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Consider the birds : who they are and what they do / Colin Tudge.
- Title
- Consider the birds : who they are and what they do / Colin Tudge.
- Author
- Tudge, Colin
- Publication
- London ; New York : Allen Lane, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | QL676 .T85 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 479 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Explores the life of birds. From the secrets of migration to their complicated family lives, their differing habitats and survival techniques to the secrets of flight, this work offers an account of how birds live, why they matter, and whether they really are dinosaurs.
- Subject
- Birds
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 460-[462]) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I. A Different Way of Being -- 1. What It Means to be a Flier -- 2. How Birds Became -- II. Dramatis Personae -- 3. Keeping Track: The Absolute Need to Classify -- 4. All the Birds in the World: An Annotated Cast List -- III. How Birds Live Their Lives -- 5. The Eating Machine -- 6. The World as an Oyster -- 7. Idyll and Mayhem: The Sex Lives of Birds -- 8. Families and Friends -- 9. The Mind of Birds -- IV. Birds and Us -- 10. Living with Birds and Learning from Birds -- Epilogue: A Matter of Attitude.
- ISBN
- 9781846140976 (hbk.)
- 1846140978 (hbk.)
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library