Calluna Books - specialists in out of print natural history books

Our logo is the Dartford Warbler drawn and engraved by G.E Lodge and printed in the Rev. J C Mansel-Pleydell's: "The Birds of Dorsetshire: a contribution to the natural history of the county", published in 1887, where Mansel-Pleydell ends with the words

".....and it is doubtful whether we shall any longer see our heaths enlivened by this active little bird" (after the severe winter of 1886-87). 

They survived, but were almost wiped out again as recently as the early 1960s after another bad winter....only 11 known pairs remained in the UK by 1964. 

Happily their numbers has risen substantially and they have moved out of their core breeding range of Purbeck and the New Forest.