Bird Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bird Love write by Wenfei Tong. This book was released on 2020-03-03. Bird Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bird Love explores the diverse range of family relationships in birds around the world in fascinating detail.
Bird Love
Bird Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bird Love write by Wenfei Tong. This book was released on 2020-03-24. Bird Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
"To Bird with Love"
"To Bird with Love" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "To Bird with Love" write by Chan Parker. This book was released on 1981. "To Bird with Love" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Waa'aka'
Waa'aka' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Waa'aka' write by Cindi Alvitre. This book was released on 2020. Waa'aka' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A Tongva creation story of Catalina Island and how the black-crowned night heron came to be"--
Love Is a Rebellious Bird
Love Is a Rebellious Bird - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love Is a Rebellious Bird write by Elayne Klasson. This book was released on 2019-11-12. Love Is a Rebellious Bird available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who is it we love and why do we love these people? Toward the end of her life, Judith asks these questions, trying to understand why she chose Elliot Pine to love. Why, for sixty years, did she persist in loving someone who never gave as much as he was given? In her quest for understanding, she writes her story to this exceptional man. Meeting as children in Chicago, they move to opposite coasts. Elliot embarks on a remarkable legal career in Washington and New York while Judith raises her children alone in California, after tragedy. Coming together again and again throughout their lives, their love is never equal, Elliot defining the terms of the relationship. Judith examines the role of Beauty in love, for Elliot's face and form were beautiful. She considers the role of Consolation, how they supported one another in devastating times. Insanity, Magic, Deceit, Sensory Fulfillment, and, finally, Being Seen—Judith looks at these many aspects of her love. Her feelings for this man cost her, impinged on every other relationship in her life: friends, her two husbands, even her three children. After sixty years, however, it all changes. Judith makes one more profound sacrifice, finally achieving a sort of long-awaited happiness in her love.
