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The Brilliance of Birds

Skye Wishart author Edin Whitehead author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Random House New Zealand Ltd

Published:17th Sep '19

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New Zealand birds like you've never seen them before. Who knew that the morepork, our forest-dwelling owl, can turn its head 270 degrees? Or that the eastern bar-tailed godwit doubles its body weight before undertaking an epic and continuous migration of 11,000 kilometres? Or that the tui has a specially placed voicebox, enabling it to duet with itself, sometimes producing sounds too high-frequency for humans to hear? Zany, off-kilter, wondrous and wild, The Brilliance of Birds gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the lives of some of New Zealand's feathered friends.

ISBN: 9780143772156

Dimensions: 228mm x 199mm x 36mm

Weight: 1510g

384 pages