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What It's Like to Be a Bird
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 pitc...
A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation
From award-winning author and ornithologist Tim Birkhead, a sweeping history of the long and close relationship between birds and humans Since the daw...
Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg
'I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg' Thomas We...
Two species of magpie feature in this book, the Black-billed Magpie, familiar to most Europeans, which occurs throughout much of the northern hemisphe...
The First True Ornithologist
'Birkhead has combined ingenuity and perseverance to produce an evocative portrait of a great pioneer in the scientific study of birds' Literary Revie...
The story of the author's research expeditions in the Canadian Arctic, this book is for professional and amateur ornithologists, students in ecology a...
Ornithology since Darwin
Ten Thousand Birds provides a thoroughly engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a...
The Story of the First Genetically Engineered Animal
"First published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicholson in 2003"--T.p. verso....
An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition
Birkhead reveals a world in which males and females vie with each other as they strive to maximize their reproductive success. Color illustrations....
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...
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Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife
The life, death and afterlife of one of the true icons of extinction, the Great Auk Since 1950 more than seventy percent of the world's seabirds have ...