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The Twelve Birds of Christmas
Stephen Moss

Naturalist Stephen Moss digs beneath the surface of some of our most popular Christmas carols in an ornithological celebration of the Festive Season. Using the structure of the carol as a jumping off, he explores the palce of twelve fascinating British birds in our, history, culture and landscape. 

Some of the birds are obvious, there’s the swan and of course the partridge. Other chapters are loose interpretation of a verse: for drummers drumming he delves into the woodpecker's distinctive drumming tap. 
Woodpeckers, he explains, have special padded skulls to mitigate against using its head like hammer drills. They carefully select dead trees for the most hollow, sonorous sound, and in Florida a space mission was once delayed because woodpeckers had pecked holes in the outer surface of the space shuttle.

With brilliant anecdotes and insights, Stephen Moss weaves history, culture, bird behaviour and folklore into a compelling narrative for each species, tracing its fortunes over the past two centuries.

GENRE
Non-fiction; Nature; Wildlife

UK PUBLICATION
October 2019

Also by Stephen Moss

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Other books by Stephen Moss
  • Highlands: Scotland's Wild Heart - (Bloomsbury Natural History)
  • The Great British Year: Wildlife Through the Seasons - (Quercus)
  • Wild Hares and Hummingbirds - (Vintage)
  • Gardens Birds - (Collins)
  • This Birding Life - (Aurum Press)
  • Springwatch British Wild Life - (Collins)
  • Natural History: 25 Extraordinary Species That Have Changed Our World - (John Murray)
  • Tweet of the Day: A Year of Britain's Birds - (Saltyard Books)
  • A Bird in the Bush - (Aurum Press)
  • The Bumper Book of Nature - (Square Peg)

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