One Wild Bird at a Time Portraits of..., Bernd Heinrich
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One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives

Author: Bernd Heinrich

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Unabridged: 5 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/17/2016

Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Animals


Synopsis

In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds. Heinrich's observations lead to fascinating questions - and sometimes startling discoveries. A great crested flycatcher bringing food to the young acts surreptitiously and is attacked by the mate. Why? A pair of Northern flickers hammering their nest-hole into the side of Heinrich's cabin delivers 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?

Author Bio

Bernd Heinrich is the bestselling and award-winning author of numerous books, including The Homing Instinct, Why We Run, Summer World, and his memoir, The Snoring Bird. He is a professor emeritus of biology at the University of Vermont, and he divides his time between Vermont and the forests of western Maine.

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