Jack Gedney

The Private Lives of Public Birds

Learning to Listen to the Birds Where We Live
Illustrator: Park, Anna Kus

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Gedney shares his devotion to everyday Western birds in fifteen essays. Each essay illuminates the life of a single species and its relationship to humans, and how these species can help us understand birds in general"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Heyday Books
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 145mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781597145749
• ISBN-10: 1597145742
• Artikelnr.: 62229104

Autorenporträt

Jack Gedney was born in California, bounced around the country in his youth, and returned to his home state to complete his education, studying literature and natural history at U.C. Berkeley. He is also the author of a compact field guide to the trees of the San Francisco Bay Area and co-owner of a wild bird feeding and nature shop in Novato, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Preface Speakers 1. The Brown Bird (California Towhee) 2. The Garden
s Keeper (California Scrub-Jay) 3. I Can Hear When They Call (American Crow) 4. Waxwing Revelations (Cedar Waxwing) Singers 5. Dawn
s Watcher (American Robin) 6. The Blessed Halo (House Finch) 7. This Goldfinch is Not Lesser (Lesser Goldfinch) 8. Devotion
s Fruit (Mourning Dove) 9. The Dusky Demon (Northern Mockingbird) 10. Autumn Kings (Golden-crowned and White-crowned Sparrows) 11. In the Darkness She Will Listen (Great Horned Owl) Visions 12. Light of the Oasis (Hooded Oriole) 13. The Beautiful Purifier (Turkey Vulture) 14. The View From Above (Red-tailed Hawk) 15. A Little Miracle (Annäs Hummingbird) Tools for Learning the Birds Acknowledgments Notes About the Author