The Robin

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<p><b>Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in<i>The Times</i></b> <b>'There is no doubt that Mosss book, with its charming cover and quaint illustrations, will make it into many a stocking this year'</b><i>The Times</i><b></b> <b></b> <b>No other bird is quite so ever-present and familiar, so embedded in our culture, as the robin.</b>With more than six million breeding pairs, the robin is second only to the wren as Britains most common bird. It seems to live its life alongside us, in every month and season of the year.<b>But how much do we<i>really</i>know about this bird?</b></p><p>In<i>The Robin</i>Stephen Moss records a year of observing the robin both close to home and in the field to shed light on the hidden life of this apparently familiar bird.<b>We follow its lifecycle</b>from the time it enters the world as an egg, through its time as a nestling and juvenile, to the adult bird; via courtship, song, breeding, feeding, migration and ultimately, death. At the same time we trace the robin's relationship with us:<b>how did this particular bird</b> one of more than 300 species in its huge and diverse family <b>find its way so deeply and permanently into our nations heart and its social and cultural history?</b>Its a story that tells us as much about ourselves as it does about the robin itself.</p>

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<b>Stephen Moss</b>is a naturalist, broadcaster, television producer and author. In a distinguished career at the BBC Natural History Unit his credits included<i>Springwatch</i>,<i>Birds Britannia</i>and<i>The Nature of Britain</i>. His books include<i>A Bird in the Bush</i>,<i>A Sky Full of Starlings</i>,<i>The Bumper Book of Nature</i>and<i>Wild Hares and Hummingbirds</i>. Originally from London, he now lives with his wife and children on the Somerset Levels.

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