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020			_a9780008399535 _qhardback
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020			_z9780008399559 _qePub ebook
040			_aUKMGB _beng _erda _cUKMGB
082	0	4	_a598.1594 _223 _bL816
100	1		_aLockhart, James Macdonald, _d1975- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWild air : _bin search of birdsong / _cJames Macdonald Lockhart.
264		1	_aLondon : _b4th Estate, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023
300			_a342 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe bird that hides its shadow : Nightjar -- Mountain of the trolls : Shearwater -- The blacksmith of the stream : Dipper -- Up in the lift go we : Skylark -- Xylophone in the trees : Raven -- Rather like the howl of a dog : Black-throated diver -- Little horn in the rushes : Lapwing -- As though she lived on song : Nightingale.
520			_a"A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, 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 granny's 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 nightjar's strange churring song on a heath in the south of England, to a lapwing displaying over the machair in the Outer Hebrides, he writes about eight different birds who he has spent most time with, returned to most often and relays what he hears. The eight species are all representative of a different habitat. Nightjars on a lowland heath; shearwaters on a mountain overlooking the sea; dippers on a river; skylarks in farmland; ravens in woodland; divers on a loch; lapwings on the coast; and nightingales in dense scrub. Not all of the birds are songbirds in the traditional sense, though each possesses its own distinctive music. That music can vary from the strange, as in the weird gurgling sound a shearwater makes inside its burrow, to the joyous exuberance of the skylark's song. Sometimes, he hears a lot, and sees little (shearwaters in the pitch dark); sometimes he sees a lot, but hears little (black-throated divers on their loch). But in every case the sounds the birds make become an introduction to their lives - an audible introduction to the birds and the places they are found"--Publisher's description.
650		0	_aBirdsongs _zGreat Britain.
650		0	_aBirds _xBehavior _zGreat Britain.
650		6	_aOiseaux _xChant _zGrande-Bretagne.
650		6	_aOiseaux _xMœurs et comportement _zGrande-Bretagne.
650		7	_aBirds _xBehavior _2fast
650		7	_aBirdsongs _2fast
651		7	_aGreat Britain _2fast
655		7	_aAnecdotes. _2lcgft
655		7	_aAnecdotes. _2rvmgf
776	0	8	_iebook version : _z9780008399559
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