num_pages: 208
description: No other bird is quite so ever-present and familiar so embedded in our culture as the robin. With more than six million breeding pairs the robin is second only to the wren as Britains most common bird. It seems to live its life alongside us in every month and season of the year. But how much do we really know about this bird?In The Robin Stephen Moss records a year of observing the robin both close to home and in the field to shed light on the hidden life of this apparently familiar bird. We follow its lifecycle from the time it enters the world as an egg through its time as a nestling and juvenile to the adult bird; via courtship song breeding feeding migration  and ultimately death. At the same time we trace the robin's relationship with us: how did this particular bird  one of more than 300 species in its huge and diverse family - find its way so deeply and permanently into our nations heart and its social and cultural history?Its a story that tells us as much about ourselves as it does about the robin itself.
language: English
title: The Robin: A Biography
publisher: Square Peg