The bluebird effect, uncommon bonds with common birds, Julie Zickefoose
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The bluebird effect, uncommon bonds with common birds, Julie Zickefoose
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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contains biographical information
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illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The bluebird effect
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
666239992
Responsibility statement
Julie Zickefoose
Sub title
uncommon bonds with common birds
Summary
A wild bird rehabilitator and nature artist describes her painstaking efforts to rescue injured birds and her experiences when those birds come back to visit, looking at the personality and quirks of individual birds of different species
Table Of Contents
Spring songbirds: peeking into the nest. Bluebird effect ; Tree swallow: the early bird wins my heart ; Speaking of starlings ; Chickadee: tough tit ; Barn swallow: old friends & eggshells ; Carolina wren: kitchen sink ornithology -- Summer work: drawing, raising, and saving birds. Hummingbird summer ; Osprey: hooked by round talons ; Nobody can cuss like a titmouse ; Chimney swift: high-maintenance aerialist ; Rose-breasted grosbeak: close encounters of the bird kind ; Scarlet tanager: a voice in the canopy ; Summer of phoebes ; Piping plover and least tern: you do what you must -- Autumnal reflections: pondering the imponderable. The strange case of the companionable grouse ; White-throated sparrow: the song in my heart ; Savannah sparrow: forever wild ; Orchard oriole: I know why the caged bird flutters ; Touched by a redtail ; Ivory-billed woodpecker: not saying goodbye -- Winter musings: birds we feed, birds that feed us. Love and death among the cranes ; Mourning dove : the meatiest songbird ; Northern cardinal: stoking the red fire ; Turkey vulture: the unlikely totem ; Chestnut-fronted macaw : first comes love
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