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Title details for One Wild Bird at a Time by Bernd Heinrich - Available

One Wild Bird at a Time

Portraits of Individual Lives

by Bernd Heinrich
Rick Adamson
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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?

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    May 17, 2016

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666599121
      • File size: 167536 KB
      • Duration: 05:49:01

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The clearing and woods around Bernd Heinrich's Maine cabin were his research center. As he studied, the author got to know birds as individuals. He could recognize the twang of a particular blue jay, for example. Narrator Rick Adamson brings a clear, interested voice to stories of starlings grooming themselves or woodcocks standing up to predators. He reads with a sense of innocent wonder. That's maintained even as the author proves to be an expert who does bird autopsies and collects grouse scat. The audiobook covers all aspects of bird life. The author's story of following sapsuckers through the woods may bring a smile, but the slow attrition of an egg brood in harsh conditions makes for a sad puzzle. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine

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