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Index
Cover
Landing Page
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Prologue
1: Sound and Echoes
1: The Cuckoo’s Calling
2: Trade Routes and Translations
3: Invasions and Conquests
4: The Nature of Birdsong
5: The Sound Approach
2: Invasion and Change
1: The Ravens’ Lament
2: Red Tails and White Arses
3: Sex, Chaucer and Blackbirds
4: Fifty Shades of Green?
3: History and Science
1: Dirty Underwear
2: Folk and Fowls
3: Pioneers and Puffins
4: A Little Latin
5: A Correspondence Course
4: Taming Nature
1: A Man of Kent
2: Flaming Galahs and Fairy-Wrens
3: The Nature Poet
4: The Military Man
5: Eponyms and Exploration
1: The Museum Man
2: Eponymous Birds
3: Into the North
4: Scotland’s Forgotten Genius
5: Exploration and Empire
6: Twentieth-Century Flocks
1: Redbreasts and Hedge Sparrows
2: Tit-Willow and Willow Tit
3: Reed Warblers and Roasted Larks
4: Canada Geese and Crossbills
5: Eiderdowns, Cranes and Kites
6: Hobbies and Spies
7: Tomorrow Never Knows
1: Bird Names at a Crossroads
2: Titmice and Ring-Doves
3: Politics and Political Correctness
4: Splitting Species
5: New Birds, New Names
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Appendix
Index
About the Author
Also by the Author
Copyright
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