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Picture a jazz musician, improvising on a theme. Then imagine that he is able to play half a dozen instruments - not just one after another, but almost simultaneously, switching very easily between devices and musical styles with hardly a pause for breath. If you can countenance that, you are halfway towards appreciating the outstanding song of the nightingale.... Wherever we are, there are wild birds. And wherever there are wild birds, there is birdsong. It's always a pleasure (and a relief) to listen to sounds that prove the world's still content spinning: be it the sighing of migrating redwings on a damp October nighttime, the twitter of swallows fresh in from South Africa in April, or the decision of the cuckoo in May. Predicated on the scripts of BBC Radio 4's precious year-long series, and distilling two lifetimes' knowledge, perception, and excitement into this saving, Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss take you month by month through the entire year, and the changing lives of our favourite wild birds. From peregrines swapping sea-cliffs for skyscrapers to swifts spending almost their complete lives on the wing; from charms of goldfinches to murmurations of starlings; from ptarmigans growing in the Highland snow to the bright-green parakeets thronging London's parks; this audiobook is jam-packed full of outstanding insights and memorable facts. Tweet of the Day is a reserve for everybody who is in love with Britain's birds, which audiobook consists of over 150 birdsong recordings to bring them to life. Produced by arrangement with the BBC. Birdsong recordings copyright Geoff Test and Wildsong.This is the audio tracks version of the widened reserve of Tweet of the Day read by the authors, not the air series itself. This audio tracks book consists of 193 birdsong recordings.
