Where song began : Australia's birds and how they changed the world / Birds
Low, Tim, 1956-,
Where song began : Australia's birds and how they changed the world / Tim Low. - 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-377) and index.
Renowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds that are just as unusual, just as striking, a result of the continent's tens of millions of years of isolation. Compared with birds elsewhere, ours are more likely to be intelligent, aggressive and loud, to live in complex societies, and to be large and long-lived.
9780670077960
Birds--Behavior--Australia.
Birds--History.--Australia
598.0994
Where song began : Australia's birds and how they changed the world / Tim Low. - 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-377) and index.
Renowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds that are just as unusual, just as striking, a result of the continent's tens of millions of years of isolation. Compared with birds elsewhere, ours are more likely to be intelligent, aggressive and loud, to live in complex societies, and to be large and long-lived.
9780670077960
Birds--Behavior--Australia.
Birds--History.--Australia
598.0994