The Nesting Season

Bernd Heinrich is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Vermont. He has written several memoirs of his life in science and nature, including One Man’s Owl, and Ravens in Winter. Bumblebee Economics was twice a nominee for the American Book Award in Science, and A Year in the Maine Woods won the 1995 Rutstrum Authors’ Award for Literary Excellence.

出版者:Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

作者:Bernd Heinrich

页数:404

出版时间:2010-05-15

价格:USD 29.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780674048775

图书标签:自然想买博物志BerndHeinrich2011

Why are the eggs of the marsh wren deep brown, the winter wren's nearly white, and the gray catbird's a brilliant blue? And what in the DNA of a penduline tit makes the male weave a domed nest of fibers and the female line it with feathers, while the bird-of-paradise male builds no nest at all, and his bower-bird counterpart constructs an elaborate dwelling?

These are typical questions that Bernd Heinrich pursues in the engaging style we've come to expect from him—supplemented here with his own stunning photographs and original watercolors. One of the world's great naturalists and nature writers, Heinrich shows us how the sensual beauty of birds can open our eyes to a hidden evolutionary process. Nesting, as Heinrich explores it here, encompasses what fascinates us most about birds—from their delightful songs and spectacular displays to their varied eggs and colorful plumage; from their sex roles and mating rituals to nest parasitism, infanticide, and predation.

What moves birds to mate and parent their young in so many different ways is what interests Heinrich—and his insights into the nesting behavior of birds has more than a little to say about our own.

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鸟类的婚姻家庭生活，以自然观察笔记和总结实验结果为主，但多次擦边诸如什么是爱什么是艺术这样的大问题，也可隐隐看到这位七十岁鸟类学家专注满足丰盛的一生。信息量大结构清晰文笔好。对我这样惧怕高深哲学的人来说，越来越觉得自然史是解答终极问题加自助励志解惑治愈的最佳读物

鸟类的婚姻家庭生活，以自然观察笔记和总结实验结果为主，但多次擦边诸如什么是爱什么是艺术这样的大问题，也可隐隐看到这位七十岁鸟类学家专注满足丰盛的一生。信息量大结构清晰文笔好。对我这样惧怕高深哲学的人来说，越来越觉得自然史是解答终极问题加自助励志解惑治愈的最佳读物

鸟类的婚姻家庭生活，以自然观察笔记和总结实验结果为主，但多次擦边诸如什么是爱什么是艺术这样的大问题，也可隐隐看到这位七十岁鸟类学家专注满足丰盛的一生。信息量大结构清晰文笔好。对我这样惧怕高深哲学的人来说，越来越觉得自然史是解答终极问题加自助励志解惑治愈的最佳读物