
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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3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month ago |
msn.com | Stephen Moss
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1 month ago |
msn.com | Stephen Moss
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