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Ban the post-lockdown blues, pick up some binoculars and explore your own backyard during National Bird Week. With international borders firmly shut

Macquarie University/The Lighthouse The fatal impact of heatwaves on the eggs of one of Australia’s most abundant birds species has raised the alarm for Macquarie University researchers. In a remote area of north-western NSW, scientists have been studying the local population of zebra finches – one of the most widespread and abundant birds in Australia – for more than 16 years. Danger zone: Zebra finches are abundant, and in an average year 80 per cent of chicks survive … but not during heatwave, the researchers found. In the summer of 2017, they recorded a catastrophic event. A heatw...

Judith Mackrell                                                                                             Picador £20 Rating: Until the 1930s, female journalists were expected to know their place, which was mainly on the fashion or problem pages of the newspapers that employed them. But as the international situation darkened and war became imminent, a handful of remarkable women decided that they could not continue to sit in the office writing about hem lengths while the world went up in flames.  In this hugely entertaining and informative ...