From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

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When cold weather approaches, we humans usually have it easy.

We can retreat to the shelter of central heating or pylon more layers of clothing.

The path to survival is a lot more

complicated for birds, of course, and a new book delts into how they have

adapted to face the challenges of cold and scarcity of food that winter

represents. The book is the courage of birds and the often surprising ways they

survive winter, and one of its co-creators David Sibley is here to talk about

some of the impressive suite of tactics

that different species have developed to live to see another spring.

More in a moment, but first, these messages.

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The book The Courage of Birds is just out written by Pete Dunn author of more than 20 books about

birds and illustrated by today's guest David Sibley, one of whose indispensable

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