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    What it’s Like to be a Bird

    Tim Birkhead

    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…

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    Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation

    Tim Birkhead

    In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified…

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    The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist

    Tim Birkhead

    From the author of Bird Sense and The Most Perfect Thing, a biography of Francis Willughby, the first ornithologist

    Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the scientific…

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    The Red Canary: The Story of the First Genetically Engineered Animal

    Tim Birkhead

    In the 1870s English canary breeders caused a scandal by feeding their Norwich canaries with red peppers to turn them orange. A German bird enthusiast, Hans Duncker tried to breed…

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    Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby FRS (1635-1672)

    Francis Willughby transformed the study of natural history in the mid-1600s. Using previously unexplored archives and new discoveries we show that Willughby was a polymath, a true virtuoso, who made…

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    Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation

    Tim Birkhead

    From award-winning author and ornithologist Tim Birkhead, a sweeping history of the long and close relationship between birds and humans

    Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our…

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    Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird

    Tim Birkhead

    A hugely engaging book about birds, their senses and behaviour that is informed by an attractive blend of personal experience, entertaining stories and cutting-edge science.

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    The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg

    Tim Birkhead

    A bird’s egg is a nearly perfect survival capsule–an external womb–and one of natural selection s most wonderful creations.

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    Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin

    Tim Birkhead,Jo Wimpenny,Bob Montgomerie

    Provides a history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a succession of visionary and often-controversial personalities, and by the unique social and scientific…

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    Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection

    Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection presents the ways in which sperm compete to fertilize eggs and how this has prompted reinterpretations of breeding behaviour. This book provides a theoretical framework…

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    Sperm Biology: An Evolutionary Perspective

    Represents the analysis of the evolutionary significance of sperm phenotypes and derived sperm traits and the possible selection pressures responsible for sperm-egg coevolution. This book focuses on the intricacies of…

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    Elementum Journal: Shape

    Jay Armstrong

    An illustrated journal of nature writing.

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