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The Singing Life Of Birds: The Art And Science Of Listening To Birdsong
by Kroodsma, Donald
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0618405682
- ISBN 13
- 9780618405688
- Seller
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005. 1st Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Brand New copy including sealed, unopened audio CD. Truly collectible copy of fourth printing according to number line. 482 pages with Appendices, Notes, Bibliography and Index; text illustrations and diagrams; beige endpapers. Heavy and/or oversized book, which CANNOT be EXPEDITE shipped for the quoted shipping price. Contact us prior to purchasing if you require EXPEDITE US or any type of INTERNATIONAL shipping. Through personal stories, Kroodsma puts the reader inside the mind of a research scientist to explore how and why birds sing and how people can better understand them through their songs. Includes an audio CD of birdsongs.
Synopsis
Listen to birds sing as you’ve never listened before, as the world-renowned birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma takes you on personal journeys of discovery and intrigue. Read stories of wrens and robins, thrushes and thrashers, warblers and whip-poor-wills, bluebirds and cardinals, and many more bird. Learn how each acquires its songs, how songs vary from bird to bird and place to place, how some birds' singing is especially beautiful or ceaseless or complex, how some do not sing at all, how the often quiet female has the last word, and why. Hear a baby wren and the author’s own daughter babble as each learns its local dialect. Listen to the mockingbird by night and by day and count how many different songs he can sing. Marvel at the exquisite harmony in the duet of a wood thrush as he uses his two voice boxes to accompany himself. Feel the extraordinary energy in the songs just before sunrise as dawn’s first light sweeps across this singing planet. Hear firsthand the unmistakable evidence that there are not one but two species of marsh wrens and two species of winter wrens in North America. Learn not only to hear but to see birds sing in the form of sonagrams, as these visual images dance across the pages while you listen to the accompanying CD. Using your trained ears and eyes, you can begin your own journeys of discovery. Listen anew to birds in your backyard and beyond, exploring the singing minds of birds as they tell all that they know. Join Kroodsma not only in identifying but in identifying with singing birds, connecting with nature’s musicians in a whole new way.
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- Bookseller
- Modern First Editions Boston
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001858
- Title
- The Singing Life Of Birds: The Art And Science Of Listening To Birdsong
- Author
- Kroodsma, Donald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 4th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0618405682
- ISBN 13
- 9780618405688
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 482
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About Modern First Editions Boston
Growing collection of 900 + books, mostly from 60s, 70s and 80s. Vast majority of books are first editions, many of them first printings and signed. All books are from a private collection and are being sold now for the first time.Unless noted otherwise: books are without marks, original prices are not clipped and there are no former library books.Please contact me directly for commission free sales.
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