Hedgehog love

Dorsum in June, nosotros had a bit of hedgehog drama in our garden: Three males were fighting over a female person, and ane of them finally mated with her, after chasing off the others and going through a kind of dance with her for some time. Now it's Oct and it'due south greyness and wet outside, and I finally found the time to edit a petty movie that documents the event. It's about seven minutes long.

  • Run across it on my YouTube channel.

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The Blue Whale – Surprising Stories and Fabulous Facts Nigh the Behemothic of the Ocean

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Von Walen und Menschen

Today I discovered a prissy review of Von Walen und Menschen, the German language-linguistic communication edition of my whale book, translated by Martin Bayer and published by Residenz Verlag. In Madam Wien magazine, Astrid Kuffner writes: "Als Geschichte eines ganzen Wirtschaftszweigs ist das Buch sehr spannend zu lesen."

  • Read the review

I feels great to have the book out in German language and available to such a large audience. Last week I had the opportunity to talk over the book at a couple of events at the Frankfurter Buchmesse and in a picayune less than two weeks, I will visit Vienna and the literary festival Buch Wien.

  • Read about the result at Buch Wien

Residenz Verlag stand at the Frankfurter Buchmesse.

Residenz Verlag stand at the Frankfurter Buchmesse.

Whale Tale selected by NORLA (Norwegian Literature Abroad)

My book Whale Tale. How we hunted the world'southward largest fauna to the brink of extinction was recently published in Norwegian. Today, NORLA (Norwegian Literature Abroad) announced that it has been selected as 1 of their "focus titles" to be promoted by at international book fairs and other events this fall.

  • NORLA'south list of selected titles

  • More virtually Whale Tale

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reviews Das verborgene Leben der Meisen

A blueish tit in my garden concluding calendar week

Kai Spanke reviewed my bird volume for the major German newspaper FAZ. I had some help in interpreting the review and I was quite pleased with it. So I would encourage anyone who reads German to take a expect...

Adjacent stop: Hamburg!

Das verborgene Leben der Meisen: First responses to the German Edition

German book bloggers have posted their first reviews of my bird book this calendar week.

And they practice like it!

"Dieses Sachbuch bietet einen unterhaltsamen und interessanten Einblick in das Leben der Meisen. Hobbyornithologen werden hiermit ihre Freude haben."
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 "Von Herzen vergebe ich diesem Buch fünf von fünf möglichen Sternen und empfehle es natürlich weiter."
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 "Fazit: Ein schön zu lesendes und informatives Buch über faszinierende Tiere vor der eigenen Haustür. Sehr empfehlenswert für jeden Vogelfreund und durch die schöne Aufmachung auch ein tolles Geschenk."
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"Normalerweise habe ich diese Kategorie nicht in meinen Rezis, aber hier erschien sie mir nötig. Denn "Das verborgene Leben der Meisen" ist ein echtes Schmuckstück! Format, Cover und die vielen Bilder machen es zu einem Augenschmaus - nicht nur beim Lesen, sondern auch im Purple."
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Five out of 5 stars from each of these. Thank you!



"Mit dem Auto erreicht man die Halbinsel Nesodden am Oslofjord aus südöstlicher Richtung, da sie dort mit dem Festland verbunden ist. Nimmt homo die Landstraße 156, die Hauptverkehrsader, die an der Ostseite der Landzunge entlangführt, weichen die Fichten bald Weizenfeldern, Reiterhöfen und, je nach Jahreszeit, Erdbeer- oder Brennholzverkaufsständen. "

It's a thrill to read my ain piece of work translated into German language, including descriptions of skillful old Nesodden!

A few pages from Das verborgene Leben der Meisen, translated by Paul Berf, was recently posted online by the publisher, Insel Verlag. The book should be out in a couple of weeks.

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German edition of my bird book

The German edition of my bird volume will be published in Oct. The title: Das verborgene Leben der Meisen.

Two newspaper reviews of the Finnish edition!

My volume about the secret life of the great tit and the blue tit is reviewed in the major Helsinki paper Iltalehti and too in some other paper called Kouvolan Sanomat. As far as I empathize the reviews of "Tiaisten salainen elämä" (Meisenes hemmelige liv) are quite favorable!

  • Review in Iltalehti
  • Review in Kouvolan Sanomat

Here are the results from the Finnish jury

Recently my songbird book - about the great tit and the blueish tit, which are among the most common garden birds across Europe - was was translated from Norwegian and published in Finnish. Information technology is strange to see your own piece of work in a language you hardly empathize a single discussion of!

A few Finnish book bloggers have read and reviewed Tiaisten salainen elämä / Meisenes hemmelige liv . And unless Google translate is playing tricks on me, they all do similar it.

Thanks for reviewing, in whatever example. It ways a lot that someone takes the effort to spread the word about new books.

Hither are the reviews:

  • Margit Räsänen
  • Lukupino (Simo Sahlman)
  • Ullan Luetut kirjat

Book in Finnish

I don't understand a word of it, simply I similar the cover!

Book about common garden birds

My book near two of the well-nigh common garden birds in Scandinavia - the bully tit and the blue tit - was published in Norwegian in August 2015.

Norla, a torso promoting Norwegian literature abroad, selected it as one of a handfull of titles to promote at international volume fairs.

Read Norla'south presentation of the book.


Children's aquarium book published

The Aquarium Book for Kids is now available in Norwegian.This is a not an ebook but a regular volume printed on high quality paper with a hard cover. It is illustrated with photographs, mostly my own, and the pages are made by a professional book designer. I am actually proud of the result!

The volume can exist ordered online correct now from my own site akvariebok.no. It volition also be distributed through booksellers and pet shops across Norway.

Zebrafish Ebook Bachelor through Smashwords

I've published the Meet the Zebrafish ebook at Smashwords.com. Y'all can buy at that place right away. In a few days, it should also become available at Apple iBooks and barnesandnoble.com. The book has been available from Amazon.com since November.

Glowlight tetras spawning

I only recorded this video of my glowlight tetras (Hemigrammus erythrozonus) spawning. You can clearly see how the female rotates and is turned upside down every bit the eggs are released. You can also see that the parents eat a lot of the eggs. The corys they share the tank with eat eggs too, so in that location will be no fry hatching in this tank. I accept lots of glowlight tetra fry in a split breeding tank, though.

For ii days merely: Get the zebrafish ebook for free

Sunday November eighteen and Monday November 19, I'm giving away my new ebook for free on Amazon, or Amazon's UK site. Information technology'south called Meet the Zebrafish. A Short Guide to Keeping, Breeding and Understanding the Zebrafish (Danio rerio) in Your Abode Aquarium. It should exist of interest to domicile aquarium keepers in item.

The purpose of the free promotion is to get people to recommend the volume to friends, or to go out a review on Amazon or elsewhere. Simply there'south no obligation, of course. Just download and enjoy.

And in case you didn't know: You don't need a Kindle reader to read Amazon's Kindle ebooks. Only download one of their complimentary reader apps for smartphones, tablets or regular computers. I buy quite a few ebooks from Amazon myself, and I read them on my iPad.

My zebrafish volume is published on Amazon

This little ebook is written for anyone who keeps zebrafish at abode, or who considers buying zebrafish. It combines my own feel with keeping and breeding zebrafish at dwelling house, with information drawn from scientific studies of zebrafish biological science. The volume is written in a simple, accessible style. You volition find practical communication hither also every bit interesting data that helps you appreciate how circuitous and interesting beings zebrafishes are. You tin can read the ebook on your iPhone, iPad, Android device, PC or Mac using Amazon's free reading app.

Zebrafish (which are also known as zebra danios) are beautiful, lively footling aquarium fish that are like shooting fish in a barrel to go along. Zebrafish are a great choice for your showtime aquarium, and the perfect starter fish for anyone who wants to try fish breeding. Zebrafish are easy to detect and cheap to purchase, just you could report them for a lifetime. As a thing of fact, some people exercise: zebrafish are commonly held and studied in biological labs. There is even a serious, scientific journal called Zebrafish.

The text answers questions such equally: How can I breed zebrafish if I only have a single aquarium? Why do zebrafish sometimes fight? How practise immature zebrafish recognize their siblings amidst other zebrafish of the aforementioned age? Why exercise some zebrafish have spots instead of stripes? The book also contains my ain photographs showing zebrafish beliefs and their life bicycle. The images are in color, but they as well piece of work well on a black-and-white kindle screen.
Contents include:
• Zebrafish in the wild
• Zebrafish behavior
• Creating a adept zebrafish habitat in your aquarium
• Feeding your zebrafish
• Convenance zebrafish
• Zebrafish and science

The book is for sale on Amazon. The full title is: Come across the Zebrafish. A Short Guide to Keeping, Breeding and Understanding the Zebrafish (Danio rerio) in Your Home Aquarium.