Tales of a Low-Rent Birder

by Pete Dunne, David Sibley (Illustrator), Roger Tory Peterson (Introduction)

Overview

Tales of a Low-Rent Birder is a collection of nineteen essays and sketches written between 1977 and 1985. It was originally published in 1986.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780292715745
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Publication date:	06/01/1994
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	173
Sales rank:	277,796
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Pete Dunne is director of natural history information for the New Jersey Audubon Society's Cape May Bird Observatory in Cape May Point, New Jersey. A widely published writer on birding, he is also author of The Feather Quest: A North American Birder's Year and Hawks in Flight.

Table of Contents

• Foreword by Roger Tory Peterson
• Preface
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Billy Leeds and the Eagle
• Overflight
• A Tale of Two Hawkwatchers
• Pulling Strings
• Bookcase Bluebill
• First-Year Bird
• The Legend of Jesse Mew
• Birdathon '83—A Saab Story
• A Lifer for Roger
• SVAT
• A Peregrine Going South for the First Time Again
• Scotch Bonnet Blind
• A Gift of Vision
• A Confederate Hawkwatcher from AK-625
• Shearwater Sunday
• Death of a Season
• Sitkagi Spring
• Macadam Encounter
• Thoughts While Waiting for an Ice Falcon

Editorial Reviews

In these tales about birds, birding, and birders, Dunne has captured many of the feelings that make birding special.... Almost any ornithologist or naturalist would enjoy this book.

Auk

His sketchbook tales . . . are lively and brimming with wit, satire, and sensitivity.

New Jersey Audubon