(Mobile ebook) The Nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy
| #1735977 in Books | 2011-10-15 | 2011-09-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.00 x6.10 x9.10l,.87 | File Name: 0674061934 | 352 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Intriguing look into the family lives of birds- and how we're like them|By Cissa|I first became intrigued with Bernd Heinrich's books because I'm fascinated by corvids. We have a couple of crow families locally, and it's so interesting to watch the adults mature as parents, and the "kids" grow up and set off on their own- sometimes with parental approval, and occasionally in m|From Publishers Weekly|Blending scientific research with memoir, Heinrich (A Year in the Maine Woods) reveals the complex courtship and mating rituals of birds—along with the startling commonalities between certain human and avian domestic arrangem
Why are the eggs of the marsh wren deep brown, the winter wren's nearly white, and the gray catbird's a brilliant blue? And what in the DNA of a penduline tit makes the male weave a domed nest of fibers and the female line it with feathers, while the bird-of-paradise male builds no nest at all, and his bower-bird counterpart constructs an elaborate dwelling?
These are typical questions that Bernd Heinrich pursues in the engaging style we've come to expect from ...
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