Stephen Moss

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)[1]
• Bill Oddie Goes Wild (three series, 2001, 2002, and 2003)[1]
• Wild In Your Garden (2003)
• Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife (2004)[1]
• Springwatch with Bill Oddie (2005)[1]
• Birds Britannia (2010)[1]

For some of his BBC series, he also authored accompanying books. He left the BBC in 2011 to work as a freelancer.[1] He lectures at Bath Spa University and is a visiting professor at the University of Nottingham.[2][3]

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.[4]

He is married, with five children and lives in Somerset, having moved there from West London.

• A Guide to Garden Birds[5]

• 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
• Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife (Square Peg, 2016),(ISBN 9780099581635)
• The Robin: A Biography (Square Peg, 2017) ISBN 9781910931318
• The Wren: A Biography (Square Peg, 2018) ISBN 9781910931936
• Mrs Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names (Guardian Faber, 2018) ISBN 9781783350902
• Dynasties: The Rise and Fall of Animal Families (BBC Books, 2018) ISBN 978-1785943010 with David Attenborough
• The Accidental Countryside: Hidden Havens for Britain’s Wildlife (Guardian Faber, 2020) ISBN 978-1783351640

• Stephen Moss's Twitter stream (verified at )
• Articles written by Moss in The Guardian
• 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