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How Birds Live Together

Colonies and Communities in the Avian World

Marianne Taylor

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A beautifully illustrated exploration of the ways birds cohabit

Featuring dramatic and delightful wild bird colonies and communities, How Birds Live Together offers a broad overview of social living in the avian world. From long-established seabird colonies that use the same cliffs for generations to the fast-shifting dynamics of flock formation, leading wildlife writer Marianne Taylor explores the different ways birds choose to dwell together.

Through fascinating text, color photos, maps, and other graphics, Taylor examines the advantages of avian sociality and social breeding. Chapters provide detailed information on diverse types of bird colonies, including those species that construct single-family nests close together in trees; those that share large, communal nests housing multiple families; those that nest in tunnels dug into the earth; those that form exposed colonies on open ground and defend them collectively, relying on ferocious aggression; those that live communally on human-made structures in towns and cities; and more. Taylor discusses the challenges, benefits, hazards, and social dynamics of each style of living, and features a wealth of species as examples.

Showcasing colonies from the edge of Scotland and the tropical delta of the Everglades to the Namib Desert in Africa, How Birds Live Together gives bird enthusiasts a vivid understanding of avian social communities.

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Monk parakeet, Diving bird, Eurasian oystercatcher, Fieldfare, Breeding pair, House sparrow, Rodent, Black-headed gull, Mediterranean gull, Bird nest, Passenger pigeon, Squacco heron, Flocking (behavior), Zebra finch, Eurasian tree sparrow, Grey heron, Waterfowl, Bird strike, Pigeon guillemot, Insect, White stork, Hawaiian crow, Barn owl, Social group, Bird of prey, Cooperative breeding, Bee-eater, Sociality, Cattle egret, Sociable weaver, Mayfly, Oilbird, Pair bond, Plumage, Spot-winged falconet, Red-footed falcon, Eastern bluebird, Auk, Bird, Red-winged blackbird, Common starling, Seabird, Laysan albatross, Mammal, Homing pigeon, Anser (bird), Falcon Nest, Pygmy falcon, Northern gannet, White tern, Rosy-faced lovebird, Magpie goose, Common cuckoo, Edible-nest swiftlet, Carrion crow, Feral pigeon, Tree swallow, Wildlife, Manx shearwater, Wood stork, Nest box, Snowy owl, Birdwatching, Bird migration, Senegal parrot, Edible bird's nest, Peregrine falcon, Burrowing owl, Bird colony, Parakeet