by Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny, and Bob Montgomerie
An excellent summary of what we know about birds and the people who discovered it.
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Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin by Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny, and Bob Montgomerie From Princeton University Press: Ten Thousand Birds provides a thoroughly engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a succession of visionary and often-controversial personalities, and by the unique social and scientific […]