The Life of the Robin

Lack, David/ Lack, Peter (AFT)/ Gillmor, Robert (AFT)

Pallas Athene Publishers（2016/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781843681304
• DDC分類 598.842

Full Description

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.

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