The gift of birds : true encounters with avian spirits / edited by Larry Habegger and Amy Greimann Carlson.
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San Francisco :
Travelers' Tales,
©1999.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Travelers' Tales guides.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Mockingbird summer / Larry Habegger
- pt. 1. Vivid encounters
- Gift of seed / Peter Dunne
- Stripped naked / David Abram
- A pelican frenzy / Pamela Conley
- Hardwired / Ron Naveen
- What the raven said / Jim Nollman
- Laughing loon / Sigurd F. Olson
- Without a riple / Amy Greimann Carlson
- Stop the car / Monica Wood
- Short-tailed albatrosses / Diane Ackerman
- Crazy courage / Louise Erdrich
- Sweet hope waiting / Barbara Earl Thomas
- Bird-watching as a blood sport / David James Duncan
- The Balinese chicken / Alice Walker
- The parrots of Telegraph Hill / Mark Bittner
- Honey guide / H.V. Morton
- Wild owls / Bernd Heinrich
- pt. 3. Odd ducks
- The legend of Jesse Mew / Pete Dunne
- How the pimpernel saved his pigeons / Pippa Stuart
- Nothing tastes like roadkill / Robert H. Boyle
- Close to the end / Kenn Kaufman
- After the fires / Peter Davis
- The ramble of Central Park / Marie Winn
- pt. 4. Brushes with divinity
- Actual field conditions / James Kilgo
- The setting of wings / Buddy Levy
- Whimbrels / Terry Tempest Williams
- Redbird / Jake Page
- The last cranes of Siberia / Peter Matthiessen
- Invisibility / Jon Young
- With no direction home / Jon Carroll
- Epiphany / Leonard Nathan
- pt. 5. Ascending song
- Sky lark / Kenn Kaufman
- Recommended reading.