What animals tell you: alarms, routines, water, weather and people
45 min
You are sitting with your back to an oak at the edge of a wood, half dozing in the sun. The wood is full of sound: a robin singing, chaffinches, a wren somewhere low down, the soft contact calls of a family of tits moving through the canopy. Then, along the hedge to your left, a blackbird bursts out with a loud, repeated "chink, chink, chink". A wren starts a…
In this lesson
The baseline: what a calm place sounds like
Bird alarm calls
Reading ripples of disturbance
Mammal alarm signals
Animal routines
Animals as indicators of water
Animals and insects as indicators of weather
Animals as indicators of people and danger
Common mistakes
Check yourself
Key points
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