One Wild Bird at a Time Portraits of Individual Lives (Audible Audio Edition) Bernd Heinrich Rick Adamson LLC Dreamscape Media Books
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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 20 feet above the ground and lands on the grass below. It can't fly. What will happen next?
One Wild Bird at a Time Portraits of Individual Lives (Audible Audio Edition) Bernd Heinrich Rick Adamson LLC Dreamscape Media Books
“The Homing Instinct” and “The Nesting Season”, recent books from Dr. Bernd Heinrich, consider certain birds as they migrate and reproduce, and this book is about the scrapes, field nesting observation (in which excrement pellets play a large part), and challenges that buy birds their homes, through incredible labor and ingenuity. When reading Heinrich’s notes from his world—a preserve in the Maine woodlands, I know I am going home to nature. One by one, the populations of each study bird species, from woodcocks to flickers and chickadees, are given in summary form along with data on their nesting biology and behavior. Sometimes the birds have surprising performances, such as gentle cooings intended to be shared only with their mate, or by following a lone human in the woods, then taking food from them. Food, glorious food! Make a birdfeeder available in the woods, and presto, you can watch the persistence in owls waiting to spot shrews that emerge from the snow to eat a few fallen seeds. Mated bird couples return from southern lands to find the same nest and feeder as the previous year, or begin their search for something as good. We can marvel over the sagacity of birds which avoid being frozen in their burrows when wet snow freezes, but nonetheless burrow in the insulating snow to escape the death that awaits them in subfreezing ambient temperature. Without the engaging sketches drawn by Heinrich, and those offered in prose that is always to the point, we would miss the animal drama and see only woodland in the spring, summer, winter or fall. What goes on in those times, and in this northern habitat, includes truly unforgettable vignettes of the avian fauna that Heinrich knows and loves. Read and enjoy— a special gift went into showing you the world, one wild species at a time.Product details
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One Wild Bird at a Time Portraits of Individual Lives (Audible Audio Edition) Bernd Heinrich Rick Adamson LLC Dreamscape Media Books Reviews
I am a big fan of Bernd Heinrich's nature writing. This one is good, but not among his best. It is essentially stories drawn from his birdwatching diaries, and while enjoyable, I don't think I learned as much from this book as I did from his excellent works like The Trees in My Forest and Why We Run.
What a book! Heinrich once again writes a book that will resonate with all nature lovers. He definitely speaks my language, that common language only known to those who truly see nature and her bounty! This book is broken down into sections each dedicated to a particular timeline of interaction between the author and a bird species. I both laughed and cried in the first chapter. I'm guessing everyone else did too. You'll find yourself attached to the birds Mr Heinrich has had in his life. If this is your first book by this author, I can guarantee it won't be your last.
One wild bird at a time. Portraits of individual lives.
Only Bernd Heinrich could write such wonderful portraits of wild birds as snap shots, not missing any of the wonders of nature. He feels that he did a good job of the subject. He still doesn’t’ know that he wrote an additional portrait of the life of another subject, himself. How could it be that he kept his childhood’s eyes for nature’s wonder and made it his profession. Six decades later he is still chasing the same wild birds he did as a child. I never had a teacher with the passion an curiosity of a child. Now we all do. One Wild Bird at a Time is that teacher that could awaken in all of us that child we have all lost in the way to now. You all probably did not notice thi important lesson of this wonder bok on nature “I watched and learned, with no theory to prove. And now, sixty years later, I‘m still learning by being an audience to a woodcock, and so can anyone learn by watching a starling, a sapsucker, a flicker, or a house sparrow”
This book was a delight. For numerous reasons, as I'll explain. First, it's not a bird guide ala Sibley or Peterson. And it has none of the (probably necessary) savagery of Audubon's early research methods. It' simply about the lives of common birds, yard birds. Not ones that people travel to other continents to add to their list. Nope, these could be seen out the kitchen window.
My first attraction to it was out of curiosity, as my favorite memoir of all time is called "Bird by Bird" by Anne Lamott. That's what caught my eye, and it took only seconds to find out that was not even close. Rather, Bernd tells a different life story. Equally fascinating and full of complex theory and some belly laughs.
So, I live out in the sticks and birds are a big part of what we've created for our home area on a few acres. We have hummingbirds with names (Zip and Harley), and we've also named the red-tail hawks that breed across the valley (Spark, Cinder, and Shorty). The reason is, we've wanted to cultivate a love for nature for our sons. Our eight-year-old is now at that age of curiousity and feelings, and so he's interested in justice and safety even for the birds. When I couldn't save a baby hummingbird we found on the ground, he was devastated. (I simply had no idea what to do). But when we took a hawk to the Wildlife Center for a broken wing, he was delighted. So I want him to continue that love because other kids in his age group are discovering that charming habit of shooting at birds with BBs. I actually pulled over and yelled at some boys shooting at mourning doves. So part of Bernd's anthromorphic descriptions is to continue his interest and realize that birds do have a part in our world. Not just the raven on Youtube that skies on a lid, and not just the mockingbird in the yard that does the perfect car alarm.
Another reason is that I've read some ghastly nonfiction for work, necessary stuff, but heartbreaking. I work with troubled kids. And this is a prettty peaceful way to spend an evening when you've left work with your skin crawling.
Education, peacefulness, meditation.....given how much we've seen in the last few years of animal intelligence, I think they will be our next teachers.
“The Homing Instinct” and “The Nesting Season”, recent books from Dr. Bernd Heinrich, consider certain birds as they migrate and reproduce, and this book is about the scrapes, field nesting observation (in which excrement pellets play a large part), and challenges that buy birds their homes, through incredible labor and ingenuity. When reading Heinrich’s notes from his world—a preserve in the Maine woodlands, I know I am going home to nature. One by one, the populations of each study bird species, from woodcocks to flickers and chickadees, are given in summary form along with data on their nesting biology and behavior. Sometimes the birds have surprising performances, such as gentle cooings intended to be shared only with their mate, or by following a lone human in the woods, then taking food from them. Food, glorious food! Make a birdfeeder available in the woods, and presto, you can watch the persistence in owls waiting to spot shrews that emerge from the snow to eat a few fallen seeds. Mated bird couples return from southern lands to find the same nest and feeder as the previous year, or begin their search for something as good. We can marvel over the sagacity of birds which avoid being frozen in their burrows when wet snow freezes, but nonetheless burrow in the insulating snow to escape the death that awaits them in subfreezing ambient temperature. Without the engaging sketches drawn by Heinrich, and those offered in prose that is always to the point, we would miss the animal drama and see only woodland in the spring, summer, winter or fall. What goes on in those times, and in this northern habitat, includes truly unforgettable vignettes of the avian fauna that Heinrich knows and loves. Read and enjoy— a special gift went into showing you the world, one wild species at a time.
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