AMANDA TUKE is a London-based urban naturalist and nature writer, and an associate lecturer for the MA in Nature & Travel Writing at Bath Spa University. She works as a consultant botanist, leads urban plant and bird walks and teaches botany. Amanda writes a monthly column for Bird Watching Magazine which often features urban birds, and she has also written for RSPB Magazine, BBC Countryfile Magazine, Resurgence Magazine and for the London Wildlife Trust Blog. Between April 2021 and March 2022, she was nature-writer-in-residence for the London Wildlife Trust's Great North Wood project. Her feature writing can be seen on her blog The Urban Naturalist, and you can find her on Instagram at @suburbanwilduk and on Bluesky at @amandatuke.bsky.social.