Stephen Moss
Features Writer at The Guardian
'When one has no particular aptitude for anything, one takes to the pen and poses as a talented person' – Balzac
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2 weeks ago |
msn.com | Stephen Moss
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Stephen Moss
A high-pitched screech penetrates the distant hum of traffic, as two impossibly green birds tear across the Hyde Park skyline. Although Londoners have got used to their presence, visitors to the capital are still surprised to see wild parakeets, even though they’ve been here for more than 50 years. I saw my first ring-necked (aka rose-ringed) parakeets in suburban Shepperton, sometime in the late 1970s.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Stephen Moss
How do you help a migratory bird adapt to the climate crisis? One radical solution, as a team of Dutch ecologists discovered, is to move them further north. Pied flycatchers are handsome black-and-white songbirds, which breed in deciduous woodlands across much of temperate Europe. Each autumn, they head south across the Sahara desert to overwinter in west Africa.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Stephen Moss
I was about seven years old when, in the pages of the European field guide illustrated by the legendary bird artist Roger Tory Peterson, I first came across the Alpine accentor. Something about this bulky cousin of our familiar dunnock must have clicked, because soon afterwards I was convinced I had seen one in our suburban front garden. Not just unlikely but, as I later discovered, impossible.
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Stephen Moss
Despite TS Eliot’s famous reworking of the opening lines to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, April is not usually the cruellest month, weather-wise. For birders, it sees the welcome return of the majority of long-distance migrants from their winter quarters in sub-Saharan Africa – including warblers, flycatchers and chats, along with those masters of the air: swallows, martins and swifts.
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