The bird : a natural history of who birds are, where they came from, and how they live /
Tudge, Colin.
The bird : a natural history of who birds are, where they came from, and how they live / Colin Tudge. - 1st American ed. - New York : Crown Publishers, c2008. - xvi, 462 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Originally published: Consider the birds : who they are and what they do. London : Allen Lane, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-433) and index.
A different way of being. What is means to be a flier ; How birds became -- Dramatis personae. Keeping track : the absolute need to classify ; All the birds in the world : an annotated cast list -- How birds live their lives. The eating machine ; The world as an oyster ; Idyll and mayhem : the sex lives of birds ; Families and friends ; The mind of birds -- Birds and us. Living with birds and learning from birds -- A matter of attitude.
9780307342041 0307342042
2010278090
Birds.
Birds--Evolution.
Birds--Evolution.
QL673 / .T77 2008
598
The bird : a natural history of who birds are, where they came from, and how they live / Colin Tudge. - 1st American ed. - New York : Crown Publishers, c2008. - xvi, 462 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Originally published: Consider the birds : who they are and what they do. London : Allen Lane, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-433) and index.
A different way of being. What is means to be a flier ; How birds became -- Dramatis personae. Keeping track : the absolute need to classify ; All the birds in the world : an annotated cast list -- How birds live their lives. The eating machine ; The world as an oyster ; Idyll and mayhem : the sex lives of birds ; Families and friends ; The mind of birds -- Birds and us. Living with birds and learning from birds -- A matter of attitude.
9780307342041 0307342042
2010278090
Birds.
Birds--Evolution.
Birds--Evolution.
QL673 / .T77 2008
598