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The Secret Life of Birds - Who they are and what they do (Paperback)
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The Secret Life of Birds - Who they are and what they do (Paperback)
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List price R470
Loot Price R384
Discovery Miles 3 840
You Save R86 (18%)
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In The Secret Life of Birds, lifelong bird enthusiast Colin Tudge
explores the extraordinary variety, secret history and hidden
importance of birds around the world. Birds are beautiful,
intriguing and life-enhancing. They can do everything mammals can,
and even more besides. Collected here are birds who navigate using
the stars, tool-making crows, territorial robins, cooperative
penguins and swans who mate for life - among hundreds of others.
Revealing everything from why birds sing to how they fly, think,
bond and survive, from how they evolved (and whether it really is
from dinosaurs) to why, in so many ways, they are very much like
us, this rich, evocative book will make you love and admire the
birds that are all around you. 'Enjoyable ... entertaining ...
masterful' Stephen Moss, Guardian 'Simply fizzing with ideas ...
his heart is with the birds' Literary Review 'Inspired ... Tudge's
writing is always clear and frequently embellished with wry humour'
Richard Fortey, Sunday Telegraph 'Only when we read this
scintillating study do we see how little we've known about the
creatures we see around us' Michael Kerrigan, Scotsman Books of the
Year 'An author whose own deep relish for the extraordinary lives
of birds seems only marginally less pleasurable to him than sharing
that wonder with others' BBC Wildlife Magazine When Colin Tudge was
a small boy, he could recognize only five kinds of birds. After
studying zoology at Cambridge, Colin wrote for the New Scientist
and was a documentary maker for BBC radio. His other books, also
published by Penguin, include The Secret Life of Trees and So Shall
We Reap: What's Gone Wrong with the World's Food - and How to Fix
It.
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