Bird School: A Beginner In The Wood

Bird School is Adam Nicolson's account of learning to know birds, written from the perspective of a self-described beginner who comes to the subject late and with genuine curiosity. Set largely in and around a wood on his land in Sussex, the book follows a year of close observation, tracing the habits, behaviors, and presences of the birds that inhabit the same landscape he does. Nicolson writes about birds not as a cataloguer but as someone trying to understand what it means to share a place with other species.

Published in hardcover by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Bird School is Nicolson's most intimate work of natural history, drawing on the same attention to land and ecology that shaped Life Between the Tides and Sea Room. It is written for readers interested in nature writing, ornithology, and the literature of place.