Where Song Began: Australia’s Birds and How They Changed the World by Tim Low

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, with tail corners now protected with book tape. Tiny mark on half-title page. Previous owner has signed inside page. Pages are sunned. Body text and binding are still very good. Large trade paperback.

Renowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds that are just as unusual, just as striking, a result of the continent's tens of millions of years of isolation. Compared with birds elsewhere, ours are more likely to be intelligent, aggressive and loud, to live in complex societies, and are long-lived. They're also ecologically more powerful, exerting more influence on forests than other birds. But unlike the mammals, the birds did not stay in Australia; they spread around the globe. No other continent has been as important for bird evolution.