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

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, the Laysan albatross in the mid Pacific, and the neotropical birds of Skutch's own Valley of El General in Costa Rica.Skutch, Alexander Frank is the author of 'Helpers at Birds' Nests : A Worldwide Survey of Cooperative Breeding and Related Behavior' with ISBN 9780783716275 and ISBN 0783716273.