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Cetti's warbler
The Observer
|June 08, 2025
My week
I'm a Cetti's warbler. But I can't help but come across those humans in the course of the daily round of song and love. Do I think they're stupid? Certainly not. I know they’re stupid. I shout an inconvenient truth at the top of my voice, and it carries a fair old distance. And you know what? They don’t listen. I doubt if they even hear.
Monday
Say chetty. We're named after Padre Francesco Cetti, an Italian parson-naturalist. We used to be mad exoticisms in Britain: now you can find us almost anywhere damp. I'm currently singing in a patch of reeds in Norfolk, safeguarding the place for not one but two hens. It feels like a good year already.
Tuesday
This story is from the June 08, 2025 edition of The Observer.
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