1.0ACC Art Books UShttps://www.accartbooks.com/usACC Art Books UShttps://www.accartbooks.com/usrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="Gqn3PUYQ9l"><a href="https://www.accartbooks.com/us/book/the-life-of-the-robin/">The Life of the Robin</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.accartbooks.com/us/book/the-life-of-the-robin/embed/#?secret=Gqn3PUYQ9l" width="600" height="338" title="“The Life of the Robin” — ACC Art Books US" data-secret="Gqn3PUYQ9l" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://www.accartbooks.com/us/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script> https://www.accartbooks.com/app/uploads/books/9781843681304-04-1-600x888.jpg600888A new edition of the original biography of the robin, Britain’s favorite bird, full of surprises and wit and with added postscript on recent ornithological advances.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