City Birding: True Tales of Birds and Birdwatching in Unexpected Places
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (722 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0811700275 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In this unique book, some of the country's best-known birders observe birds in places where thriving bird life comes as a surprise. Garland, Paul Kerlinger, Julie Zickefoose, Lawrence Kilham, Curtis Badger, Nikki Weinstein, James Gorman, Michael Harwood, Mary DurantThe waterways of New York-New Jersey, the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel-Bridge, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the French Quarter of New Orleans--all unlikely spots for birdwatching. Funny, informative, and thought-provoking, the true stories collected here demonstrate the amazing adaptability of birds, which sometimes seem to thrive in almost any setting humans create: city parks, busy marinas, cemeteries, sewage lagoons. Toups, Mark S. Stories by: Kenn Kaufman, Clay Sutton, Marie Winn, Ann Zwinger, Paul A. They also illustrate the vulnerability of the natural world in an increasingly man-made environment, and show how the excitement of birdwatching can exist in the most unexpected places.. For the careful observer, however, these urban locations and others like them can be settings for memorable birding experiences. Johnsgard, Kim Todd, John Nichols, Judith A
. Other birding sites appear in Ken Kaufman's zen-sublime "Parking Lot Birds" (South Bend, Ind.) and in Judith Toups's "Take Me to Your Sewage Lagoon," an account of birding around a settling pond near Hattiesburg, Miss., that yielded a rare Yellow Wagtail and 28 species of warblers in one day. The quality of the writing (much of which has been previously published) is uneven, but the enthusiasm for "found birding" never wavers, and there is some first-rate natural history reporting, like Kim Todd's "Starling." Some pieces are so slight that even when taken together they are too thin for a serious natur
Anyone Who Enjoys Birds Will Like This Book This is definitely an easy reader--the perfect format for travel or right before bed. Each short chapter tells a different true bird tale, often located in pretty unique settings. Some stories are better than others, but most provoke thought, humor or surprising-to-learn information. I especially enjoyed Kenn Kaufman's, "Parallel Worlds" where he describes the brief moment four different worlds (a hawk, cat, hummer and human) intersect. Another enjoyable read was Curtis Badger's "Birding On The Bridge" where