Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds is a collection of seventeen thoughtful essays on birds capture the sense of wonder and connection people have for these marvelous creatures. Naturalist Lyanda Lynn Haupt, an ornithology teacher and researcher, examines the amazing talents and personalities of the most common of birds. She muses on the tarnished reputation of the starling, the sexed - up antics of male woodpeckers, and the mysterious behavior and startling population explosion of crows in her hometown. Through the eye and voice of this talented writer, birds provide a fascinating point of contact with the natural world at large. This book is nature writing at its best with compelling stories that hold readers' attention so closely they don't even realize how much they're learning.
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Lyanda Lynn Haupt was the education director of the Seattle Audubon society from 1996 to 1998. She has taught ornithology and birdwatching extensively at Seattle Audubon, Portland State University, and North Seattle Community College. She has also worked in raptor rehabilitation at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, in Peregrine Falcon re - introduction in Minnesota, and in seabird reseearch with the Fish and Wildlife Service in the remote tropical Pacific. Her writing on birds has appeared in Open Spaces, Wild Earth Journal, Conservation Biology Journal, Birdwatcher's Digest, and The Prairie Naturalist. She lives in Seattle with her husband and young daughter. This is her first book (although an essay of hers will be included in an anthology, Best of Wild Earth, to be published by Milkweed Editions). She is working on a new book about Charles Darwin for Little Brown.
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