Details e-Book One Wild Bird at a Time
đ¸ Author(s): Bernd Heinrich
đ¸ Title: One Wild Bird at a Time
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Unique encounters with wild birds from the acclaimed scientist and âa dedicated watcher happy to knock down the fourth wall of zoologyâ (The Wall Street Journal). In his modern classics One Manâs Owl and Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably about his relationships with wild ravens and a great horned owl. In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds. There are countless books on bird behavior, but Heinrich argues that some of the most amazing bird behaviors fall below the radar of what most birds do in aggregate. Heinrichâs âpassionate observations [that] superbly mix memoir and scienceâ lead to fascinating questionsâand sometimes startling discoveries (The New York Times Book Review). A great crested flycatcher, while bringing food to the young in their nest, is attacked by the other flycatcher nearby. Why? A pair of Northern flickers hammering their nest-hole into the side of Heinrichâs cabin deliver the opportunity to observe the feeding competition between siblings, and to make a related discovery about nest-cleaning. One of a clutch of redstart warbler babies fledges out of the nest from twenty feet above the ground, and lands on the grass below. It canât fly. What will happen next? Heinrich âlooks closely, with his trademark âhands-and-knees scienceâ at its most engaging, [delivering] what can only be called psychological marvels of knowingâ (The Boston Globe). âAn engaging memoir of the opportunities for doing scientific research without leaving oneâs own backyard.ââKirkus Reviews