Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds
A Bird Book for Adults
Published on 1. March 2011
192 pages
978-1-57061-807-9 (ISBN)
Description
Naturalist Lyanda Lynn Haupt, an ornithology teacher and researcher, examines the amazing talents and personalities of the most common of birds. She muses on the tarnished reputation of the starling, the sexed-up antics of male woodpeckers, and the mysterious behavior and startling population explosion of crows in her hometown. Through the eye and voice of this talented writer, birds provide a fascinating point of contact with the natural world at large.
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Lyanda Lynn Haupt lives in Seattle.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- First Bird
- An Invasion of Owls
- The Presence of Birds: A Very New Life List
- The Thrush and the Faerie
- Cormorant Problem
- The Birdwatcher's Book of Secrets
- When Good Woodpeckers Go Bad
- The Pacific-slope Flycatcher: A New Species, Sort of
- The Hidden Blue Grouse
- The Secret Lives of Vaux's Swift
- Winter Wren: Thoughts on Voice and Place
- Sparrows as Mothers
- One-Eyed Dunlin
- Young Love: A Back-to-School Story
- Postcards from the Mayan Ruins
- Crow Stories
- Bird Vision
- Acknowledgements
- Author Biography
- Copyright Page
