[lit-ideas] Re: Bird song
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 08:29:14 EDT
In a message dated 5/30/2004 8:00:33 AM Eastern Standard Time,
cmharris@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
moreover..and while we are on the topic...an interesting essay on bird song
can be read at:
http://www.pbs.org/lifeofbirds/songs/
Guess it's time for a cup of coffee and to retire back to the Slough of
Lurk.
--- I was recently reading the script for Dennis Potter's _The Singing
Detective_ (Faber -- originally BBC series -- now a major feature film with
Robert
Downey Jr).
Potter has one of the characters sing (lipsync) 'Bird songs at eventide'.
(For some reason there is a typo in the script, and the title of the song
reads, 'Bird song at eventide', sic in singular. Great song by Coates and
Barrie
anyway...)
There are a couple of books on bird song -- here below is the amazon.com
description of one. (There is one even called "The song of the dodo" which
surprised me as I thought the bird was mute).
Cheers,
JL
----
Bird Song has long been an inspiration to poets, and a delight to many other
people, but why do birds sing? Bird song has been studied extensively in the
past few decades, so that there is now hardly an area of animal behaviour on
to which studies of song do not shed light. This book explores the study of
bird song from the biological viewpoint, reviewing the literature written on
the subject and considering its intricate nature. It is written with a wide
readership in mind so that, while undergraduate and postgraduate students of
biology may gain particularly from it, both professional biologists interested
in bird behaviour and amateur ornithologists with some knowledge of biology
will also find it a mine of information.
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