One Midsummer's Day : Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth by Mark Cocker

One Midsummer's Day : Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth by Mark CockerIt takes a whole universe to make one small black birdThe bestselling author of Crow Country and writer of The Guardian's Country Diary tells the story of all life on Earth through a single day spent in the company of swifts.'A jewel of a book' Caroline Lucas MPSwifts are among the most extraordinary of all birds. Their migrations span continents and their twelve week stopover, when they pause to breed in European rooftops, is the very definition of

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