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The acclaimed scientist's encounters with individual wild birds, yielding &;marvelous, mind-altering&; (Los Angeles Times) insights and discoveries

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&; (New York Times Book Review) lead to fascinating questions &; and sometimes startling discoveries. 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&; (Boston Globe).
 
An eminent biologist shares the joys of bird-watching and how observing the anomalous behaviors of individual birds has guided his research.
 
Heinrich (Emeritus, Biology/Univ. of Vermont; The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration, 2014, etc.) smoothly describes how studying the daily lives of birds in their natural environments allows him to experience their world vicariously. Now retired and living in a cabin in the Maine woods, he devotes himself to closely observing &;his avian neighbors, visitors, and vagrants, and keep[ing] daily records throughout spring, summer, fall, and winter.&; Every year, he welcomes a pair of broad-wing hawks who feast at a vernal pond populated by frogs, spring peepers, and salamanders while refurbishing their old nest. Unusually, they provide a fern cover on the nest, which they update on a daily basis after their chicks hatch. Heinrich also includes anecdotes from an earlier time when he still lived in Vermont. Awakened one morning by the loud drumming of a male woodpecker on a nearby apple tree, the author wondered if perhaps he was seeking to attract a female. Surprisingly, when a female was drawn to the sound, he stopped drumming and flew away. The same behavior was repeated the following day. The author&;s observations led him to conclude that the bird's drumming was not part of a mating ritual but rather a noisy advertisement of his nest-building skills. Vireos nesting near his cabin allowed him to observe how they deliberately reduced the number of eggs they were hatching to accommodate the reduced food supply after an unseasonal freeze. Heinrich explains that bird-watching has been an important part of his life since he was a boy on his family's farm. When he was 6, they moved from Germany to Maine. Finding familiar birds nesting &;immediately made this place our home,&; he writes.
 
An engaging memoir of the opportunities for doing scientific research without leaving one's own backyard. (Kirkus)

 

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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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Praise for The Homing Instinct

Its appeal is multilayered, with many fascinating instances of Heinrichs fabled fieldwork and plenty of hard science. Add to that those moments where the writing nearly attains the lyric poignancy of poetry.Library Journal

Praise for Life Everlasting

Bernd Heinrich is one of the finest naturalists of our time. Life Everlasting shines with the authenticity and originality that are unique to a life dedicated to natural history in the fieldEdward O. Wilson, author of The Future of Life and The Social Conquest of Earth

Praise for Bernd Heinrich

He richly deserves the comparison to Thoreau.Washington Post Book World

Passionate observations [that] superbly mix memoir and science.New York Times Book Review

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The acclaimed scientists encounters with individual wild birds, yielding marvelous, mind-altering (Los Angeles Times) insights and discoveries.

In his modern classic One Mans 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-by-day observations of individual wild birds. There are countless books on bird behavior, but, writes Heinrich, some of the most amazing bird behaviors fall below the radar of what most birds do in aggregate. Heinrichs passionate observations [that] superbly mix memoir and science (New York Times) lead to fascinating questionsand sometimes startling discoveries. A great crested flycatcher bringing food to its young acts surreptitiously and is attacked by its mate. Why? A pair of northern flickers hammering their nesthole into the sides of Heinrichs cabin offer 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 cant 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 (Boston Globe).

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