Helpers at Birds' Nests: A Worldwide Survey of Cooperative Breeding and Related Behavior

by Alexander F. Skutch

Book Overview

In Helpers at Birds' Nests, renowned naturalist and ornithologist Alexander Skutch provides vivid, detailed accounts of a remarkable aspect of bird behavior -- the aid that one bird gives another who is neither its mate nor its dependent young and who may even belong to a different species. In graceful, clear prose, Skutch makes accessible to amateur bird-watchers examples of cooperation in species as far-flung as the little rifleman of New Zealand,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877451508
• ISBN13: 9780877451501
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.