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Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong

English

By (author): James Macdonald Lockhart

Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize

Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening Sunday Times

A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the critically acclaimed author of Raptor.

In Wild Air, James Macdonald Lockhart sets out to write about a series of birds as though he has his grannys role of listening to birds songs and calls and relaying what she heard to her aged and by then quite deaf father the famous naturalist Seton Gordon. From a nightjars strange churring song on a heath in the south of England, to a lapwing displaying over the machair in the Outer Hebrides, he writes about eight different birds who he has spent most time with, returned to most often and relays what he hears.
The eight species are all representative of a different habitat. Nightjars on a lowland heath; shearwaters on a mountain overlooking the sea; dippers on a river; skylarks in farmland; ravens in woodland; divers on a loch; lapwings on the coast; and nightingales in dense scrub. Not all of the birds are songbirds in the traditional sense, though each possesses its own distinctive music. That music can vary from the strange, as in the weird gurgling sound a shearwater makes inside its burrow, to the joyous exuberance of the skylarks song. Sometimes, he hears a lot, and sees little (shearwaters in the pitch dark); sometimes he sees a lot, but hears little (black-throated divers on their loch). But in every case the sounds the birds make become an introduction to their lives an audible introduction to the birds and the places they are found.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 300g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 09 May 2024
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008399566

About James Macdonald Lockhart

James Macdonald Lockhart is the author of two books about birds Raptor (2016) which received the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction and Wild Air (2023).

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