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Bird Sense: What It´s Like to Be a Bird
Tim Birkhead
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Description for Bird Sense: What It´s Like to Be a Bird
Paperback. A hugely engaging book about birds, their senses and behaviour that is informed by an attractive blend of personal experience, entertaining stories and cutting-edge science. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: WNCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 204. What It's Like to Be a Bird. 288 pages, Illustrations. A hugely engaging book about birds, their senses and behaviour that is informed by an attractive blend of personal experience, entertaining stories and cutting-edge science. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: WNCB. Dimension: 200 x 132 x 18. Weight: 206.
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment and to interact with each other. Our affinity for birds is often said to be the result of shared senses - vision ... Read more
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment and to interact with each other. Our affinity for birds is often said to be the result of shared senses - vision ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408830543
SKU
V9781408830543
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Tim Birkhead
Tim Birkhead is a professor at the University of Sheffield where he teaches animal behaviour and the history of science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and his research has taken him all over the world in the quest to understand the lives of birds. He has written for the Independent, New Scientist, BBC Wildlife. Among ... Read more
Reviews for Bird Sense: What It´s Like to Be a Bird
An absolutely absorbing book, on almost every page there is an astonishing observation or revelation
Peter Parker
Daily Telegraph
An eye-opening guide to all matters ornithological ... His tour of the frontiers of our understanding of birds is stuffed with mind-boggling facts and insights. Thoroughly engaging, it also gives us a thrilling sense of the vast, unmapped ... Read more
Peter Parker
Daily Telegraph
An eye-opening guide to all matters ornithological ... His tour of the frontiers of our understanding of birds is stuffed with mind-boggling facts and insights. Thoroughly engaging, it also gives us a thrilling sense of the vast, unmapped ... Read more