Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds

✍ Scribed by Lyanda Haupt

• Publisher: Sasquatch Books
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 193
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds is a collection of seventeen thoughtful essays on birds capture the sense of wonder and connection people have for these marvelous creatures. 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 cont.  Read more...

Abstract: Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds is a collection of seventeen thoughtful essays on birds capture the sense of wonder and connection people have for these marvelous creatures. 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 cont

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 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
Acknowledgments
Author Biography.

✦ Subjects

Nature;NATURE;Birdwatching Guides