John Gooders

John Gooders was a writer who first came to prominence with his first book "Where to Watch Birds" At the time he was a teacher, and a lecturer at a college of education. and has retained an interest in birds since.

Television Biography

In 1970 after taking two months off on the Churchill Fellowship in which he studied bird migration through North Africa, he launched his own magazine called the "The World of Birds", he then finished up working for Anglia Television's "Survival"series, and edited the company's house magazine "The World of Survival"

Later Biography

John now devotes himself to full-time writing about birds and natural history. With his wife Sue, they spend their days between London and Sussex, sorting out the problems with their two children [Taken from "A Day in the Country", published by Leisure Circle in 1979]

Bibliography

* "Where to Watch Birds"
* "Where to Watch Birds in Europe"
* "How to Watch Birds"
* "Wildlife Paradises"
* "The Bird-watchers Book"
* "Birds - A Survey of the Bird Families of the World"
* "A Day in the Country"
* "Wildlife Photography" (with Eric Hosking)
* "Birds of the World" (Editor of Nine Volumes)
* "The Encyclopedia of Birds" (Editor of Seven Volumes)

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