Laura Erickson is the author of The Love Lives of Birds and The Bird Watching Answer Book, and is coauthor of Into the Nest. A recipient of the American Birding Association's prestigious Roger Tory Peterson award, she has served as science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, an editor of Bird Scope magazine, and a columnist and contributing editor for Birdwatching magazine. She produces For the Birds, a long-running public radio program and podcast, and lives in Duluth, Minnesota.

Introduction: Looking for Mr. or Ms. Right
Sex in the City: Rock Pigeon
Speed Dating: Prairie Grouse
Living in Jane Austen's World: Black-Capped Chickadee
Bully for Them: Wild Turkey
Be My Valentine: Great Horned Owl
Tender Romantics: American Crow
Just the Two of Us: Trumpeter Swan
Going Steady: Mallard
Romantic Duets: Northern Cardinal
Old-Fashioned Love Songs: American Robin
Othello Didn't Have to End That Way: Northern Mockingbird
Singing Casanova: House Wren
Happy Feet: Blue-Footed Booby
Dancing with the Stars: Whooping Crane
Cyrano de Bergerac: American Woodcock
Love on the Beach: Piping Plover
Passion in Fresh Water: Common Loon
Going the Distance: Arctic Tern
The Food of Love: Limpkin
You're Not Getting Older, You're Getting Better: Eastern Screech-Owl
When I'm Sixty-Four: Laysan Albatross
Rosie the Riveter: Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
Wearing the Pants: Wilson's Phalarope
Are You My Mother?: Brown-Headed Cowbird
The Bold and the Beautiful: Eastern Bluebird
One Big Happy Family: Red-Winged Blackbird
Group Hug!: Belted Kingfisher
The Inconstant Moon: Red Knot
Across a Crowded Room: Herring Gull
Say It with Sticks: Great Blue Heron
Rocks Are a Hen's Best Friend: Adelie Penguin
Material Girl and Boy: Satin Bowerbird
This Old House: Bald Eagle
Failure to Launch: Florida Scrub-Jay
Romantic Comedy: White-Throated Sparrow
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