TY - BOOK AU - Tudge,Colin TI - The bird: a natural history of who birds are, where they came from, and how they live SN - 0307342042 PY - 2009///], c2008 CY - New York PB - Crown Publishers KW - Birds KW - Evolution KW - History N1 - Originally published: Consider the birds : who they are and what they do. London : Allen Lane, 2008; Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-436) and index; A different way of being. What is means to be a flier ; How birds became -- Dramatis personae. Keeping track : the absolute need to classify ; All the birds in the world : an annotated cast list -- 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 -- Birds and us. Living with birds and learning from birds -- A matter of attitude ER -