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Posts Tagged ‘Tim Birkhead’
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg by Tim Birkhead From Bloomsbury Publishing: Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead opens this gripping story as a female guillemot chick hatches, already carrying her full quota of tiny eggs within her undeveloped ovary. As she grows into adulthood, only a few of her eggs mature, are […]
by Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny, and Bob Montgomerie
An excellent summary of what we know about birds and the people who discovered it.
Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin by Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny, and Bob Montgomerie From Princeton University Press: Ten Thousand Birds provides a thoroughly engaging and authoritative 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 […]
March 2, 2009
The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology
Reviews, Books, Biology & Behaviorby Tim Birkhead
What we know about birds, their biology, and behavior. And the even more fascinating story behind that knowledge.
