The wisdom of birds : an illustrated history of ornithology
Birkhead, T. R.2008
Book
'The Wisdom of Birds' takes the reader on a journey that not only tells us about the lives of birds - from conception and egg, through territory and song, to migration and fully fledged breeder - but also shows how we have overcome superstition and untested 'truths' to know what we know, and how recent some of that knowledge is.
Main title:
The wisdom of birds : an illustrated history of ornithology / Tim Birkhead.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2008.
Collation:
x, 433 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-404) and index.
ISBN:
9780747592563 (hbk)
Dewey class:
598598BIR
Language:
English
BRN:
540499