Ebook: Birdmania

""Cover""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""What's That Sound?""; ""1 Early Enthusiasts""; ""2 Bedazzlement""; ""3 Strutting Someone Else's Stuff""; ""4 Laying the Groundwork for Science""; ""5 A Bird in the Hand""; ""6 Lost in the Mists of Time""; ""7 Championing Birds""; ""8 In the Company of Birds""; ""9 A Walk on the Wild Side""; ""10 Is Bird Love a One-Way Street?""; ""11 To Kill or Not to Kill?""; ""12 Flight Trackers""; ""13 The Lure of the Egg""; ""14 Focus on Feathers""; ""15 Mad for Bird Watching""; ""16 Tracking Dodos and Their Ilk"";A window on the world of birders-obsessive, passionate, quirky, and always interesting. ""Like bird watching itself, reading Birdmania is filled with surprises and a sense of discovery. But 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. Highly enjoyable.""--Thor Hanson, author of Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle.