WILD MONTH

1 | NIGHTINGALE

Bursting into song

When the human world is in turmoil, we can all take comfort in the beyond-human one. Birdsong is proven to give us a natural high, and one song in particular has been written about by almost every nature writer: that of the male nightingale. Shy and dowdy he may be, but when he opens that beak, he has the power and clarity of an opera singer, and the improvisation and range of a jazz diva.

Though legendary for singing on, a book celebrating our 67 most vulnerable birds, “Will we really let this be the last song of the nightingale?”