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The great house of birds : classic writings about birds / edited by John Hay.

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Humans have always felt a particular fascination and affinity for birds. With this anthology of notable writings on bird fact and lore, celebrated naturalist John Hay pays eloquent homage to these winged creatures who "come out of a great past to tell us where we are." Here is Alexander Sk...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Hay, John, 1915-2011
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, ©1996.
Subjects:
Birds.
Birds > Literary collections.
Literary collections.
Table of Contents:
  • The terns / Mary Oliver
  • Skyey thoughts / Mary Austin
  • The windhover / Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • The peregrine / J.A. Baker
  • The humming bird in colonial America / Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
  • The flight of the hummingbird / Alexander F. Skutch
  • Vision and flight / Charlton Ogburn
  • Flight and vision / J.A. Baker
  • The hunting osprey / Alan F. Poole
  • Wideawake fair / Robert Cushman Murphy
  • Playing with the wind / Konrad Lorenz
  • The wandering albatross / Pablo Neruda
  • Birds and the flute: the pipes of Pan / Lucretius
  • Kokopelli: symbol of a continent of birds / Terry Tempest Williams
  • Bird song / Karl Rasmussen
  • Magic words / Karl Rasmussen
  • The loon / Richard K. Nelson
  • Thoreau and the birds / Henry David Thoreau
  • Almana / Donald Culross Peattie
  • Mimicry / Roger J. Pasquier
  • Spring / Annie Dillard
  • A raven's call / Bernd Heinrich
  • Bird song compared to human music / Charles Hartshorne
  • The frigate pelican / Marianne Moore
  • Evolution and the bird of paradise / Edward O. Wilson
  • The water ouzel / John Muir
  • Ritual in terns / John Hay
  • The dance of the whooping crane / Robert Porter Allen
  • The origin of the threat postures / Niko Tinbergen
  • The aesthetic sense / Karl Von Frisch
  • The light-mantled sooty albatross / Louis J. Halle
  • The kingfisher / Ted Hughes
  • Where the birds are our friends / Gary Paul Nabhan
  • Bird neighbors: the bluebird / John Burroughs
  • Bird neighbors: the eastern screech owl / Frank M. Chapman
  • Bird neighbors: the golden-crowned kinglet / Arthur Cleveland Bent
  • Bird neighbors: the black-capped chickadee / Edward Howe Forbush.
  • Bird neighbors: the loon; or, great northern diver / Edward Howe Forbush
  • Bartram and the birds / William Bartram
  • Birds sowing and harvesting / Ted Levin
  • Our lads / Jake Page
  • Duck weather / Jake Page
  • In the pinewoods, crows and owl / Mary Oliver
  • The passenger pigeon / John James Audubon
  • The Andean condor / Charles Darwin
  • Wild swans of the Chesapeake / Gilbert Klingel
  • The road runner / Joseph Wood Krutch
  • Spring in the Arctic wilderness / Knud Rasmussen
  • The seafarer / anonymous
  • The quest for survival / Franklin Russell
  • Sea-going of the murre chicks / Leslie M. Tuck
  • From another world / Louis J. Halle
  • The brown skua / Robert Cushman Murphy
  • Emperor penguins / Edward A. Wilson
  • To the man-of-war bird / Walt Whitman
  • Migration / Pablo Neruda
  • Early navigation: by stars and birds / Rachel L. Carson
  • How birds migrate / Roger J. Pasquier
  • The rainbow birds of spring / Edwin Way Teale
  • Migration of the shorebird / Peter Matthiessen
  • Challenging sea and sky / Fred Bodsworth
  • Migration: the corridors of breath / Barry Lopez
  • The objects of immortality / Pattiann Rogers.

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