Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</br></br>Product Description</br></br><DIV><B>The acclaimed scientist's?encounters with?individual wild birds yielding marvelous mind-altering (<I>Los Angeles Times</I>)?insights and discoveries</B><BR /><BR /> In his modern classics <I>One Mans Owl </I>and <I>Mind of the Raven</I> Bernd Heinrich has written memorably about his?relationships with wild ravens and a great horned owl.?<DIV>??<DIV>In <I>One Wild Bird at a Time</I> Heinrich returns to his great love: close day-to-day observations of <I>individual</I> 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.?Heinrichs passionate observations [that] superbly mix memoir and science (<I>New York Times Book Review</I>)?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 Heinrichs 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??<DIV>??<DIV>Heinrich ??looks closely?? with his trademark ??hands-and-knees science?? at its most engaging?? [delivering] what can only be called psychological marvels of knowing?? (<I>Boston Globe</I>).?<DIV>??<DIV>An eminent biologist shares the joys of bird-watching and how observing the anomalous behaviors of individual birds has guided his research.<BR /> ?<BR /> Heinrich (Emeritus?? Biology/Univ. of Vermont; The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migra