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    Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs: How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior
    Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs: How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior
    Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs: How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior
    Audiobook7 hours

    Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs: How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior

    Written by Roger Lederer

    Narrated by Charles Constant

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    About this audiobook

    When we see a bird flying from branch to branch happily chirping, it is easy to imagine they lead a simple life of freedom, flight, and feathers. What we don't see is the arduous, life-threatening challenges they face at every moment. Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs guides the listener through the myriad, and often almost miraculous, things that birds do every day to merely stay alive. Like the goldfinch, which manages extreme weather changes by doubling the density of its plumage in winter. Or urban birds, which navigate traffic through a keen understanding of posted speed limits. In engaging and accessible prose, Roger Lederer shares how and why birds use their sensory abilities to see ultraviolet, find food without seeing it, fly thousands of miles without stopping, change their songs in noisy cities, navigate by smell, and much more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 30, 2017
    ISBN9781541475199
    Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs: How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior

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    • 5/5
      Great listen I never knew how sound was so important to birds. Plus their eyes are so much larger than mamamals by body weight awesome
    • 5/5
      Includes really good info. One of the best books on birds. It will give you a detailed understanding of birds ranging from their senses to migration to anatomy.
    • 5/5
      Gave an arc of knowledge and awareness that helped me appreciate this important part of our world
    • 4/5
      Very informative but also very sad. Humans are such a detriment to all of the natural world.