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Bald Coot and Screaming Loon: A Handbook for the Curious Bird Lover

Bald Coot and Screaming Loon: A Handbook for the Curious Bird Lover

by NiallEdworthy (Author)

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    Hardcover 2009

    $3.40
Synopsis

Bald Coot & Screaming Loon contains over 1000 entries of remarkable information about birds, birdlife and birdwatching. Chapters include: The Last of the Dinosaurs: How birds evolved and adapted; The Cloaca Monologues: Courtship & Breeding; A Cracking Start: Raising a family; Sing A Song of Sixpence: Why birds sing and call; Why don't birds wee? Birds and their bodies; A Complex Relationship: Birds & man; The Majesty of Flight: How and why birds fly; Pole to pole without a map: The mystery of migration; Bird Brain: Instinct or intelligence?; Weird Birds & Strange Behaviour: A curate's egg of a chapter; and The Battle for Survival: How birds are faring in a damaged world. Woven into this wealth of knowledge are famous quotations, anecdotes, traditional sayings, lines of verse, practical advice for attracting and spotting birds, and words of rural wisdom. The spirit and focus of the Almanac is British but the book also travels as far and distant as the world's birds themselves. It is truly an essential handbook for every bird lover.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Eden Project Books
Published: 09 Apr 2009
ISBN 10: 1905811357
ISBN 13: 9781905811359
Book Overview: A revelation for everyone who has ever bought a bird box, spied on a blue tit from their kitchen window or just looked above their heads and gazed in awe at the swooping creatures above.

Media Reviews
Fascinating for anyone with an inquisitive mind and a love of wildlife in general. Friends of the Earth magazine, EARTH MATTERS Contains lots of sensible stuff ... an irresistible package. Eden magazine Containing a wealth of remarkable information about birds, birdlife and birdwatching, this book will prove a revelation for anyone with the slightest interest in the feathered friends visiting their gardens ... With more than 1,000 facts, figures and fables, it's an ideal stocking filler for bird lovers. Garden News 20091215
Author Bio
Writing under a variety of noms de plume, Niall Edworthy has written over a dozen books covering a wide range of subjects from military history, biography and outdoor survival to general humour and sport. In 2002 Niall moved house and discovered gardening, a relationship that began as an arranged marriage, but quickly blossomed into a passion, inspiring the delightful CURIOUS GARDENER'S ALMANAC. It could only be a matter of time before he took notice of the feathered creatures with which he shared his outdoor space, and their very curious antics. So began another love affair. Niall lives with his family in Sussex.