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Writers Live - Tim Low on Where Song Began
20th Aug '14 @ Berkelouw Mona Vale


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Australia provided the world with a majority of its birds, according to biologist and prize-winning author Tim Low. You are invited to meet him when he introduces his new book Where Song Began at Berkelouw Books.

All the songbirds in Europe and North America, the parrots in Africa and South America, and even the dodo, had Australian ancestors, according to recent findings explained in Tim Low's book Where Song Began, an eye-opening exploration of the unique nature of Australian birds and their key role in ecology and global evolution.

Australia has long been renowned for its unusual marsupials, but its birds are even more remarkable, and not just because they succeeded in colonising other lands. Compared with those elsewhere, Australian birds are more likely to be intelligent, aggressive, loud, long-lived, and to live in complex societies. They are also ecologically more powerful, having profoundly influenced Australia's forests.

In Where Song Began,Tim Low explains how our birds came to be so extraordinary.

You are invited to meet Tim Low when he introduces his new book at 6.30pm on Wednesday, August 20th at Berkelouw Books in Mona Vale.

Bookings are essential and can be made by following the Eventbrite link below.

Cost is $ 9.00, $ 5.00 of which will be credited against any purchases made on the evening.

If you have any questions about this talk please call us on 9979 2112 or email us at monavale@berkelouw.com.au.

About the author:

Tim Low is a highly regarded biologist and writer. He is the prize-winning author of Wild Food Plants of Australia (1991), Feral Future (1999) and The New Nature (2001). He is currently co-editor of Wildlife Australia magazine. he works as an environmental consultant, and his reports, books, articles and talks have contributed to ecological thought and environmental policy in Australia and more widely.

 

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Where: 12-14 Park Street, Mona Vale, 2103, Sydney, AU
When: Wed, 20th Aug
Time: 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

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