Birds Asleep

Near fine hardcover in very good dust jacket (corners worn). First edition.

Seeing (or more likely hearing) a large flock of birds settling in for the night is a fairly common experience, even for city dwellers who might otherwise pay little attention to birds. Yet, even among avid birdwatchers and scientists, the knowledge of how and where birds sleep is scanty. In Birds Asleep, Alexander Skutch draws on his own observations, as well as the reports of other birders, to offer the first comprehensive survey of the sleeping habits of the world's birds.

A longtime resident of Costa Rica, Alexander Skutch was a widely respected writer, ornithologist, and philosopher of natural history. This is Number 14 in the Corrie Herring Hooks series from University of Texas Press.