Life of the Tanager

by Alexander F. Skutch

Alexander F. Skutch has spent more than 40 years studying Neotropical birds, mostly in southern Costa Rica, where he makes his home. In this charming book he observes the habits of the tanagers, a family of some 230 species of brightly colored, predominantly fruit-eating birds of the New World.Skutch describes many of the unusual things he has seen tanagers do, and details their behavior: how they forage and feed, vocalize, interact with one another,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801422264
• ISBN13: 9780801422263
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Comstock Publishing
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.3" x 12.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher