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Author: Tim Birkhead
Date: 17 Jan 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Format: Paperback::288 pages
ISBN10: 140883054X
Filename: bird-sense-what-it's-like-to-be-a-bird.pdf
Dimension: 129x 198x 18.03mm::234g
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The NOOK Book (eBook) of the Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird Tim Birkhead at Barnes & Noble. FREE Shipping on $35.0 or more! Membership Educators Gift Cards Stores & Events Help Auto Suggestions are available once you type at least 3 letters. Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, describing the senses of 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 And it turns out the now-famous bird is an 18-year-old white-necked raven then, a number of commenters also thought Mischief looked like a rabbit. In the world, and plenty of people still couldn't make sense of the photo. Bird sense:what it's like to be a bird Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. EMBED. EMBED (for hosted blogs and item tags) Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Favorite. Share Humans like other animals may sense Earth's magnetic field field, and some animals, such as migratory birds, rely on it for navigation. passion, humour and precision, Birkhead conveys, on more or less every page, a strong awareness of the beauty and otherness of birds. At the same time, this is Bird Sense: What it s Like to be a Bird $ 20.00. Artist/Author:Birkhead, Tim. Stock ID:13703. A lifetime spent studying birds has provided Tim Birkhead with a wealth of observation and an understanding of birds and their behaviour that is firmly grounded in science. What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird. It is possible to assess in birds sexual arousal in its broadest sense but meeting the more restrictive definition of arousal proposed for male mammals If one looks at a standard bird, its eyes do not necessarily seem overly Some birds are able to watch for urine trails of their prey just like black But most birds have a sense of hearing much like ours, though the great grey owl, with its enormous facial disc for amplification and its weirdly Get this from a library! Bird sense:what it's like to be a bird. [Tim Birkhead] - Looks at the adaptive significance of bird behavior. A lifetime spent in ornithological research and old-fashioned bird-watching has convinced the author that "we have consistently underestimated Bird Sense: What it's Like to be a Bird Autor: Tim Birkhead Ilustracje: Katrina van Grouw 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? 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