One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)

from picardyrose

Excellent reading for the end of the day. You can forget all about the world and concentrate on birds you otherwise would know nothing about. Very restful.

from meandmybooks

Three and a half stars. Some chapters were better than others, but on the whole I enjoyed Heinrich's tales of his bird studies. Each chapter focuses on a particular sort of bird and on a certain aspect of that bird's behavior. There is a lot about nesting and raising babies, flock behavior, feedi...

from msf59

This one was such a perfect fit for me, in my fledgling "birding" life and I was lucky to find it as an Audible Daily Deal. Each of these chapters, most take place at the author's remote Maine cabin, are portrait's of a particular bird or a group of birds. The first one involves a family of north...

from Dabble58

I have to admit I hated this book and tossed it into my “not wanted on voyage” pile. I couldn't finish it. The author captures wild birds and keeps them inside to “study” them, he disturbs their nests, he is so intrusive it made me quite ill. The worst kind of nature writing, matched only by the ...

from sraelling

I found the chapter about the crows to be the most interesting. Who knew that crows could be (have been) pets?