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Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead
$24.99 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals | Reading Level: very good
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? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses q ...Show more
Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation by Tim Birkhead
$32.00 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals
A sweeping and lyrical history of the relationship between birdlife and humankind over twelve millennia, exploring how birds have captured our imaginations and inspired our culture and our science. In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling jour ...Show more
Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation by Tim Birkhead
$65.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A sweeping and lyrical history of the relationship between birdlife and humankind over twelve millennia, exploring how birds have captured our imaginations and inspired our culture and our science. In Birds and Us award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journ ...Show more
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (And Outside) a Bird's Egg by Tim Birkhead
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
'I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg' Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862 How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shape they are? When does the shell of an egg harden? Why do some eggs ...Show more
The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology by Tim Birkhead
$49.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
For thousands of years people have been fascinated by birds, and today that fascination is still growing. In 2007 bird-watching is one of the most popular pastimes, not just in Britain, but throughout the world, and the range of interest runs from the specialist to the beginner. In The Wisdom of Birds, ...Show more
What it's Like to Be a Bird (HB) by Tim Birkhead
$29.99 NZD
Category: Children
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly? Or to live high in the tree tops? Or perhaps you've wondered what birds do when no one is looking? Birds have some of the most extraordinary and peculiar behaviours on the planet. Ravens love PLAYING games. In winter, they sledge down snow-covered ro ...Show more
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