The Life of the Robin
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The Life of the Robin

The Life of the Robin


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The robin was hardly understood when David Lack - Britain's most influential ornithologist - started his scientific observations. This book is a landmark in natural history, not just for its discoveries, but because of the approachable style, sharpened with an acute wit. It reads as fascinatingly today as when it was written.

Table of Contents:
Introduction xiii Preface 1 Preface to fourth edition 4 Note to this edition 7 1 My Robins 9 2 Song 23 3 The Red Breast 36 4 Fighting 47 5 The formation of pairs 59 6 Courtship 71 7 Nest, eggs, and young 81 8 Migration 103 9 Age 119 10 Food, feeding, and being fed upon 131 11 The significance of territory 142 12 Adventures with a stuffed robin 158 13 Recognition 170 14 Tameness 181 15 A digression upon instinct 191 16 Forest robins 202 Epilogue 220 Postscript 1: in David lack’s footsteps, by David Harper 223 Postscript 2: The life of ‘the life of the robin’, by Peter Lack 235 References and notes 249 Index 277

About the Author :
David Lack, FRS (1910–1973) has been called Britain's most influential ornithologist. Amongst other achievements he developed what is now known as Lack's Principle which explained the evolution of avian clutch sizes in terms of individual selection as opposed to the competing contemporary idea that they had evolved for the benefit of species (also known as group selection); this has been considered a major development in Darwinian evolution His pioneering life-history studies of the living bird helped in changing the nature of ornithology from what was then a collection-oriented field. He was a longtime director of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology at the University of Oxford.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781843681304
  • Publisher: PALLAS ATHENE PUBLISHERS
  • Publisher Imprint: Pallas Athene Publishers
  • Height: 190 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Width: 125 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1843681307
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 358 gr


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