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Title When birds are near : dispatches from contemporary writers / edited by Susan Fox Rogers
Published Ithaca : Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 286 pages)
Contents Nighthawks: Lake Perez / Katie Fallon -- Spotted Owls / Rob Nixon -- Birding in Traffic / Jonathan Rosen -- Buried Birds / Elizabeth Bradfield -- The Problem with Pretty Birds / Andrew Furman -- Red-headed Love Child / J. Drew Lanham -- Crane, Water, Change: A Migratory Essay / Christine Byl -- The Black and White / Sara Crosby -- One Single Hummingbird / Eli J. Knapp -- Assault on the French Canal Bridge / R. A. Behrstock -- Wild Swans / Alison Townsend -- The Snowy Winter / David Gessner -- Koan / Ursula Murray Husted -- This Is My Tribe / Thomas Bancroft -- In the Eyes of the Condor / Christina Baal -- Little Brown Birds / Richard Bohannon -- The Keepers of the Ghost Bird / Jenn Dean -- The Hour (or Two) before the Dawn / Donald Kroodsma -- Secret of Owls / K. Bannerman -- Guardian of the Garden / Renata Golden -- Chasing the Ghost of the Imperial Woodpecker / Tim Gallagher -- Extralimital / Alison Világ -- Death and the Rose-breasted Grosbeak / John R. Nelson -- Birding on Bleaker Island / Rachel Dickinson -- Nest Watcher / Susan Cerulean -- My Bird Problem / Jonathan Franzen
Summary "This book is a literary collection that explores and celebrates a life with birds"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 28, 2020)
Subject Birds -- Literary collections
Bird watching -- Literary collections
Essays.
essays.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Ornithology.
Bird watching
Birds
Essays
Genre/Form essays.
Essays
Literary collections
Essays.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
Author Rogers, Susan Fox, editor.
LC no. 2020004198
ISBN 9781501750922
1501750925
9781501750939
1501750933