Content preview: I came across promotional posters in front of an airport
newsagent/book
store a couple of weeks ago pushing Tim Lowâ??s â??Where Song Beganâ??. It's
an attractive book with a Palm Cockatoo on front cover, 320 pp text. A dozen
pages in, and the hook was set. This is an amazing story of the Australian
bird fauna, so full of big ideas, I'm left with a continuum of one or more
bouncing around in my head at a time. From the titled platform of the book
â?? Australiaâ??s gift of songbirds (and many other groups of birds) to the
world, Tim provides highly readable and compelling explanations of a
kazillion
things about Aussie birds that I never knew. The book seems to me to deal
thoroughly about our birds from every conceivable angle from their
evolutionary
history and modern ecologies to relevant conservation issues such as fire
mismanagement in the top end in concert with weed proliferation, habitat
fragmentation and resulting ecological shifts (think noisy miner), to the
plight of migratory waders. There is also a great deal of thoughtful
consideration
of manâ??s changing fascination and involvement with birds (including
twitching!).
I canâ??t wait to read it again â?? will have many hours of flights from
Cocos to Sydney over the next couple of days to get started! John Weigel
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