EVER wondered what it might be like to be a bird soaring through the skies? You’re not alone.
You need only consider a handful of metaphors – bird-brained, hawk-eyed and pigeon-toed – to see how our feathered friends permeate our thinking and drive our curiosity. So what would an avian existence be like?
In Bird Sense, Tim Birkhead, a zoologist at the University of Sheffield, UK, attempts to get to the bottom of that question. It’s an impossible dream, of course, but by examining a bird’s basic senses, he manages to provide a real flavour of life from a bird’s-eye view.
“By examining a bird’s basic senses,…
