Aaaaw to Zzzzzd: The Words of Birds: North America, Britain, and Northern Europe

The distinctive and amazing songs and calls of birds: a meditation and a lexicon.

“A miraculous little book: a compressed encyclopedia of our fascination with avifauna.”
—The Nation
“A charming, funny, and eccentric book.”
—Times Literary Supplement
“An elegant tribute to the beauty of its subject.”
—Los Angeles Times

Birds sing and call, sometimes in complex and beautiful arrangements of notes, sometimes in one-line repetitions that resemble a ringtone more than a symphony. Listening, we are sti...