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"A hugely engaging book about birds, their senses, and behaviour that is informed by an attractive blend of personal experience, entertaining stories, and cutting-edge science. From the author of "The Wisdom of Birds.""@en
"A hugely engaging book about birds, their senses, and behaviour that is informed by an attractive blend of personal experience, entertaining stories, and cutting-edge science. From the author of "The Wisdom of Birds.""
"Looks at the adaptive significance of bird behavior. A lifetime spent in ornithological research and old-fashioned bird-watching has convinced the author that "we have consistently underestimated what goes on in a bird's head." He describes how using the latest available tools, neurobiologists have uncovered new aspects of bird perception--e.g., the fact that female birds that see in the ultraviolet range chose mates on the basis of characteristics we can't directly perceive such as plumage markings. Even more fascinating, Birkhead explains that some birds "tend to use their right eye for close-up activities like feeding and the left eye for more distant activities such as scanning for predators." Another unexpected discovery which he hopes may prove relevant to the treatment of neuro-degenerative brain disease in humans is the plasticity of the brains of birds that live in temperate regions."
"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 addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment and to interact with each other. Our affinity for birds is often said to be the result of shared senses -- vision and hearing -- but how exactly do their senses compare with our own? And what about a birds' sense of taste, or smell, or touch or the ability to detect the earth's magnetic field? Or the extraordinary ability of desert birds to detect rain hundreds of kilometres away -- how do they do it? Bird Sense is based on a conviction that we have consistently underestimated what goes on in a bird's head. Our understanding of bird behaviour is simultaneously informed and constrained by the way we watch and study them. By drawing attention to the way these frameworks both facilitate and inhibit discovery, it identifies ways we can escape from them to seek new horizons in bird behaviour. There has never been a popular book about the senses of birds. No one has previously looked at how birds interpret the world or the way the behaviour of birds is shaped by their senses. A lifetime spent studying birds has provided Tim Birkhead with a wealth of observation and an understanding of birds and their behaviour that is firmly grounded in science. - Publisher."

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"Bird Sense : What it is Like to Be a Bird"
"Bird sense : what it's like to be a bird"@en
"Bird sense : what it's like to be a bird"
"De zintuigen van vogels : hoe voelt het om een vogel te zijn?"
"L'oiseau et ses sens"
"Niao de gan guan : dang yi zhi niao shi sheng me gan jue?"
"Die Sinne der Vögel oder Wie es ist, ein Vogel zu sein Mit Zeichnungen von Katrina van Grouw"
"Bird sense what it's like to be a bird"
"Die Sinne der Vögel oder Wie es ist, ein Vogel zu sein"
"Bird sense"
"鳥的感官 : 當一隻鳥是什麼感覺?"

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