Full Product Details
Author: Laura Erickson
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC
Dimensions:
Width: 18.00cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 20.40cm
Weight: 0.460kg
ISBN: 9781635862751
ISBN 10: 1635862752
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 27 October 2020
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
With expert knowledge and irresistible prose, Laura Erickson has a unique ability to make the lives of birds exciting and compelling for every reader. This book is a delight -- warm, wonderful, and brimming with insights and surprises. Highly recommended! -- Kenn Kaufman, naturalist, conservationist, author of Kingbird Highway, and editor of the Kaufman Field Guides What a delightful book! If you love birds, you will love these musings on the secrets of bird love. Who knew that crows had such tender and discreet displays of affection? Or that the courtship of limpkins was so snail-centered? Or that chickadees inhabit a Jane Austen-like world of courter and courted? Erickson unveils this captivating news in prose so lively, witty, and clever it charms from cover to cover. -- Jennifer Ackerman, New York Times best-selling author of The Genius of Birds andThe Bird Way An entertaining and lighthearted look at various bird species' mating habits... Terrific color illustrations by Veronica Lilja add to the fun. Bird enthusiasts and nature lovers in general shouldn't miss this. -- Publisher's Weekly
""With expert knowledge and irresistible prose, Laura Erickson has a unique ability to make the lives of birds exciting and compelling for every reader. This book is a delight -- warm, wonderful, and brimming with insights and surprises. Highly recommended!"" -- Kenn Kaufman, naturalist, conservationist, author of Kingbird Highway, and editor of the Kaufman Field Guides ""What a delightful book! If you love birds, you will love these musings on the secrets of bird love. Who knew that crows had such tender and discreet displays of affection? Or that the courtship of limpkins was so snail-centered? Or that chickadees inhabit a Jane Austen-like world of courter and courted? Erickson unveils this captivating news in prose so lively, witty, and clever it charms from cover to cover."" -- Jennifer Ackerman, New York Times best-selling author of The Genius of Birds andThe Bird Way ""An entertaining and lighthearted look at various bird species' mating habits... Terrific color illustrations by Veronica Lilja add to the fun. Bird enthusiasts and nature lovers in general shouldn't miss this."" -- Publisher's Weekly
Author Information
Laura Erickson is the author of The Love Lives of Birds and The Bird Watching Answer Book, and is coauthor of Into the Nest. A recipient of the American Birding Association s prestigious Roger Tory Peterson award, she has served as science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, an editor of Bird Scope magazine, and a columnist and contributing editor for Birdwatching magazine. She produces For the Birds, a long-running public radio program and podcast, and lives in Duluth, Minnesota.
