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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 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
\nPreface 1
\nPreface to fourth edition 4
\nNote to this edition 7
\n1 My Robins 9
\n2 Song 23
\n3 The Red Breast 36
\n4 Fighting 47
\n5 The formation of pairs 59
\n6 Courtship 71
\n7 Nest, eggs, and young 81
\n8 Migration 103
\n9 Age 119
\n10 Food, feeding, and being fed upon 131
\n11 The significance of territory 142
\n12 Adventures with a stuffed robin 158
\n13 Recognition 170
\n14 Tameness 181
\n15 A digression upon instinct 191
\n16 Forest robins 202
\nEpilogue 220
\nPostscript 1: in David lack’s footsteps,
\nby David Harper 223
\nPostscript 2: The life of ‘the life of the robin’,
\nby Peter Lack 235
\nReferences and notes 249
\nIndex 277<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21581],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39285","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-natural-world","7":"author-afterword-by-peter-lack","8":"author-afterword-by-robert-gillmor","9":"author-by-author-david-lack","10":"author-introduction-by-david-lindo","11":"publisher-pallas-athene","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n