Tim Birkhead Bird sense

"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...

Engels | 288 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Tim Birkhead What it's like to be a bird

Non-fictie

Engels | 47 pagina's | Bloomsbury Children's Books, London | 2023

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Tim Birkhead The most perfect thing

inside (and outside) a bird's egg

Engels | 288 pagina's | Bloomsbury, New York | 2016

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Tim Birkhead The wisdom of birds

an illustrated history of ornithology

Rijk geïllustreerde cultuurgeschiedenis van de beoefening van de ornithologie.

Non-fictie

Engels | 437 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London [etc.] | 2011

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Tim Birkhead Bird sense

what it's like to be a bird

Engels | 265 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London [etc.] | 2012

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Tim Birkhead The red canary

the story of the first genetically engineered animal

Engels | 284 pagina's | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London | 2003

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