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One Midsummer's Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth by Mark Cocker Groundswell Speaker 2024 'One of the very bestIt takes a whole universe to make one small black bird. The bestselling author of Crow Country and writer of The Guardian's Country Diary tells the story of all life on Earth through a single day spent in the company of swifts. 'A jewel of a book' Caroline Lucas MP Swifts are among the most extraordinary of all birds. Their migrations span continents and their twelve week stopover, when they pause to breed in European rooftops, is the very definition