Tales of a Low-Rent Birder by Pete Dunne
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.
Tales of a Low-Rent Birder
Summary
Nineteen essays about birds and birding.
Tales of a Low-Rent Birder Summary
Tales of a Low-Rent Birder Reviews
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 *
About Pete Dunne
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.
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
Additional information
GOR004723329
9780292715745
0292715749
Tales of a Low-Rent Birder by Pete Dunne
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of Texas Press
19940601
173
N/A
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