I am a bird and birds cannot speak Print

Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra). This species breeds in Europe and western Asia, winters in central Africa. The last time I I saw one was on spring passage through southern England in 2021: it was with wheatears, I suspect they often migrate together. When I was a child, there was a period when my father did surveys of breeding birds for the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), and I remember that one year he found more whinchat nests than anyone else in the country. Well, that's what he told me. (I often accompanied him: it was a lot of fun.) These days the whinchat is much less common in the UK: like many other migratory species, it has declined, partly as a result of the intensification of agriculture here, perhaps also because of pressures in its wintering grounds. Why these words? For that, you should consult my highly acclaimed recent article "Post-Modern Irony in the Vocalizations of the Whinchat, Saxicola rubetra", Journal of Avian Communication 6:110-113. Alkyd oils on canvas, with acrylic underpainting and additional use of graphite pencil and marker pen. Canvas edges white. Signed and dated middle right. Size 50 x 50 cm (19.7 x 19.7 inches), edge depth 1.8 cm (0.7 inches). Reference photo credit: gailhampshire, under Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0

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