No other bird is quite so ever-present and familiar, so embedded in our
culture, as the robin. With more than six million breeding pairs, the
robin is second only to the wren as Britain's most common bird. It seems
to live its life alongside us, in every month and season of the year.
But how much do we really know about this bird? In The Robin Stephen
Moss records a year of observing the robin both close to home and in the
field to shed light on the hidden life of this apparently familiar
bird. We follow its lifecycle from the time it enters the world as an
egg, through its time as a nestling and juvenile, to the adult bird; via
courtship, song, breeding, feeding, migration - and ultimately, death.
At the same time we trace the robin's relationship with us: how did this
particular bird - one of more than 300 species in its huge and diverse
family - find its way so deeply and permanently into our nation's heart
and its social and cultural history? It's a story that tells us as much
about ourselves as it does about the robin itself.
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The Robin : A Biography - Stephen Moss
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