Roger Lederer Knihy

Unlock the secrets of bird names and their origins!

In Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs, ornithologist Roger Lederer guides the reader through the things that birds do every day to merely stay alive. Lederer shares how and why birds use their sensory abilities to see ultraviolet, find food, fly thousands of miles without stopping, change their songs in noisy cities, navigate by smell, and much more.

Birds celebrates the heyday of avian illustration in 40 artists' profiles, beginning in the early 1600s and continuing through to contemporary artists.