Bird school a beginner in the wood
"An intimate exploration by a master naturalist of the lives of birds and their interactions with man. Poets and scientists, saints and naturalists, stalk through these pages. Neighboring cock robins duel almost to the death. Tawny owl widows are seen looking for tawny owl widowers to set up shop wi...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2025.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Nicolson, Adam, |d 1957- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Bird school : |b a beginner in the wood / |c Adam Nicolson. |
| 250 | |a First American edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |c 2025. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2025 | |
| 300 | |a 440 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (some color), maps ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-428) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Bird school : learning -- Birdhouse : absorbing -- Wrens : surviving -- Songbirds : proclaiming -- Robins : occupying -- Tawny owls : haunting -- Ravens : thinking -- Buzzards : flying -- Tits : breeding -- Blackbirds : singing -- Migrants : arriving -- Man : reckoning -- Perch Hill : reculturing. | |
| 520 | |a "An intimate exploration by a master naturalist of the lives of birds and their interactions with man. Poets and scientists, saints and naturalists, stalk through these pages. Neighboring cock robins duel almost to the death. Tawny owl widows are seen looking for tawny owl widowers to set up shop with. Blackbirds are found singing phrases from late Beethoven quartets, both in a garden in southern England (where they have been listening to records played through the open window of a drawing room) and in Bonn, where Beethoven himself first heard them and where they are still singing to the same rhythms two hundred fifty years later. Bird School describes and follows Adam Nicolson's progress over two or three years in trying to learn about, and eventually to create an environment friendly to, the birds of the farm where he lives in Sussex. In simple language that evinces his careful observational prowess, Nicolson aims to cross the boundary between the scientific and the prescientific understanding of birds, looking into why and how they sing, how they fly and breed, how they survive and migrate, how they have suffered at our hands, how we have loved them and damaged them, and how we might create, or re-create, a refuge for them. Here is a set of lessons for someone who knows little but cares a lot about the living world that is in such dire crisis. Here is life in the "rough grounds," on the edge of culture and nature."-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Bird watching |v Popular works. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Birds |v Identification. | |
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| 949 | |a schlow |b SANONNE |c 598.0723 NIC |d o |e 39635104792821 |f 803332 |g ddc |j 08/26/2025 | ||
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