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Award-winning nature writer Adam Nicolson joins bestselling author and Guardian columnist Stephen Moss, to discuss ‘bird school’ and what the lives of ordinary birds can tell us about our relationship with the natural world. In Bird School, Adam describes his close observation over time of nightingales, cuckoos, ravens, robins, owls and warblers from his special hide-out amongst the nesting boxes and bird feeders. He watches where they nest, how they sing, mate and fight and what preys on them – always aware that this is a time in which the natural world is under siege