Gillian burke

Birds can transport us to another time and place entirely,

Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot, writes Octavia Pollock

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

The article on how animals use sound in the September issue included comment on dialect or accent in birdsong. This reminded me of a passage in the book Incredible Journeys by David Barrie. He relates

Nature needs time to adapt to changing conditions,

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