In pursuit of those moments of feeling 'sharply alive', confronting fear of the body's betrayals, and roaming across Wales, Scotland, California and the Middle East, Birdsplaining is unapologetically focused on the uniqueness of women’s experience of nature and the constraints placed upon it. Sometimes bristling, always ethical, it upends familiar ways of seeing the natural world.

• Birdsplaining: A Note Before Reading
• 1. Reading the Signs
• 2. Field Guides
• 3. Mansplaining the Wild
• 4. Boggy Ground
• 5. Curious Bodies
• 6. Uninvited Guests
• 7. Meetings at Dusk
• 8. What’s in a Name?
• 9. The Promise of Puffins
• 10. To Gawp at Birds
• 11. The Regard of Equals
• 12. Gannets
• 13. Risk Assessment
• 14. An Unkindness to Birdwatchers
• Notes and Bibliographical Details
• Acknowledgements