Author: Doherty, Peter.
Title: Their Fate Is Our Fate: How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World.
Description: New York The Experiment, 2013. Paperback trade, very good condition, few black & white drawings, top corner front cover & first few pages minimally creased, minor edgewear, remainder stripe. 245 pp. Follows a diverse cast of bird species around the world - from tufted puffins in Puget Sound to griffon vultures in India, pigeons in East Asia, and wedge-tailed shearwaters off the islands of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, to illuminate bird's role as an early warning system for threats to the health of our planet and our well-being. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine with a Swiss colleague in 1996 for discovering the nature of the cellular immune defence, and was also recognised as Australian of the Year in 1997. ISBN: 9781615190911

Keywords: nature, birds, ecology, science, scientific, scientists, nobel prize, biosciences, physiologists, health, public health, environment, australia 9781615190911


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