The Feather Quest: A North American Birder's Year,9780395927908

The Feather Quest: A North American Birder's Year

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ISBN13: 9780395927908
ISBN10: 0395927900
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-04-30
Publisher(s): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Summary

When a flash of pink was spotted in a cloud of gray gulls over Newburyport, Massachusetts, ten thousand people descended on the town in hopes of seeing a rare Ross's gull from Siberia. Among them were Pete and Linda Dunne, who set off from there on a year-long odyssey. Dunne had poured the most remarkable stories, birds, and characters into this unforgettable book about their once-in-a-lifetime adventure.

Author Biography

PETE DUNNE is the author of eleven books, including Pete Dunne’s Essential Field Guide Companion and Pete Dunne on Bird Watching. He is the vice president of the New Jersey Audubon Society and director of its Cape May Bird Observatory.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiii
Foreword xvii
Roger Tory Peterson
Introduction to the Mariner edition xxi
Birthday Present xxv
Whippany, New Jersey:
Birding with the Kid
3(12)
Newburyport, Massachusetts:
River and Roots
15(18)
Florida:
In the Wader Pool (Getting Our Feet Wet)
33(10)
Everglades National Park, Florida:
Going to Snake Bight
43(12)
Rio Grande Valley, Texas:
The Valley
55(20)
Baltimore, Maryland:
The Pink Pukka
75(14)
Mississippi, Alabama, Florida:
Gulf Coast Spring
89(16)
Point Pelee, Ontario:
Impact at the Omega Point
105(14)
New Jersey:
The World Series of Birding
119(24)
Attu, Alaska:
Birding the Fringe
143(26)
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska:
Birding Beyond the Ken
169(18)
Manitoba, Canada:
Have Bins, Will Travel
187(22)
The Pawnee Grasslands, Colorado:
Prairie Summer
209(14)
Southeast Arizona:
Eden's Desert
223(14)
Monterey, California:
Shearwater Journeys
237(14)
Cape May, New Jersey:
Birding's Migration Main Line
251(20)
Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania:
The Endless Mountain
271(12)
Sacramento Valley and Tule Lake, California:
Storms of Wings
283(14)
Los Padres National Forest, California:
Ghost Dancing on Mount Pinos
297(10)
Old Lyme, Connecticut:
Pilgrimage
307(10)
Baldwin City, Kansas:
Little Count on the Prairies
317(16)
Appendix: Binoculars 333(4)
Bibliography 337(8)
Index 345

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