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Subject(s)

• Bird watching—Anecdotes [Browse]
• Bird watchers—Anecdotes [Browse]
• Birds—Anecdotes [Browse]
• Human-animal relationships—Anecdotes [Browse]
• Ornithology—History [Browse]
• Ornithology—Anecdotes [Browse]
• Ornithologists—Anecdotes [Browse]
• Bird watching—History [Browse]

Writer of foreword

• Dunne, Pete, 1951- [Browse]

Translator

• Billinghurst, Jane, 1958- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Anecdotes [Browse]

Translation of

Brunner, Bernd, 1964- Ornithomania

Summary note

In this collection it is the watchers, not the birds, who are on display--ornithologists and bird lovers of every description, revealed in sketches and anecdotes that are quirky, intriguing, and always affectionate.

Notes

"Originally published by Verlag Galiani Berlin, Germany, as Ornithomania : Geschichte einer besonderen Leidenschaft by Bernd Brunner copyright © 2015 by Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne"--Title page verso.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-273) and indexes.

Language note

Translated from the German.

Contents

• Foreword / by Pete Dunne
• What's that sound?
• Early enthusiasts
• Bedazzlement
• Strutting someone else's stuff
• Laying the groundwork for science
• A bird in the hand
• Lost in the mists of time
• Championing birds
• In the company of birds
• A walk on the wild side
• Is bird love a one-way street?
• To kill or not to kill?
• Flight trackers
• The lure of the egg
• Focus on feathers
• Mad for bird watching
• Tracking dodos and their ilk
• Recording nature
• Deadly obsessions
• Fantasies of flight
• Epilogue.

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ISBN

• 9781771642774 ((cloth))
• 1771642777 ((cloth))

OCLC

975140283

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