Browse by category
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead
$19.99 AUD
Category: Natural World & Animals
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
The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology by Tim Birkhead
$39.99 AUD
Category: Natural World & Animals
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
The Wonderful Mr Willughby - The First True Ornithologist by Tim Birkhead
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Birkhead has combined ingenuity and perseverance to produce an evocative portrait of a great pioneer in the scientific study of birds' Literary ReviewFrancis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Along with his Cambridge tutor John Ray, Willug ...Show more
What it's Like to Be a Bird (HB) by Tim Birkhead
$26.99 AUD
Category: Kids' Reference
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
0 - 3 of 4