Tim Birkhead: 5 books
The Most Perfect Thing
Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
A bird's egg is a nearly perfect survival capsule--an external womb--and one of natural selection's most wonderful creations.
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016.One of Forbes' Best Books About Birds and Birding in 2016.
Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead...
Die Sinne der Vögel oder Wie es ist, ein Vogel zu sein
Mit Zeichnungen von Katrina van Grouw
Language: German
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Wie es ist ein Vogel zu sein – ein bahnbrechender Blick auf die Sinneswelt der Vögel
Das Buch des britischen Ornithologen Tim Birkhead hat die englische Leserwelt im Sturm erobert –und begeistert nun auch das deutschsprachige Publikum.
Fliegen wie ein Vogel – das ist für viele...
Bird Sense
What It's Like to Be a Bird
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
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...
The Wonderful Mr Willughby
The First True Ornithologist
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
'Birkhead has combined ingenuity and perseverance to produce an evocative portrait of a great pioneer in the scientific study of birds' Literary Review
Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Along with his Cambridge tutor John...
The Red Canary
The Story of the First Genetically Engineered Animal
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Winner of the Consul Cremer Prize, The Red Canary follows the compelling quest to turn the green canary red.
The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. However, the idea was not new, for in the 1920s an amateur...