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The distinctive and amazing songs and calls of birds: a meditation and a lexicon.

“A miraculous little book: a compressed encyclopedia of our fascination with avifauna.”
—The Nation

“A charming, funny, and eccentric book.”
—Times Literary Supplement

“An elegant tribute to the beauty of its subject.”
—Los Angeles Times

Birds sing and call, sometimes in complex and beautiful arrangements of notes, sometimes in one-line repetitions that resemble a ringtone more than a symphony. Listening, we are stirred, transported, and even envious of birds' ability to produce what Shelley called “profuse strains of unpremeditated art.” And for hundreds of years, we have tried to write down what we hear when birds sing. Poets have put birdsong in verse (Thomas Nashe: “Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo”) and ornithologists have transcribed bird sounds more methodically

Aaaaw to Zzzzzd The Words of Birds North America

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      Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/08/2010
      ISBN13: 9780262014298, 978-0262014298
      ISBN10: 0262014297

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The distinctive and amazing songs and calls of birds: a meditation and a lexicon.

      “A miraculous little book: a compressed encyclopedia of our fascination with avifauna.”
      —The Nation

      “A charming, funny, and eccentric book.”
      —Times Literary Supplement

      “An elegant tribute to the beauty of its subject.”
      —Los Angeles Times

      Birds sing and call, sometimes in complex and beautiful arrangements of notes, sometimes in one-line repetitions that resemble a ringtone more than a symphony. Listening, we are stirred, transported, and even envious of birds' ability to produce what Shelley called “profuse strains of unpremeditated art.” And for hundreds of years, we have tried to write down what we hear when birds sing. Poets have put birdsong in verse (Thomas Nashe: “Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo”) and ornithologists have transcribed bird sounds more methodically

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