Does your pick for Bird of the Year feature in a book? Probably! Today Anushka Perinpanayagam surveys dozens of books featuring Aotearoa's birds, and finds we are writing about our birds in a huge variety of ways. As part of a household of amateur bird watchers, our toddler has become an avid reader of all bird-related books. She will pore over our well-worn bird watching guides asking: ‘what does the kererū eat?’ and ‘where does the tīeke make its nest?' And our regular haul