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Tim Birkhead - The Wisdom of Birds
October 2008 to January 2009
Tim Birkhead is available for library events and talks to reading groups.
Audiences 40 +
www.bloomsbury.com/timbirkhead
In The Wisdom of Birds, Birkhead takes the reader on a journey that not only tells us about the extraordinary lives of birds - from conception and egg, through territory and song, to migration and fully fledged breeder - but also shows how, over centuries, we have overcome superstition and untested 'truths' to know what we know, and how recent some of that knowledge is. Tim Birkhead is a professor at the University of Sheffield where he teaches animal behaviour and the history of science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and his research has taken him all over the world in the quest to understand the lives of birds. He has written for The Independent, New Scientist, BBC Wildlife.
Requests to: Jude Drake, Tel: 0207 494 6470 Email: jude-drake@bloomsbury.com