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Bird species have been allocated symbolic meanings through folklore, rhymes and fairytales: the Cuckoo as a metaphor for a con artist, Magpies linked to sorrow, joy,. ....
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Birdsong in a Time of Silence by Steven Lovatt review â lockdown s high notes An illustrated record begun in the âstrangest springâ of 2020 celebrates the enduring beauty and culture of birdlife A wren adds to the chorus. Photograph: Toby Houlton/Alamy A wren adds to the chorus. Photograph: Toby Houlton/Alamy Sat 6 Mar 2021 02.30 EST In spring 2020, as Covid-19 spread fear and infection around the globe, seismologists were able to track âa wave of silence passing over the earth, its course exactly following that of the virusâ. According to Steven Lovatt, silence descended on Britain, perhaps for the first time since the Industrial Revolution: âFinally, the earth could hear itself think, and the voice of its thought was song.â ....
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It s six in the morning and still dark. I’m awake early and, knowing the children will soon be up, make the decision to steal half an hour’s solitude in the park. From the dense latticework of trees and shrubs that clothe the wooded slope comes a constant scuttling through dead leaves. The darkness is awake and vigilant; there’s the warning tik-tik of an invisible robin from the bushes, and then the next second it appears on the path. Each individual movement of the bird, each wing-flick and pivot, is brisk and definite. It leaps round once more on the spot, then flits back into the darkness. ....