring 1989 (vol. 12 no. 5), he has been editor of the RSPB's Birds magazine, having previously edited the young people's version, Bird Life, and been librarian at the RSPB's headquarters, The Lodge. Hume did his early birdwatching at Chasewater, Staffordshire, and was a member of the West Midland Bird Club. He is a past member (and the fifth chairman) of the British Birds Rarities Committee; and a past member of the editorial board of British Birds magazine,^[1] but resigned both posts in 1997. His autobiography, Life With Birds, was published in September 2005.

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• A Birdwatcher's Miscellany, Blandford Press, 1984 ISBN 0-7137-1385-2
• A Year of Bird Life, RSPB, 1985
• Birds of Britain, AA Publishing, 1988
• Birds by Character - Britain & Europe: A Fieldguide to Jizz, Macmillan, 1990
• Owls of the World Dragon's World, 1991
• Focus on Birdwatching Heinemann, 1992
• Discovering Birds, A & C Black, 1993
• The Common Tern, Hamlyn, 1993
• Seabirds (Hamlyn Bird Behaviour Guides) Hamlyn, 1993 (with illustrations by Bruce Pearson) ISBN 0-600-57951-4
• Collins Gem Photoguide Birdwatching, Collins, 1995
• The Shell Easy Bird Guide, (illustrated by Peter Hayman) Macmillan 1997
  • 2002 edition ISBN 0-333-65420-X
• The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds, T & A D Poyser, 1997 ISBN 0-85661-091-7 (contributor)
• Birds: An Artist's View, Courage Books, 1998
• Macmillan Bird Guide, Macmillan, 1998
• RSPB Birds of Britain and Europe, Dorling Kindersley, 2002
• RSPB Complete Birds of Britain and Europe, Dorling Kindersley, 2002, ISBN 0-7513-7354-0
  • RSPB Complete Birds of Britain and Europe (revised and updated), Dorling Kindersley, 2007, ISBN 9781405322287 (includes CD of birdsong)
• RSPB Birdwatching, Dorling Kindersley, 2003
• English Birds and Green Places: Selected Writings: A Selection from the Writings of W.H. Hudson (Introduction), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004 , ISBN 0-575-07207-5
• Life With Birds (autobiography), David & Charles, 2005, ISBN 0-7153-2181-1

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