Stephen Moss

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Stephen Moss
Nationality	British
Known for	Wildlife documentaries; accompanying books
Awards	Dilys Breese Medal

Stephen Moss is a British natural historian, birder, author and television producer. He is married, with five children (including a pair of twins), and lives in Somerset, having moved there from West London.

He is best known for producing wildlife series, many of them presented by Bill Oddie, including:

• Birding with Bill Oddie (three series, 1997, 1998 and 2000)
• Bill Oddie Goes Wild (three series, 2001, 2002 and 2003)
• Wild In Your Garden (2003)
• Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife (2005)
• Springwatch with Bill Oddie (2005)
• Birds Britannia (2010)

For some of these, he also authored accompanying books.

In 2009, he was one of the first recipients of the British Trust for Ornithology's Dilys Breese Medal, at a ceremony at the House of Lords.

Radio programmes

• A Guide to Garden Birds

Bibliography & references

• BBC Weather Watch (BBC Books 1992), ISBN 0-563-36486-6, with Paul Simons
• Birds and Weather: A Birdwatchers' Guide (Hamlyn 1995), ISBN 0-600-58679-0
• The Complete Garden Bird Book: How to Identify and Attract Birds to Your Garden (New Holland 1996), ISBN 1-85368-580-1, with Mark Golley
• Birding with Bill Oddie (BBC Books 1997), ISBN 0-563-38748-3, with Bill Oddie
• Attracting Birds to Your Garden (New Holland 1998), ISBN 1-85368-569-0
• Gardening for Birds: How to Help Birds Make the Most of Your Garden (HarperCollins 2000), ISBN 0-00-220168-2 (repr. 2004 as Bird-friendly Garden)
• Bird Boxes and Feeders: Featuring 11 Step-by-step Woodworking Projects (New Holland 2001), ISBN 1-85974-175-4, with Alan & Gill Bridgewater
• The Garden Bird Handbook: How to Attract, Identify and Watch the Birds in Your Garden (New Holland 2003), ISBN 1-84330-124-5
• Understanding Bird Behaviour (New Holland 2003), ISBN 1-84330-151-2
• How to Birdwatch (New Holland 2003), ISBN 1-84330-154-7
• Blokes and Birds (New Holland 2003), ISBN 1-84330-484-8 (ed.)
• Garden Birds (HarperCollins 2004), ISBN 0-00-717614-7
• A Bird in the Bush: A Social History of Birdwatching (Aurum 2004), ISBN 1-85410-993-6
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Birds… But Were Afraid to Ask! (Christopher Helm 2005), ISBN 0-7136-6815-6
• Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife (HarperCollins 2005), ISBN 0-00-718455-7, with Bill Oddie and Fiona Pitcher
• This Birding Life: The Best of The Guardian's "Birdwatch" (Aurum 2006), ISBN 1-84513-180-0
• The Private Life of Birds (New Holland 2006), ISBN 1-84537-422-3
• Birder's Companion (Firefly 2007), ISBN 978-1-55407-212-5
• The Bumper Book of Nature (Square Peg), ISBN 978-0-224-08616-5
• A Sky Full of Starlings: A Diary of a Birding Year (Aurum 2008), ISBN 1-84513-353-6
• Wild Hares and Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village (Square Peg, 2011), ISBN 9780099552468

External links

• Stephen Moss's Twitter stream (verified at [1])
• Review of Blokes and Birds at the Wayback Machine (archived 8 January 2009)
• The Official "The Bumper Book of Nature" website with podcasts, quizzes and a blog by Stephen Moss