Author Robert MacFarlane and illustrator Jackie Morris admire feathered friends in The Book of Birds

It’s a long haul from the waters of Alaska to New Zealand’s Manukau Harbour, and when the Bar-Tailed Godwit reaches her destination “she collapses right there on the beach, too exhausted even to fold her wings or break her fast . . .” But the church bells will be ringing to hail her arrival. We’re […]