Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong Ivo Stourton From ancient mythology to contemporary

From ancient mythology to contemporary pop culture

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Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong Ivo Stourton From ancient mythology to contemporaryA book about birdsong, from the critically acclaimed author of Raptor. In Wild Air, James Macdonald Lockhart sets out to write about a series of birds as though he has his grannys role of listening to birds songs and calls and relaying what she heard to her aged and by then quite deaf father the famous naturalist Seton Gordon. From a nightjars strange churring song on a heath in the south of England, to a lapwing displaying over the machair in the