The Audible Sign That Our Habitat Is Healthy ; There Is Both Good and Bad News in the Ornithological World. Martin Hesp, Who has Been Studying the Latest Report On the Nation's Bird- Life, Believes We Must Do Everything We Can to Help Our Feathered Friends Survive Climate Change

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If they weren't here, you probably wouldn't invent them. Stand back for a second and think in an abstract way about the general subject of birds, and they begin to take on elements of a science fiction story.

You can imagine the ridicule which might greet the writer of futuristic stories who declared: "I'm devising a new planet with very different life-forms - there will be some beings that fly about, paying no heed to gravity, singing as they go."

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The Audible Sign That Our Habitat Is Healthy ; There Is Both Good and Bad News in the Ornithological World. Martin Hesp, Who has Been Studying the Latest Report On the Nation's Bird- Life, Believes We Must Do Everything We Can to Help Our Feathered Friends Survive Climate Change

Birds don't seem very realistic put like that. And yet they are such a permanent and common feature of the world we live in that we tend to take them for granted. Indeed, it's only because I am writing about them that I realise their almos...

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