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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 his other books are Promiscuity, Great Auk Islands, The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Birds which won the McColvin medal and The Red Canary which won the Consul Cremer Prize. He is married with three children and lives in Sheffield.
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'There are plenty of writers who have an understanding of natural science, and there are plenty of scientists who try to write. But there are precious few with the combined abilities of Professor Tim Birkhead. His instinct for the stories within ornithology and his gift for making technical matters accessible and simple are rare talents indeed' * Mark Cocker, naturalist and co-author of 'Birds Britannica' * `You would have to be bird-brained not to fall for this history of twitchers and naturalists ... Magnificent' * Sunday Telegraph * 'Wonderful ... [Birkhead] has a historian's grasp of our intellectual past, a storyteller's gift for fine, clear and deceptively simple prose and an instinctive sense of the tales that are worth recounting' * Guardian * 'One of the most entertaining, informative and enthusiastic accounts of the history of ornithology; and of the many different ways in which we have observed, studied and wondered about birds' * Daily Telegraph *
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 074759256X
- ISBN 13 9780747592563
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages433
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