Into the nest
Subtitle: intimate views of the courting, parenting, and family lives of familiar birds
By: Laura Erickson & Marie Read
Contributors: Read, Marie, 1950-
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781612122298
Subjects: Sexual behavior; Birds; Behavior; Familial behavior in animals
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The facts of bird life; title: Courting and mating; title: Nesting and parenting; title: The family lives of individual birds; title: Mallard; title: Great blue heron; title: Diurnal raptors : red-tailed hawk, bald eagle, turkey vulture, and peregrine falcon; title: Killdeer; title: Herring gull; title: Rock pigeon and mourning dove; title: Great horned owl; title: Ruby-throated, Anna's, and Rufous hummingbirds; title: Woodpeckers : downy and hairy woodpeckers, northern flicker; title: Phoebes; title: Jays and crow : Steller's jay, blue jay, western scrub-jay, and American crow; title: Tree swallow and barn swallow; title: Chickadees and nuthatches : Carolina and black-capped chickadees, tufted titmouse, and red-breasted and white-breasted nuthatches; title: House wren; title: Thrushes : bluebirds, american robin; title: Northern mockingbird; title: Cedar waxwing; title: Yellow warbler; title: Chipping, song, and white-crowned sparrows, dark-eyed junco; title: Summer, scarlet, and western tanagers; title: Northern cardinal; title: Blackbirds and orioles : red-winged, yellow-headed, and brewer's blackbirds, common grackle, Baltimore and Bullock's orioles, brown-headed cowbird; title: Finches : house finch, American goldfinch; title: Resources; title: Index.