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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Gyrfalcon
An Indifference of Birds
By Richard Smyth
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
By Jennifer Ackerman
Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl
By Jonathan C Slaght
From the March 2020 Issue
In the Yew Tree’s Shade
These Silent Mansions: A Life in Graveyards
By Jean Sprackland
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From the August 2019 Issue
Meet Fido, Our New Nematode
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
By Rob Dunn
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From the July 2019 Issue
Songs from the Cow Shed
The Lark Ascending: The Music of the British Landscape
By Richard King
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From the April 2019 Issue
Confessions of a Tomb Raider
From the June 2018 Issue
Petrel Head
Far from Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds
By Michael Brooke
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From the February 2018 Issue
Some Like it Hoot
Owl Sense
By Miriam Darlington
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From the November 2017 Issue
All Atwitter
Mozart’s Starling
By Lyanda Lynn Haupt
A Sweet, Wild Note: What We Hear When the Birds Sing
By Richard Smyth
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From the July 2017 Issue
Aqua Male
RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR
By Philip Hoare
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From the June 2017 Issue
Gulls Aloud
The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers
By Adam Nicolson
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From the April 2017 Issue
Countryphile
The Village News: The Truth Behind England’s Rural Idyll
By Tom Fort
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From the December 2016 Issue
Beware the Cassowary
Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
By Tim Low
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From the November 2016 Issue
Box Clever
Television: A Biography
By David Thomson
Play All: A Bingewatcher’s Notebook
By Clive James
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From the September 2016 Issue
On the Nature of Things
The Art of Flight
By Fredrik Sjöberg, Peter Graves (trans.)
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From the August 2016 Issue
In Praise of Blogging
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From the July 2016 Issue
Books of a Feather
From the June 2016 Issue
Lolita’s Lepidopterist
Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art
By Stephen H Blackwell & Kurt Johnson (edd)
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From the May 2016 Issue
Putting Down Roots
The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood
By Richard Fortey
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From the April 2016 Issue
Making a Scene
Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places
By Anna Pavord
Rain: Four Walks in English Weather
By Melissa Harrison
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