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Birds of Paradise: Revealing the World's Most Extraordinary Birds

Birds of Paradise: Revealing the World's Most Extraordinary Birds

by Edwin Scholes (Author), Tim Laman (Author)

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    Hardcover 2012

    $16.36
Synopsis

"Birds of Paradise" is destined to be the first-ever popular book to reveal the most exotic birds on earth. Photographer and National Geographic grantee Tim Laman and co-author Edwin Scholes (ornithologist/leading authority) travelled to the most remote parts of the New Guinea wilderness - the only place these birds occur - to photograph and study their secret lives. The authors' documentation of the appearance, displays, and behaviours of these 39 species of birds has taken years of dedicated fieldwork. This high quality, large-format photography book will inform and enthral the book-buying public with images of astonishing beauty, solid yet approachable natural history, and a National Geographic message of conservation.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 228
 Publisher: National Geographic Society
Published: 23 Oct 2012
ISBN 10: 1426209584
ISBN 13: 9781426209581

Media Reviews
No group of birds in the world is more beautiful and more intriguing to science than the birds of paradise. Surprisingly, no book showing them displaying in the wild has been done before. But to gain such perspectives and develop such a wonderful collection of pictures has taken years. The result is truly breathtaking.
--Sir David Attenborough, filmmaker and creator of Life on Earth

You'll initially find it hard to believe that these pictures are real--but they are. These are the most beautiful photographs of the world's most beautiful birds. The birds' behavior, richly described in the text, is as remarkable as their appearance. This is a book like no other book.
--Jared Diamond, ornithologist and author of Guns, Germs, and Steel

The resulting extremes of color, form and behavior are beautifully documented in Schole's new book, co-authored with photographer Tim Laman. -Sciencefriday.com

The exhibit Birds of Paradise at the National Geographic museum in Washington, along with a book by Tim Laman and Edwin Scholes, offers research, photographs and video of the 39 species of the bird... -The Wall Street Journal

Author Bio
TIM LAMAN is a field biologist and wildlife photojournalist affiliated with the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. A fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers, he has photographed 20 articles for National Geographic magazine.

EDWIN SCHOLES, an ornithologist and biodiversity video curator at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, has studied the birds of paradise for more than a decade and is a leading authority on their behavior and evolution.