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WH Hudson: Birds in Town and Village (unabridged)

read by Neville Jason

  • Release Date: 4th Dec 2012
  • Catalogue No: NA0091
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Non-Fiction
  • Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

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William Henry Hudson: Birds in Town and Village (Unabridged)

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Introduction

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Chapter 1: Birds in Town and Village

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Chapter 2

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On my second day at the village it happened to be raining…

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Chapter 3

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All these corvine birds, which the gamekeeper pursues…

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One of the first birds I went out to seek…

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Chapter 4

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The unsullied beauty and solitariness of this spot…

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The tree-pipit has a comparatively short song…

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Chapter 5

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But where, during the days when the vociferous cuckoo…

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At length during this period there occurred an event…

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Later on I saw it again on half-a-dozen occasions…

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Chapter 6

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All those birds that had finished rearing their young…

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Chapter 7

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To return to my experience on the common.

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As all or most singing birds learn their songs…

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The most curious example of mimicry I have yet met with…

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Chapter 8

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What I have just said, that the peculiar instinct…

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I will conclude this digression and dissertation…

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Chapter 9

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My colloquy with my enemy on the common…

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It is true that the local authorities in some country towns…

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How falsely does that man see Nature…

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It is the same in death from cold.

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Chapter 10

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Chapter 11

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One morning in July I was in my sitting-room…

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Exotic Birds for Britain

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That these large kinds thrive so well with us…

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There is another point which should not be overlooked.

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When considering the character of our bird population…

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There is one objection some may make to the scheme…

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Moorhens in Hyde Park

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Such a fact as this – and numberless facts just as significant…

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Kew is exceptionally favoured for the reason mentioned…

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The Eagle and the Canary

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As I sit writing these thoughts…

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After all, then, what a little I have been able to do!

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Chanticleer

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It was very dark and quiet when I woke…

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By and by I found myself paying special attention…

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To return to the ten cockerels…

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In An Old Garden

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That sad day of very small things for the sportsman…

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Greater than all these inhabitants of the garden…

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To return to the birds.

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That small song has served to remind me…

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Birds in a Cornish Village I. Taking Stock of the Birds

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At the beginning of December…

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II: Do Starlings Pair for Life?

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Until one observes starlings in this close way…

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III: Village Birds in Winter

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But for the poor starling there is little joy…

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IV: Increasing Birds in Britain

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The wood-pigeon is another species…

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V: The Daw Sentiment

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It has thus come about that of all the Corvidae…

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VI: The Story of a Jackdaw

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