Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds by Tong, Wenfei
Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds by Tong, Wenfei

Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds

A stunningly illustrated look at the mating and parenting lives of the world's birds Bird Love looks...
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Author: Wenfei Tong
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Language: English
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Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds by Tong, Wenfei

Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds

$67.83
Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds by Tong, Wenfei

Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds

$67.83
Author: Wenfei Tong
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A stunningly illustrated look at the mating and parenting lives of the world's birds

Bird Love looks at the extraordinary range of mating systems in the avian world, exploring all the stages from courtship and nest-building to protecting eggs and raising chicks. It delves into the reasons why some species, such as the wattled jacana, rely on males to do all the childcare, while others, such as cuckoos and honeyguides, dump their eggs in the nests of others to raise. For some birds, reciprocal promiscuity pays off: both male and female dunnocks will rear the most chicks by mating with as many partners as possible. For others, long-term monogamy is the only way to ensure their offspring survive.

The book explores the wide variety of ways birds make sure they find a mate in the first place, including how many male birds employ elaborate tactics to show how sexy they are. Gathering in leks to display to females, they dance, pose, or parade to sell their suitability as a mate. Other birds attract a partner with their building skills: female bowerbirds rate brains above beauty, so males construct elaborate bowers with twig avenues and cleared courtyards to impress them.

Looking at the differing levels of parenting skills across species around the world, we see why a tenth of bird species, including the fairy-wrens of Australia, have helpers at the nest who forgo their own reproduction to assist the breeding pair; how brood parasites and their hosts have engaged in evolutionary arms races; and how monogamous pairs share--or relinquish--their responsibilities.

Illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs, Bird Love is a celebration of the global diversity of avian reproductive strategies.

Author: Wenfei Tong
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 03/24/2020
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 10.10h x 8.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780691188843

About the Author
Wenfei Tong is a research associate in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Mike Webster is the Robert G. Engel Professor of Ornithology in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University and director of the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
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