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The Robin: A Biography

Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in The Times'There is no doubt that Moss's book with its charming cover and quaint illustrations will make it into many a stocking this year' The TimesNo other bird is quite so ever-present and familiar so embedded in our culture as the robin With more than six million breeding pairs the robin is second only to the wren as Britain's most common bird It seems to live its life alongside us in every month and season of the year But how much do we really know about this bird? In The Robin Stephen Moss records a year of observing the robin both close to home and in the field to shed light on the hidden life of this apparently familiar bird We follow its lifecycle from the time it enters the world as an egg through its time as a nestling and juvenile to the
adult bird; via courtship song breeding feeding migration - and ultimately death At the same time we trace the robin's relationship with us how did this particular bird - one of more than 300 species in its huge and diverse family - find its way so deeply and permanently into our nation's heart and its social and cultural history? It's a story that tells us as much about ourselves as it does about the robin itself
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Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in The Times' There is no doubt that Moss's book with its charming cover & quaint illustrations will make it into many a stocking this year' The Times No other bird is quite so ever-present & familiar so embedded in our culture as the robin With more than six million breeding pairs the robin is second only to the wren as Britain's most common bird It seems to live its life alongside us in every month & season of the year But how much do we really know about this bird? In The Robin Stephen Moss records a year of observing the robin both close to home & in the field to shed light on the hidden life of this apparently familiar bird We follow its lifecycle from the time it enters the world as an egg through its time as a nestling & juvenile to the adult bird; via courtship song breeding feeding migration
- & ultimately death At the same time we trace the robin's relationship with us how did this particular bird
- one of more than 300 species in its huge & diverse family
- find its way so deeply & permanently into our nation's heart & its social & cultural history? It's a story that tells us as much about ourselves as it does about the robin itself

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