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Golden wings and other stories about birders and birding / Pete Dunne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunne, Pete, 1951-
- Series:
- Corrie Herring Hooks series ; no. 56.
- Corrie Herring Hooks series ; no. 56
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bird watchers--Anecdotes.
- Bird watchers.
- Bird watching--Anecdotes.
- Bird watching.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (137 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text collects 41 of Pete Dunne's recent essays, drawn from his columns in Living Bird, Wild Bird News, the New Jersey Sunday section of the New York Times, Birder's World, and other publications. Written with his signature wit and insight, they cover everything from a moment of awed communion with a Wandering Albatross (the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen) to Dunne's imagined perfect bird (The Perfect Bird is the size of a turkey, has the wingspan of an eagle, the legs of a crane, the feet of a moorhen, and the talons of a great horned owl. It eats kudzu, surplus zucchini, feral cats, and has been known to predate upon homeowners who fire up their lawn mowers before 7:00 am on the weekend). The title essay pays whimsical, yet heartfelt tribute to Dunne's mentor, the late birding legend Roger Tory Peterson.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Eye of the Beheld
- All You Need Is
- Directions, Please!
- Listening with Longing, Settling for Beauty
- Birding Tough
- Words to Lead By
- The Best Yard in the Neighborhood
- Crusader's Banner
- Donna and the Right Stuff
- Of Kids and Model Airplanes
- Going to the Bird Store. Hoping for a Guide
- The Take-Home of Going Away
- Want to Go for a Walk?
- Birding in Shadowland
- Stuff E'nuf?
- A Six-Pack of Fame
- Explorers (of the Lost World) Club
- Earl's Journal
- A Flicker Day for Sure
- The Errors We're Known By
- Talkin' around a Sighting
- Truth and Consequences
- Something Stringy about This
- Binocular Reality
- Circus genitalia
- Almost Ivory
- Hearing
- New Eyes
- Intimate
- Birding Products for the Twenty-first Century
- Peenter Pan
- The Trust of Jay
- Ghost Writing
- Golden Wings
- Meet the New Age . . .
- Birdin' in the Rain
- A Life without Birding?
- Understanding Wren
- A Chat about the Rules
- Passing the Pen
- The Perfect Bird.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-292-79778-8
- OCLC:
- 614506088
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