The Wisdom of Birds

Second-Hand Hardback | Published by: Bloomsbury 2008 | ISBN: 9780747592563. 1st edition. Book Condition – Very Good. Dust Jacket – Very good. Very lightly used. Slight fading to spine. 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. It was only in the nineteenth century that the ancient belief that swallows hibernated under water (!) finally gave way to general acceptance of the facts of migration. The Wisdom of Birds is a book full of stories, knowledge and unexpected revelations.