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Nature's music : the science of birdsong / editors Peter Marler, Hans Slabbekoorn.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birdsongs.
- Birds--Vocalization.
- Birds.
- Birds--Behavior.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (556 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our understanding of how and why birds sing, what their songs and calls mean, and how they have evolved. All contributors have strived to speak, not only to fellow experts, but also to the general reader. The result is a book of readable science, richly illustrated with recordings and pictures of the sounds of birds. Bird song is much more than just one behaviour of a single, particular group of or
- Contents:
- front cover; copyright; toc; front matter; body; back matter; index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [388]-457) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-96690-4
- 9786610966905
- 0-08-047355-5
- OCLC:
- 469401909
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