The Cuckoo's Lea (Michael J. Warren)

Bloomsbury presents The Cuckoo's Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds and Place by Michael J. Warren, read by John Sackville Birds have long inspired our emotional and imaginative connections to physical environments, but where did it all begin? Hidden in the names of English towns and villages, in copses, fields, lanes and hills, are the ghostly traces of birds conjuring powerful identities for people in ancient landscapes.

Author:: Michael J. Warren
Narrator:: John Sackville
Content:: Unabridged (chapter list)
Length:: 7:59 h
Format:: MP3 download (287 MB)
Language:: English
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Wildlife (2025)
Genres:: Nature, Travel
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01 - 001 Opening Credits	0:13	1 MB
02 - 002 Dedication	0:22	1 MB
03 - 003 Prologue	18:26	10 MB
04 - 004 Chapter 1	39:25	23 MB
05 - 005 Chapter 2	42:30	25 MB
06 - 006 Chapter 3	42:58	26 MB
07 - 007 Chapter 4	42:30	25 MB
08 - 008 Chapter 5	39:08	23 MB
09 - 009 Chapter 6	44:20	26 MB
10 - 010 Chapter 7	48:49	29 MB
11 - 011 Chapter 8	44:49	26 MB
12 - 012 Chapter 9	48:11	28 MB
13 - 013 Chapter 10	44:58	27 MB
14 - 014 Epilogue	21:29	13 MB
15 - 015 End Credits	0:56	1 MB

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Summary

Bloomsbury presents The Cuckoo's Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds and Place by Michael J. Warren, read by John Sackville

Birds have long inspired our emotional and imaginative connections to physical environments, but where did it all begin?
Hidden in the names of English towns and villages, in copses, fields, lanes and hills, are the ghostly traces of birds conjuring powerful identities for people in ancient landscapes. What are their stories and secrets? How did people encounter birds over a thousand years ago?
In The Cuckoo's Lea, Michael J. Warren sets out on the trail of these ghosts. Captivated and guided by the secrets of place names, he finds their stories entangled with his own explorations of places through birds all across England. The past is hauntingly and movingly present on timeless marshes where curlews cry, where goshawks are breeding again for the first time in centuries, through silent cuckoo-woods lost under concrete sprawl, in the winter roosts of corvids and an owl village that vanished centuries ago.
Weaving together early literature, history and ornithology, this book takes readers on a journey far into the past to contemplate the nature of place and to discover a fascinating heritage that matters deeply to us now when so many places and their birds are threatened or already gone.
© 2025 Michael J. Warren

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