Stephen Moss
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Stephen Moss (born in 1960) is a British natural historian, birder, author, and television producer.
Early life
Moss gained an honours degree in English Literature from the University of Cambridge.[1]
Career
Moss is best known for producing wildlife series for the BBC, many of them presented by Bill Oddie, including:
- Birding with Bill Oddie (three series, 1997, 1998, and 2000)[2]
- Bill Oddie Goes Wild (three series, 2001, 2002, and 2003)[2]
- Wild In Your Garden (2003)
- Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife (2004)[2]
- Springwatch with Bill Oddie (2005)[2]
- Birds Britannia (2010)[2]
For some of his series, Moss also authored accompanying books. He left the BBC in 2011 to work as a freelancer.[2] He lectures at Bath Spa University and is a visiting professor at the University of Nottingham.[3][1]
In 2009, Moss was one of the first recipients of the British Trust for Ornithology's Dilys Breese Medal, at a ceremony at the House of Lords.[4]
One of his works, The Accidental Countryside, was included in the 2025 AQA English Language Paper 2 GCSE exam.
Personal life
Moss is married, with five children, and lives in Somerset, having moved there from West London.[5]
Radio programmes
- A Guide to Garden Birds[6]
Bibliography
- BBC Weather Watch (BBC Books 1992), Template:ISBN, with Paul Simons
- Birds and Weather: A Birdwatchers' Guide (Hamlyn 1995), Template:ISBN
- The Complete Garden Bird Book: How to Identify and Attract Birds to Your Garden (New Holland 1996), Template:ISBN, with Mark Golley
- Birding with Bill Oddie (BBC Books 1997), Template:ISBN, with Bill Oddie
- Attracting Birds to Your Garden (New Holland 1998), Template:ISBN
- Gardening for Birds: How to Help Birds Make the Most of Your Garden (HarperCollins 2000), Template:ISBN (repr. 2004 as Bird-friendly Garden)
- Bird Boxes and Feeders: Featuring 11 Step-by-step Woodworking Projects (New Holland 2001), Template:ISBN, with Alan & Gill Bridgewater
- The Garden Bird Handbook: How to Attract, Identify and Watch the Birds in Your Garden (New Holland 2003), Template:ISBN
- Understanding Bird Behaviour (New Holland 2003), Template:ISBN
- How to Birdwatch (New Holland 2003), Template:ISBN
- Blokes and Birds (New Holland 2003), Template:ISBN (ed.)
- Garden Birds (HarperCollins 2004), Template:ISBN
- A Bird in the Bush: A Social History of Birdwatching (Aurum 2004), Template:ISBN
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Birds… But Were Afraid to Ask! (Christopher Helm 2005), Template:ISBN
- Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife (HarperCollins 2005), Template:ISBN, with Bill Oddie and Fiona Pitcher
- This Birding Life: The Best of The Guardian's "Birdwatch" (Aurum 2006), Template:ISBN
- The Private Life of Birds (New Holland 2006), Template:ISBN
- Birder's Companion (Firefly 2007), Template:ISBN
- The Bumper Book of Nature (Square Peg), Template:ISBN
- A Sky Full of Starlings: A Diary of a Birding Year (Aurum 2008), Template:ISBN
- Wild Hares and Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village (Square Peg, 2011), Template:ISBN
- Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife (Square Peg, 2016),(Template:ISBN)
- The Robin: A Biography (Square Peg, 2017) Template:ISBN
- The Wren: A Biography (Square Peg, 2018) Template:ISBN
- Mrs Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names (Guardian Faber, 2018) Template:ISBN
- Dynasties: The Rise and Fall of Animal Families (BBC Books, 2018) Template:ISBN with David Attenborough
- The Accidental Countryside: Hidden Havens for Britain’s Wildlife (Guardian Faber, 2020) Template:ISBN
- The Swallow: A Biography (Square Peg, 2020) Template:ISBN
- Skylarks with Rosie: A Somerset Spring (Saraband, 2021) Template:ISBN
- The Swan: A Biography (Square Peg, 2021) Template:ISBN
- The Owl: A Biography (Square Peg, 2023) Template:ISBN
- The Starling: A Biography (Square Peg, 2024) Template:ISBN
References
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External links
- Stephen Moss's Twitter stream (verified at [1])
- Articles written by Moss in The Guardian
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- The Official "The Bumper Book of Nature" website with podcasts, quizzes and a blog by Stephen Moss