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Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird Reprint Edition
Author(s): Tim Birkhead (Author)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
- Publication Date: May 21, 2013
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1620401894
- ISBN-13: 9781620401897
Book Description
What is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? How do desert birds detect rain hundreds of kilometers away? How do birds navigate by using an innate magnetic compass? Tracing the history of how our knowledge about birds has grown, particularly through advances in technology over the past fifty years, Bird Sense tells captivating stories about how birds interact with one another and their environment.
Never before has there been a popular book about how intricately bird behavior is shaped by birds’ senses. A lifetime spent studying birds has provided Tim Birkhead with a wealth of fieldwork experiences, insights, and a unique understanding of birds, all firmly grounded in science. No one who reads Bird Sense can fail to be dazzled by it.
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