The Screaming Sky: The strange allure of swifts

Professor Charles Foster. University of Oxford

Abstract
Swifts inhabit the air as few other organisms do. This talk is an account of an attempt by an earthbound man to follow them there: on their migration routes to and from Africa, their winter travels, dodging African storms and hunting insects that spring up with the rains, and in their brief summer stay in the skies and eaves of Oxford

Biography
Charles Foster is a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. His books include Being a Beast (2016), a New York Times Bestseller, for which he won the IgNobel Prize for Biology, Being a Human (2019), The Screaming Sky (2022) and Cry of the Wild (2024).

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