Customer Reviews
Excellent Book - By: rommels cat, 07 Dec 2008 
Excellent book with good pictures & ample space devoted to each animal. Particularly like the setions on tracks & other sign. We finally identified the Poo our chocolate Labrador keeps rolling in. It was Hedgehog!
A very good balance - By: NARV, 01 Feb 2008 This is an excellent little reference book, thorough yet portable. Unlike the Collins Complete British Wildlife guide which provides only half a dozen lines & one image for each entry, the Collins Complete British Animals dedicates a couple of pages to each species - one containing identification details, habitats, habits, obervation details, & distribution maps, & the other containing multiple photographs. It might not have as much breadth as the Wildlife guide, but it has far, far more substance.
At the back of the book there are also sections to help with identifying skulls, antlers, droppings, rodent nests, & tracks, & also plans for making bat & dormouse boxes.
It probably goes without saying that it is an animal guide - if you want birds & fish, look elsewhere. That said, reptiles & even whales & dolphins are correctly included.
But I think I should point out, having read another review here, it does not have all the domesticated species. It does have a nod towards the goat, Soay Sheep & Chillingham Cattle, but thats it. But that's not a criticism, it's a wildlife book after all, & a useful one.
The Photographs Make the Book - By: J. Chippindale, 13 Aug 2007 The author has written many of the Collins Wildlife books including the Complete British Birds & this continues the high standard of the others. The book contains excellent photographs & ample room is given to each animal.
The book is a guide to all mammals, amphibians & reptiles that livein the British Isles. There is all the information you are ever likely to need including the tracks that they leave on the ground, their habitat, feeding habits etc. The book also includes all the species of domesticated animal as well.
