THE WISDOM OF BIRDS An Illustrated History of Ornithology

Tim Birkhead

ISBN 10: 074759256X / ISBN 13: 9780747592563

Published by Bloomsbury, 2008

About this Item

A terrific book book for anyone with an interest in ornithology with many colour plates. This is a lovely example. The d /w. is neatly price-clipped else both it and the book are very fine. A heavy tome which would attract extra postage for overseas delivery.

Seller Inventory # 001802

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE WISDOM OF BIRDS An Illustrated History of Ornithology
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074759256X
• ISBN 13: 9780747592563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ornithology.

About this title

Synopsis

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 America, but throughout the world, and the range of interest runs from the specialist to the beginner.In The Wisdom of Birds, Birkhead takes the reader on a journey that not only tells us about the extraordinary lives of birds - from conception and egg, through territory and song, to migration and fully fledged breeder - but also shows how, over centuries, we have overcome superstition and untested 'truths' to know what we know, and how recent some of that knowledge is.Conceived for a general audience, and illustrated throughout with more than 100 exquisitely beautiful illustrations, many of them rarely, if ever, seen before, The Wisdom of Birds is a book full of stories, knowledge and unexpected revelations.

About the Author

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.