Tales of a Low-Rent Birder
Autor Pete Dunne Ilustrat de David Sibley Introducere de Roger Tory Petersonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 1994
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292715745
ISBN-10: 0292715749
Pagini: 173
Ilustrații: 23 Ld
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Univ of Texas P
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 0292715749
Pagini: 173
Ilustrații: 23 Ld
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Univ of Texas P
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
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.
Cuprins
- Foreword by Roger Tory Peterson
- Preface
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Billy Leeds and the Eagle
- Overflight
- A Tale of Two Hawkwatchers
- Pulling Strings
- Bookcase Bluebill
- First-Year Bird
- The Legend of Jesse Mew
- Birdathon '83—A Saab Story
- A Lifer for Roger
- SVAT
- A Peregrine Going South for the First Time Again
- Scotch Bonnet Blind
- A Gift of Vision
- A Confederate Hawkwatcher from AK-625
- Shearwater Sunday
- Death of a Season
- Sitkagi Spring
- Macadam Encounter
- Thoughts While Waiting for an Ice Falcon
Recenzii
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.
Descriere
Nineteen essays about birds and birding.