The bird
Subtitle: a natural history of who birds are, where they came from, and how they live
By: Colin Tudge
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780307342041
Work titles: Consider the birds
Notes: Originally published: Consider the birds : who they are and what they do.  London : Allen Lane, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-433) and index.
Table of contents: title: A different way of being. What is means to be a flier ; How birds became; title: Dramatis personae. Keeping track : the absolute need to classify ; All the birds in the world : an annotated cast list; title: How birds live their lives. The eating machine ; The world as an oyster ; Idyll and mayhem : the sex lives of birds ; Families and friends ; The mind of birds; title: Birds and us. Living with birds and learning from birds; title: A matter of attitude.