The private eye : observing snow geese / Mary Burns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burns, Mary, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Snow goose.

Anser.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Private Eye we learn about snow geese through the eyes of Native people, scientists, artists, hunters, and farmers. Yup'ik Eskimo Charles Hunt harvests snow geese along the Yukon River delta each fall, continuing a subsistence way of life that has existed for millennia. Russian, Canadian, and U.S. scientists track the movements of the geese each spring and fall, banding, sexing, counting, and precisely monitoring the activities of these beautiful birds. Robert Bateman provides an artist's view of nature and relates how his curiosity led him to join a camp set up at a remote nesting site. Mary Burns also talks to hunters, joining a party of them as they wait for their snow geese decoys to lure the real thing into a Westham Island field in the Fraser delta. As well, Burns travels around the Skagit River delta during a population survey and meets a dairy farmer who describes both the wild flocks that converge on his fields each spring and the snow geese he raises in pens. The Private Eye suggests that by acknowledging our many and varied connections with the natural world, we will have a better understanding of the human place in it.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Maps and Illustrations

Introduction

1 The Flight South

2 The Eye of the Beholder

3 Fall on the Fraser

4 The Scientific View

5 Data Surfing and Other Observational Sports

6 The Artist's Perspective

7 Down the Ditch! Dialogues with Hunters

8 Snow Geese for Supper

9 The Festival of Snow Geese

10 Pair Bonding on the Skagit

11 Spring, the Flight North

12 Nesting on Wrangel: The Cycle Continues

13 Afterthoughts

Bibliography

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-204) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-13219-2

9786613132192

0-7748-5643-2

OCLC:

226374801