In these tales about birds, birding, and birders, Dunne has captured many of the feelings that make birding special.... Almost any ornithologist or naturalist would enjoy this book.

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Tales of a Low-Rent Birder is a collection of nineteen essays and sketches written between 1977 and 1985. It was originally published in 1986.
Nineteen essays about birds and birding.
Foreword by Roger Tory PetersonPrefacePreface to the Second EditionBilly Leeds and the EagleOverflightA Tale of Two HawkwatchersPulling StringsBookcase BluebillFirst-Year BirdThe Legend of Jesse MewBirdathon '83—A Saab StoryA Lifer for RogerSVATA Peregrine Going South for the First Time AgainScotch Bonnet BlindA Gift of VisionA Confederate Hawkwatcher from AK-625Shearwater SundayDeath of a SeasonSitkagi SpringMacadam EncounterThoughts While Waiting for an Ice Falcon
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In these tales about birds, birding, and birders, Dunne has captured many of the feelings that make birding special.... Almost any ornithologist or naturalist would enjoy this book.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780292715745
Publisert
1994-06-01
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Texas Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
01, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
173

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Pete Dunne is director of natural history information for the New Jersey Audubon Society's Cape May Bird Observatory in Cape May Point, New Jersey. A widely published writer on birding, he is also author of The Feather Quest: A North American Birder's Year and Hawks in Flight.