Blackhearts : ecology in outback Australia / Richard Symanski.

This fascinating book is a firsthand account of the adventures of an ornithological field team studying long-tailed finches in outback Australia. In 1991, Nancy Burley, a noted behavioral ecologist, and her husband, Richard Symanski, went to Australia with their one-year-old son and four American st...

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Main Author: Symanski, Richard
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Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2000.
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505 0 |a Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Map -- Introduction -- 1 Choosing Family -- 2 The Search for Breeding Redbeaks -- 3 Mysterious Behavior -- 4 The Gulf Widens -- 5 Business as Usual -- 6 Illinois Aftermath -- Postscript -- References -- Index 
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