《何以为鸟》内容简介

　　本书是西布利总结数十年探索鸟类世界的心得，用手绘形式呈现的他眼中的鸟类世界。这不是一本鸟类辨识指南，而是一本全方位介绍鸟类生活的画册，跟随大师的笔触，你会惊觉鸟类远比我们想象中的更为丰富、复杂以及“深刻”。

　　鸟类时时刻刻都在做各种不同的决策，比如应该在何时何地筑巢，吃种子的山雀还会思考应该选择哪一粒种子，还要决定是把种子藏起来还是直接吃掉。本书从形态、生理构造、行为、演化等多个维度解析常见鸟类，其中包含了很多最新的科学研究。全书涵盖200多个鸟种，虽然大多是常见类群，但也研究了某些不常见但容易观察的鸟种，比如住在海边的北极海鹦；收录330余幅西布利的全新画作，其中84张主视觉图为真实鸟类大小，兼具科学性与艺术性。

　　西布利严谨的艺术作品和广博的专业知识堪称世界一流。本书英文版一经上市即成为爆款，目前已畅销全球，既适合观鸟者收藏查阅，也适合非观鸟者作为入门书籍。

　　作者：

　　[美]戴维·艾伦·西布利DAVIDALLENSIBLEY

　　北美观鸟大师、画鸟大师西布利出版了一系列以其名字命名的图鉴，并亲自绘制了书中的插图，畅销世界。他的名字一度被认为是“鸟类指南”的同义词，也因此被全球观鸟人推崇备至。他还在《史密森尼》(Smithsonian)、《科学》（Science)、《威尔逊鸟类学杂志》（ThewilsonJournalofOrnithology)、《观鸟》(BirdWatching)、《北美鸟类》(NorthAmericanBirds)以及《纽约时报》(TheNewyorkTimes)等各种刊物上发表过多篇文章，并获得过美压观鸟协会的罗杰·托里·彼得森终身成就奖(theRogerToryPetersonAward)和纽约林奈学会的艾森曼奖章(EisenmannMedal)。

　　译者：

　　蔡上逍

　　瑞典隆德大学动物生态学硕士，始终保持着对生物多样性的浓厚兴趣。目前专注于东亚-澳大利西亚迁飞区鸻鹬类的生态研究和保护工作，经常在中国、俄罗斯、澳大利亚等地进行鸟类调查与环志工作。发表过多篇鸟类迁徙和保护的学术论文，是《中国鸟类观察手册(英文版)》的译者之一。

　　审订：

　　刘阳

　　生态与演化博士、中山大学生态学院教授、中国动物学会理事、国际鸟类学家联合会委员。他领导的“鸟类生态与进化研究组”结合生态学、遗传学和行为学等多种研究手段，持续开展鸟类的繁殖、迁徙、扩散等行为的研究，探索了演化和生态因素对于鸟类多样性的塑造。他还是《中国鸟类观察手册》主编、《英国鸟类学会会刊》（Ibis）副主编。

What Makes me a Bird

This book is a summary of Sibley's decades of experience in exploring the bird world, and presents the bird world in his eyes in hand-drawn form. This is not a bird identification guide, but a comprehensive introduction to bird life, following the master's brush strokes, you will realize that birds are far more rich, complex and "deep" than we thought.

Birds are making decisions all the time, such as when and where to build their nests, and seed-eating chickadees are thinking about which seeds to choose, and deciding whether to hide them or eat them. This book analyzes common birds from multiple dimensions such as morphology, physiological structure, behavior, and evolution, including many of the latest scientific research. The book covers more than 200 bird species, most of which are common, but it also studies some unusual but easy to observe species, such as the Arctic puffin, which lives by the sea; More than 330 new Sibley paintings, including 84 main visual images of real bird size, are both scientific and artistic.

Sibley's rigorous artwork and extensive expertise are world class. The English version of the book became an instant hit and is now a global bestseller, suitable for both bird watchers and non-bird watchers as a primer.

Author:

DAVIDALLENSIBLEY

North American bird-watching master and bird painting master Sibley published a series of illustrated books named after him, and personally drew the illustrations in the book, which sold well in the world. His name was once considered a synonym for "bird guide" and is therefore revered by birdwatchers all over the world. He was in the Smithsonian (Smithsonian), Science (Science), the journal of ornithology Wilson (ThewilsonJournalofOrnithology), "the bird" (BirdWatching), the north American bird (NorthAmericanBi rds) and TheNewyorkTimes, among other publications, And won the pressure birding association of Roger Tory peterson, a lifetime achievement award (theRogerToryPetersonAward) and the New York of the linnean society eisenman medal (EisenmannMedal).

Translator:

CAI Shangxiao

She holds a Master's degree in Animal ecology from Lund University in Sweden and has always maintained a strong interest in biodiversity. Currently, he focuses on the ecological research and conservation of charadrippers in the migratory region of East Asia-Australia, and often conducts bird surveys and circumnavigation work in China, Russia, Australia and other places. He has published many academic papers on bird migration and conservation, and is one of the translators of the Handbook of Chinese Bird Observation (English version).

Reviewed:

Liu Yang

Doctor of Ecology and Evolution, Professor of School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, member of the Chinese Zoological Society, member of the International Union of Ornithologists. The "Bird Ecology and Evolution Research Group" led by him combines various research methods such as ecology, genetics and behavior, and continues to conduct research on bird reproduction, migration and dispersal, and explores the shaping of bird diversity by evolutionary and ecological factors. He is also editor of the Handbook of Chinese Bird Watching and Associate editor of the Journal of the British Ornithological Society (Ibis).