Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed An Introduction to Birdsong

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9781780720470
  • 03 november 2011
  • 288 pagina's
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A witty, eloquent and perceptive book - with an accompanying podcast available online - which will tune your ears to the delightful songs of the birds around you.

This vital book - with a free CD and podcast - takes you from winter into deepest spring, teaching you to how recognise bird song after song as the chorus swells. You start with robin, and end up listening to nightingales.

"Most of us can see, but not everyone looks. Most of us can hear, but not everyone listens. This book will help you do both. And, above all, it will tell you how to enjoy." Bill Oddie

"He'll tune your ears to winter's lonely voices - robins, wrens, long-tailed tits - before preparing you for the exultant sounds of spring." The Times

Learning to identify birdsong is not just a way to become a better bird-spotter. It is tuning in: a way of hearing the soundtrack of Planet Earth...

Why do birds sing? What are they trying to say?

Birdsong is not just about natural history. It is also about our history. We got melody from birds as we got rhythm from the womb.

This vital book, with an accompanying podcast available online, takes you from winter into deepest spring, teaching you how to recognise song after song as the chorus swells. Beginning with the thin, soft song of the robin and ending with the life-affirming melody of nightingales. Along the way, you will learn the science of birdsong the difference between song and call, the physiology of songbirds, what birdsong tells us about evolution, and indeed the very beginnings of life itself.

The aim is to give you a flying start in birdsong so that, after reading this book, you'll be listening to order, not chaos, to Bach, not white noise. You will be more aware of the wild world, and better able to understand it.

Accompanying podcast link provided in the book

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Bindwijze
Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
03 november 2011
Aantal pagina's
288
Illustraties
Nee

Betrokkenen

Hoofdauteur
Simon Barnes
Hoofduitgeverij
Short Books Ltd

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Originele titel
Barnes

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Editie
2 Rev ed
Extra groot lettertype
Nee
Product breedte
130 mm
Product hoogte
27 mm
Product lengte
198 mm
Studieboek
Nee
Verpakking breedte
129 mm
Verpakking hoogte
24 mm
Verpakking lengte
196 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
505 g

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9781780720470

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