Listening in the Field: Recording and the Science of Birdsong Inspired by the likes of

Inspired by the likes of Darwin and his voyage on the Beagle

Very good hardcovers

Peggy Macnamara

Black & white photographs and maps

Volume XXV

Listening in the Field: Recording and the Science of Birdsong Inspired by the likes ofScientific observation and representation tend to be seen as exclusively visual affairs. But scientists have often drawn on sensory experiences other than the visual. Since the end of the nineteenth century, biologists have used a variety of techniques to register wildlife sounds. In this book, Joeri Bruyninckx describes the evolution of sound recording into a scientific technique for studying the songs and calls of wild birds and asks, what it means