Description

Book Synopsis
Nineteen essays about birds and birding.

Trade Review
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. * Auk *

Table of Contents
  • 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

Tales of a LowRent Birder

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    A Paperback / softback by Pete Dunne, David Sibley, Roger Tory Peterson

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/1994
      ISBN13: 9780292715745, 978-0292715745
      ISBN10: 0292715749

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Nineteen essays about birds and birding.

      Trade Review
      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. * Auk *

      Table of Contents
      • 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

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