Corvus (33 page)

• tanagers,
  1
  
  • thick-knee Australian tanagers,
    1
    
• terns,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  
  • Arctic terns,
    1
    ,
    2
    
• theory of mind,
  1
  
• thrushes,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  
• tits,
  1
  
  • blue-tits,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    
  • coal-tits,
    1
    
• Tlingit,
  1
  
• Torah,
  1
  
• Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de,
  1
  
• Tower of London,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• ‘Twa Corbies, The’,
  1
  

• Under the Sea Wind
  (Carson),
  1
  
• United States of America,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  
  • persecution of corvids,
    1
    
  • starling population,
    1
    
• University of Texas,
  1
  
• University of Utah,
  1
  
• University of Washington,
  1
  
• Updike, John,
  1
  

• Valentine’s Day,
  1
  
• van Eyck, Jan,
  1
  
• Vaughan, Henry,
  1
  
• Vilnius,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• vocal learning,
  1
  
• von Frisch, Karl,
  1
  
• vultures,
  1
  ,
  2
  

• White, Gilbert,
  1
  
• White, T. H.,
  1
  
• Wickramsinghe, Chandra,
  1
  
• Wildwood
  (Deakin),
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Wilson, Theodore Percival Cameron,
  1
  
• wolves,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• woodpeckers,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  
• wrens,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  
  • white-winged fairy wrens,
    1
    

• Zambia,
  1
  
• Ziki (crow),
  1
  
• Zugunruhe
  ,
  1
  ,
  2
  

Granta Publications, 12 Addison Avenue, London W11 4QR

First published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2008
Paperback edition published by Granta Books, 2009
This ebook edition published by Granta Books, 2010

Copyright © Esther Woolfson, 2008

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Illustrations copyright © Helen Macdonald, 2008

Quote from
Under the Sea Wind
by Rachel Carson (Copyright © Rachel L. Carson 1941) used by permission of the Estate of Rachel Carson and Pollinger Ltd.

Extract from Edwin Morgan’s ‘The Archaeopteryx’s Song’ (Edwin Morgan,
Collected Poems
Carcanet Press Limited, 1996) quoted by permission of Carcanet Press Limited.

Quotes from
The Appreciation of Birds
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989) and
Spring in Washington
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988) by Louis J. Halle used by permission of the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Lines from
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
reprinted by the permission of Russell and Volkening as agents for the author. Copyright © 1974 by Annie Dillard, renewed in 2002 by Annie Dillard.

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A Capote Reader
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