Authors: Tim Birkhead
Bird Sense (43 page)
Tim Birkhead is a professor at the University of Sheffield where he teaches animal behaviour and the history of science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and his research has taken him all over the world in the quest to understand the lives of birds. He has written for the
Independent
,
New Scientist
and
BBC Wildlife
. Among his other books are
Promiscuity
,
Great Auk Islands
,
The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Birds
which won the McColvin medal,
The Red Canary
which won the Consul Cremer Prize and
The Wisdom of Birds
which was voted ‘Best Bird Book of Year’ (2009) by the British Trust for Ornithology and British Birds. He is married with three children and lives in Sheffield.
The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Ornithology
(co-editor)
Sperm Competition in Birds
Great Auk Islands
The Magpies
Promiscuity
The Red Canary
The Wisdom of Birds
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2012
by Tim Birkhead
Illustrations ©
2012
by Katrina van Grouw
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Birkhead, T. R.
Bird sense : what it’s like to be a bird / by Tim Birkhead.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN 978-0-8027-7968-7
1
. Birds—Physiology.
2
. Birds—Behavior.
3
. Birds—Psychology. I. Title.
QL
698
.B
57
2012
598
—dc
23
2011043684
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First U.S. edition
2012
This electronic edition published in May 2012