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“We often read to the birds to calm them down and get them used to hearing the human voice,” Douglas explained. She refers to birds that perform as “the faculty,” as it is they, not she, who are ...

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During the 2020 lockdown, a Harris Hawk known as Bird arrived in the life of the author and her young family on Anglesey. Over the following months, Meyrick – who has also published fiction as Candida ...