Chris Petrak has been entertaining and informing readers in a weekly column on birds and birding for over ten years. "Tails of Birding" gathers fifty-two engaging essays from this popular Vermont columnist. The essays interweave the experiences of watching birds and the adventures of finding birds with their life histories - their biology, environment, survival challenges, and folk history. The essays are variously informative, entertaining, narrative, poignant, humorous, poetic, and reflective.