Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird - Hardcover

Birkhead, Tim

 
9781408820131: Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1408820137 ISBN 13: 9781408820131
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012

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A hugely engaging book about birds, their senses and behaviour that is informed by an attractive blend of personal experience, entertaining stories and cutting-edge science.

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Tim Birkhead FRS is an author and biologist, emeritus Professor of Behaviour and Evolution at the University of Sheffield, one of Britain's foremost ornithologists, and a leading light in popular science communication. His professional interests span ornithology, evolution and reproductive biology, as well as the history of science. He is known for his work on both the mating systems of birds and the history of ornithology. He has also led one of the world's best-known long-term research projects, studying the biology and population dynamics of Britain's auks and other seabirds.

Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004, Tim's awards include the Elliot Coues Medal for outstanding contributions to ornithological research, the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour medal, the BOU's Godman-Salvin Medal, for distinguished ornithological work, the Zoological Society of London's Silver Medal, and the Stephen Jay Gould Prize.

Tim has written or edited 15 books, including four popular science titles published by Bloomsbury - The Wisdom of Birds (2008), Bird Sense (2012), The Most Perfect Thing (2017) and The Wonderful Mr Willughby (Bloomsbury 2018), with his latest work devoted to the life and afterlife of a true icon of extinction, The Great Auk (2024).

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Verlag
Bloomsbury Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1408820137
ISBN 13 
9781408820131
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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