The starling : a biography
Moss, Stephen, 1960-2024
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Though it is easy to overlook a solitary starling, even with its beautiful iridescent plumage, when they come together in the thousands they take to the skies in awe-inspiring swooping flocks called murmurations. Starlings live almost all over the world - they're a common bird throughout Europe and the Palearctic to western Mongolia, and are recent residents of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Argentina, South Africa and Fiji, migrating seasonally as far North as Scandinavia. Discover how their love of fruit gets them into trouble, how they can help farmers by eating insects, how their skill for mimicry has inspired centuries of folklore and how they were brought to new continents by one man's passion for Shakespeare.
Main title:
The starling : a biography / Stephen Moss.
Author:
Moss, Stephen, 1960-, author
Imprint:
UK : Square Peg, 2024.
Collation:
196 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 21 cm
Notes:
Illustrations on lining papers.
ISBN:
9781529908282 (hbk)
Dewey class:
598.863
LC class:
QL696.P278
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4004146
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