Several beautiful images, taken from books in our special collections, can now be viewed on the digital signage screen at Zoology Reception.They were all photographed for and reproduced in The wisdom of birds: an illustrated history of ornithology, by Tim R. Birkhead. London: Bloomsbury; 2008. ISBN 9780747592563. Hardback. £25. A copy can be found at Balfour Library shelfmark: K (227).
It was The Guardian's 'Book of the week' on Saturday October 18th 2008. You can read their review at http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/18/tim-birkhead-ornithology and see http://wisdomofbirds.co.uk/ or http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/The_Wisdom_of_Birds/9780747592563 for more details.
