Birds of Ceredigion represents the culmination of a lifetime's knowledge, research and commitment to the birds and other wildlife of the county. The untimely death of Hywel Roderick meant he never saw the results of his scholarship in print and it fell to the only other person in the county with sufficient knowledge, Peter Davis, to complete it. There is little one needs to say about this volume: it is, and will remain, the reference work on the subject for the indefinite future. Hywel Roderick's passing is a great loss to everyone concerned with natural history in Ceredigion. But how many of us will leave a legacy such as this to posterity? ( )