Backyard Bird Chronicles

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Amy Tan, David Allen Sibley: Backyard Bird Chronicles (2024, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)

lingua English

Pubblicato il 14 Dicembre 2024 da Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-593-53614-8
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An enjoyable book full of notes about birds and their behaviour.

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A lovely book filled with observations of birds that the author sees in her backyard. Those with an interesting in bird watching, natural history or nature observation will find much to enjoy in the author's notes on the birds she sees and the observations she makes about their behaviour.

The notes cover a period of years, including during the COVID-19 lockdown and mainly covers what she does (like putting up feed for the birds), what the birds do (preening, bathing, interacting with her and with other birds) and what she thinks the birds are doing.

Occasional unusual events are also noted, like the times she sees sick and birds and tries to do what she can to help them. Wildfires in her area are noted, as well as the periods when birds migrate. The COVID-19 lockdown period is one time when she is more than grateful for birds to distract …

Argomenti

  • Bird watching
  • Birds
  • Nature
  • Personal memoirs
  • Authors, biography