Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs, Roger Lederer
Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs, Roger Lederer
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Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs
How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior

Author: Roger Lederer

Narrator: Charles Constant

Unabridged: 7 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/30/2017

Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Animals


Synopsis

When we see a bird flying from branch to branch happily chirping, it is easy to imagine they lead a simple life of freedom, flight, and feathers. What we don't see is the arduous, life-threatening challenges they face at every moment. Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs guides the listener through the myriad, and often almost miraculous, things that birds do every day to merely stay alive. Like the goldfinch, which manages extreme weather changes by doubling the density of its plumage in winter. Or urban birds, which navigate traffic through a keen understanding of posted speed limits. In engaging and accessible prose, Roger Lederer shares how and why birds use their sensory abilities to see ultraviolet, find food without seeing it, fly thousands of miles without stopping, change their songs in noisy cities, navigate by smell, and much more.

About Roger Lederer

Roger J. Lederer has taught ornithology and ecology courses, consulted for governmental agencies, environmental organizations and schools, and presented hundreds of public presentations to a wide variety of audiences. Lederer served as Chair of Biological Sciences, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences, Endowed Professor of Environmental Literacy, and Director of a 4000 acre ecological reserve.

He has been contacted by BBC, National Geographic, National Public Radio, National Canadian Television, Vanity Fair Magazine, The Guinness Book of World Records, Real Simple Magazine, the Detroit Free Press, Voice of America, Fox TV, ABC News, Conde Nast Magazine, and many other organizations and individuals for authoritative information on wild birds via his popular website, Ornithology.com.

Since 2000, Lederer has been a guest speaker on over twenty cruises, speaking on the flora, fauna, ecology and environment of the cruise destinations.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

There's a lot of good information about birds & it was an enjoyable audiobook. It was a bit dense at times. For instance, I'm not well versed in the scientific names of bird anatomy & Lederer felt that one quick explanation of the parts were enough, so I had to backtrack occasionally. I prefer that......more

Goodreads review by Deb✨

Oh how I love to wake up in the mornings and hear the birds singing to bring in a new day! I love birds and "Beaks, Bones and Bird Songs" was a terrific book that covered so many different facts about a huge amount of birds from all around the world. It's amazing all of the hurdles that birds have t......more