Dominic Couzens

Dominic Couzens is a leading nature writer, tour leader and lecturer based in the UK. He is the named author on more than 50 books, writes three regular magazine columns, and to date, has had more than 700 published articles.

He contributes regularly to Bird Watching and BBC Wildlife magazines; and is also a professional field trip guide. His books The Secret Lives of Garden Birds, The Secret Lives of British Birds, and The Secret Lives of Garden Wildlife all received praise, with the former selected by The Guardian as one of the best wildlife books of 2004, an accolade also received by the Secret Lives of British Birds, and the latter picked as one of the best new nature books of Spring 2008 by The Times.

In 2021, Couzens was awarded with the Dilys Breese Medal of the British Trust for Ornithology.

He is based in Dorset.