Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds by Wenfei Tong
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Overview: Exploring the sex life of birds and their wide range of mating and parenting habits, Bird Love gives you a detailed insight into bird family life.
Discover the amazing array of courtship techniques employed by birds around the world, such as ospreys bringing gifts of food in exchange for sex, male skylarks performing aerial acrobatics to impress females, or long-tailed widowbirds showing off their tails to advertise the quality of their genes.
Finding a prime nesting location is paramount, and the skills to build a safe nest in which to raise young can be just as attractive as having extravagant plumage. Security matters too – even to the extent of female hornbills who seal themselves in to their tree hollow nests, relying on their mates to deliver food through a narrow slit.
But it’s not all about males seeking to impress or dominate females: sex roles can be reversed, and the book includes examples such as the black coucal, whose females leave the males to perform all childcare duties. The limited availability of nest holes for the eclectus parrots of Melanesia means that females fight each other to secure a home, and the winner may have up to seven mates.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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