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The Wren: A Biography

Stephen Moss
4.20/5 (183 ratings)
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The wren is a paradox of a bird. On the one hand wrens are ubiquitous. They are Britain’s most common bird, with 8.5 million breeding pairs and, have by far the loudest song in proportion to their size. They also thrive up and down Britain and Ireland: from the smallest city garden to remote offshore islands, blustery moors to chilly mountains.

Yet many people, particularly a younger generation, are not sure if they have ever seen a wren. Perhaps because the wren is so tiny, weighing just as much as two A4 sheets of paper, and so busy, always on the move, more mouse than bird.

However if we cast our eyes back to recent history wrens were a mainstay of literary, cultural, and popular history. The wren was on postage stamps and the farthing, it featured in nursery rhymes and greetings cards, poems, and rural "wren hunts,"still a recent memory in Ireland particularly.

With beautiful illustrations throughout, this captivating year-in-the-life biography reveals the hidden secrets of this fascinating bird that lives right on our doorstep.
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eng
ISBN10:
1910931934
ISBN13:
9781910931936
kindle Asin:
B07BGVX3S8

The Wren: A Biography

Stephen Moss
4.20/5 (183 ratings)
Read Download
The wren is a paradox of a bird. On the one hand wrens are ubiquitous. They are Britain’s most common bird, with 8.5 million breeding pairs and, have by far the loudest song in proportion to their size. They also thrive up and down Britain and Ireland: from the smallest city garden to remote offshore islands, blustery moors to chilly mountains.

Yet many people, particularly a younger generation, are not sure if they have ever seen a wren. Perhaps because the wren is so tiny, weighing just as much as two A4 sheets of paper, and so busy, always on the move, more mouse than bird.

However if we cast our eyes back to recent history wrens were a mainstay of literary, cultural, and popular history. The wren was on postage stamps and the farthing, it featured in nursery rhymes and greetings cards, poems, and rural "wren hunts,"still a recent memory in Ireland particularly.

With beautiful illustrations throughout, this captivating year-in-the-life biography reveals the hidden secrets of this fascinating bird that lives right on our doorstep.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Illustrated
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1910931934
ISBN13:
9781910931936
kindle Asin:
B07BGVX3S8

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