Silke Kipper
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Silke Kipper
Silke Kipper studied Biology and obtained her PhD at the Free University of Berlin. Since then, her research at home and abroad has focused on the question of how and what information animals exchange through songs, calls and other vocalisations. She has devoted many a waking spring night to her special research passion, the nightingale and its beguiling song. Kipper lives with her family in the Prignitz region of Brandenburg.
Silke Kipper studied Biology and obtained her PhD at the Free University of Berlin. Since then, her research at home and abroad has focused on the question of how and what information animals exchange through songs, calls and other vocalisations. She has devoted many a waking spring night to her special research passion, the nightingale and its beguiling song. Kipper lives with her family in the Prignitz region of Brandenburg.
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Year of Publication: 2025
Silke KipperYear of Publication: 2025
The Joy of Birdsong
Whether in the city or in the countryside, in the forest or by the lake: we are surrounded by birds. We usually only pay attention to them when they become particularly loud, clamouring, calling out to each other – or singing. In the morning, the blackbird outside our window wakes us up, on the way to work we hear the starlings and sparrows, and late in the evening the queen of all songbirds,...
Year of Publication: 2022
Silke KipperYear of Publication: 2022
The Nightingale
Actually, nightingales are inconspicuous small brown birds. Average in appearance, weight and behaviour. But when the males begin to sing on warm spring nights, the hearts of lovers beat just as fast as those of ornithologists. The nightingale’s song is anything but average and its complexity, with no less than two hundred different types of stanzas, outshines that of other songbirds. But...