Download Beaks, Bones and Bird Songs: How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior AudioBook Free
When we visit a bird traveling from branch to branch gladly chirping, it is easy to assume they lead a simple life of flexibility, airfare, and feathers. Everything we don't see is the arduous, life-threatening difficulties they face at every second. Beaks, Bone fragments and Bird Music books the listener through the myriad, and frequently almost miraculous, things that parrots 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 metropolitan birds, which understand traffic through a keen understanding of placed speed boundaries. In interesting and accessible prose, Roger Lederer shares how and why parrots use their sensory talents to see ultraviolet, find food without finding it, fly a large number of a long way without stopping, change their melodies in noisy locations, navigate by smell, plus much more.
