Unique encounters with wild birds from the acclaimed scientist and “adedicated watcher happy to knock down the fourth wall of zoology” (The Wall Street Journal).In his modern classicsOne Man’s OwlandMind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably about his relationships with wild ravens and a great horned owl.InOne Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds.There are countless books on bird behavior, but Heinrich argues that some of the most amazing bird behaviors fall below the radar of what most birds do in aggregate.Heinrich’s “passionate observations [that] superbly mix memoir and science” lead to fascinating questions—and sometimes startling discoveries (The New York Times Book Review).A great crested flycatcher, while bringing food to the young in their nest, is attacked by the other flycatcher nearby.Why?A pair of Northern flickers hammering their nest-hole into the side of Heinrich’s cabin deliver the opportunity to observe the feeding competition between siblings, and to make a related discovery about nest-cleaning.One of a clutch ofredstart warbler babies fledgesout of the nest from twenty feet above the ground, and lands on the grass below.It can’t fly.What will happen next?Heinrich “looks closely, with his trademark ‘hands-and-knees science’ at its most engaging, [delivering] what can only be called psychological marvels of knowing” (The Boston Globe).“An engaging memoir of the opportunities for doing scientific research without leaving one’s own backyard.”—Kirkus Reviews