Bernd Heinrich
One Wild Bird at a Time
Portraits of Individual Lives
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Unique encounters with wild birds from the acclaimed scientist and a dedicated watcher happy to knock down the fourth wall of zoology (The Wall Street Journal). In his modern classics One Man's 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. Heinrich's passionate observations [th…
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Unique encounters with wild birds from the acclaimed scientist and a dedicated watcher happy to knock down the fourth wall of zoology (The Wall Street Journal). In his modern classics One Man's 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. Heinrich's passionate observations [that] superbly mix memoir and science lead to fascinating questions-and 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 Heinrich's 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 can't fly. What will happen next? Heinrich looks closely, with his trademark 'hands-and-knees science' at its most engaging, [delivering] what can only be called psychological marvels of knowing (The Boston Globe). An engaging memoir of the opportunities for doing scientific research without leaving one's own backyard.-Kirkus Reviews
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-544-38640-2
- EAN: 9780544386402
- Produktnummer: 27883782
- Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 235 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 18'481 KB
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BERND HEINRICH is an acclaimed scientist and the author of numerous books, including Winter World, Mind of the Raven, Why We Run, and The Homing Instinct. Among Heinrich's many honors is the 2013 PEN New England Award for nonfiction for Life Everlasting.
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