Pluck: How the New Science of Female Birds Is Upending the Avian World

From the New York Times bestselling author of What an Owl Knows, The Genius of Birds, and The Bird Way, the first, groundbreaking investigation about how female birds live

Recent studies about female birds upend everything we thought we knew about birds. Until now, research focused almost exclusively on the male half of the class. But female Northern Cardinals learn their songs three times faster. Female House Wrens can be even more aggressive. Female birds in general also often have entirel...