Dr. Niko Tinbergen was well known as a naturalist and a student of
animal behaviour in England, on the Continent and in the United
States. Ever since he was a young student in Holland he had been
curious about nature, and in this book he sets out some of the
facts that 25 years of curiosity gave him. As a biologist, anything
living was his province-the bee-killing wasps and the digger wasps
of the Dutch sand dunes; the Snow Bruntings and Phalaropes of
Greenland; Hobbies and other hawks; moths and butterflies in
various parts of England and Holland; Black-headed Gulls of the
Ravenglass nature reserve, Cumberland, the Kittiwakes and Eider
Ducks of the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland. Readers
cannot fail to be struck-and possibly sometimes amused-by the
patience and ingenuity shown in the field studies undertaken by Dr.
Tinbergen and his fellow naturalists-and which are now passed on
for the benefit and interest of his readers. The studies were
always undertaken seriously, but this did not prevent Dr. Tinbergen
from writing about them in the liveliest way; he realised that
quite often he and his friends must have seemed to onlookers to be
very curious naturalists indeed.
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