Bird Talk by Barbara Ballentine HARDBACK 9781501753428

Bird Talk\nby Barbara Ballentine\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Barbara Ballentine\nTitle: Bird Talk\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Zoology: birds (ornithology)\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781501753428\nISBN-10: 1501753428\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nBird Talk delves into new scientific developments to reveal the complexities of how birds make, learn, and use sound in a bewildering array of songs and calls. The beauty of birdsong is one of the joys of nature, and this book reveals how songs are learnt and performed, why the quality of a male''s repertoire can affect his mating success, and how birds use song-matching and countersinging in territorial disputes. \nBird Talk illustrates how birds communicate through visual si.