When birds are near : dispatches from contemporary writers / edited by Susan Fox Rogers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rogers, Susan Fox, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birds--Literary collections.

Birds.

Bird watching--Literary collections.

Bird watching.

Essays.

Genre:

Essays.

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

pages cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca [New York] : Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"This book is a literary collection that explores and celebrates a life with birds"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: When birds are near.

ISBN:

9781501750915

1501750917

OCLC:

1128452125

Publisher Number:

99985257229