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Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead
Category: Nature
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 q ...Show more
Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation by Tim Birkhead
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
A sweeping and lyrical history of the relationship between birdlife and humankind over twelve millennia, exploring how birds have captured our imaginations and inspired our culture and our science. In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling jour ...Show more
Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation by Tim Birkhead
Category: Science
A sweeping and lyrical history of the relationship between birdlife and humankind over twelve millennia, exploring how birds have captured our imaginations and inspired our culture and our science. In Birds and Us award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journ ...Show more
Ten Thousand Birds - Ornithology Since Darwin by Tim Birkhead
Category: Nature
Ten Thousand Birds provides a thoroughly engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a succession of visionary and often-controversial personalities, and by the unique social and scientific contexts in which these extraordinary individuals ...Show more
The Most Perfect Thing : Inside (And Outside) a Bird's Egg by Tim Birkhead
Category: Nature
The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology by Tim Birkhead
Category: Nature
For thousands of years people have been fascinated by birds, and today that fascination is still growing. In 2007 bird-watching is one of the most popular pastimes, not just in Britain, but throughout the world, and the range of interest runs from the specialist to the beginner. In The Wisdom of Birds, ...Show more
The Wonderful Mr Willughby - The First True Ornithologist by Tim Birkhead
Category: Nature
'Birkhead has combined ingenuity and perseverance to produce an evocative portrait of a great pioneer in the scientific study of birds' Literary ReviewFrancis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Along with his Cambridge tutor John Ray, Willug ...Show more
The Wonderful Mr Willughby - The First True Ornithologist by Tim Birkhead
Category: Nature
From the author of Bird Sense, a biography of Francis Willughby, the man who pulled the study of birds out of the dark ages and formed the foundations of modern ornithology.Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the rapidly accelerating scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Trav ...Show more
What it's Like to Be a Bird (HB) by Tim Birkhead
Category: Nature
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly? Or to live high in the tree tops? Or perhaps you've wondered what birds do when no one is looking? Birds have some of the most extraordinary and peculiar behaviours on the planet. Ravens love PLAYING games. In winter, they sledge down snow-covered ro ...Show more
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