Blackhearts: Ecology in Outback Australia

by Richard Symanski

This fascinating book is a firsthand account of the adventures of an ornithological field team studying long-tailed finches in outback Australia. In 1991, Nancy Burley, a noted behavioral ecologist, and her husband, Richard Symanski, went to Australia with their one-year-old son and four American students hired as field assistants and babysitter. The social relationships and problems that developed among these individuals in confined and exotic settings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300078196
• ISBN13: 9780300078190
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"