The Gift of Birds - Table Of Contents

Introduction: Mockingbird Summer--Larry Habegger

Part One: Vivid Encounters

Gift of Seed--Pete Dunne

Stripped Naked--David Abram

A Pelican Frenzy--Pamela Conley

Hardwired--Ron Naveen

What the Raven Said--Jim Nollman

Laughing Loon--Sigurd F. Olson

Without A Ripple--Amy Greimann Carlson

Stop the Car--Monica Wood

Short-tailed Albatrosses--Diane Ackerman

Part Two: Kindred Spirits

Crazy Courage--Louise Erdrich

Sweet Hope Waiting--Barbara Earl Thomas

Bird-Watching as a Blood Sport--David James Duncan

The Balinese Chicken--Alice Walker

The Parrots of Telegraph Hill--Mark Bittner

Honey Guide--H.V. Morton

Wild Owls--Bernd Heinrich

Part Three:Odd Ducks

The Legend of Jesse Mew--Pete Dunne

How the Pimpernel Saved His Pigeons--Pippa Stuart

Nothing Tastes Like Roadkill--Robert H. Boyle

Close to the End--Kenn Kaufman

After the Fires--Peter Davis

The Ramble of Central Park--Marie Winn

Part Four: Brushes with Divinity

Actual Field Conditions--James Kilgo

The Setting of Wings--Buddy Levy

Whimbrels--Terry Tempest Williams

Redbird--Jake Page

The Last Cranes of Siberia--Peter Matthiessen

Invisibility--Jon Young

With No Direction Home--Jon Carroll

Epiphany--Leonard Nathan

Part Five: Ascending Song

Sky Lark--Kenn Kaufman

Recommended Reading
Index
Acknowledgements

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