Lucy Cooke on the creative conjugal affairs of a hedgerow songbird
Sep 22, 2022
2 minutes
THE REVEREND FREDERICK MORRIS, A keen Victorian ornithologist and author proclaimed, in his popular bird book, “Be thou like the dunnock – the male and female are impeccably faithful to each other”.
The dedicated nesting behaviour of the “humble and homely” hedge sparrow () may appear
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