About this episode

Lori Wilson reads A Quiet Spring by Robert Macfarlane, discussing the alarming decline of bird populations.

Billions of birds have vanished in a generation - to save them, we need to look and listen. Lori Wilson reads A Quiet Spring by Robert Macfarlane.

People in this episode

Host: Lori Wilson

Topics covered

• bird conservation
• environment
• nature
• literature
• climate change

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: A Quiet Spring

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