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.<ref name="bathspa">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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)<ref name="TV"/>
• Bill Oddie Goes Wild (three series, 2001, 2002, and 2003)<ref name="TV"/>
• Wild In Your Garden (2003)
• Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife (2004)<ref name="TV"/>
• Springwatch with Bill Oddie (2005)<ref name="TV"/>
• Birds Britannia (2010)<ref name="TV"/>

For some of his series, Moss also authored accompanying books. He left the BBC in 2011 to work as a freelancer.<ref name="TV">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He lectures at Bath Spa University and is a visiting professor at the University of Nottingham.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="bathspa"/>

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.<ref name="Whitby">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

Moss is married, with five children, and lives in Somerset, having moved there from West London.<ref>Moss, Stephen, Skylarks with Rosie: A Somerset Spring (Salford: Saraband, 2021), p. 10.</ref>

Radio programmes

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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

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