Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds is a collection of seventeen thoughtful essays on birds capture the sense of wonder
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Table of contents :
Content: Introduction
First Bird
An Invasion of Owls
The Presence of Birds: A Very New Life List
The Thrush and the Faerie
Cormorant Problem
The Birdwatcher's Book of Secrets
When Good Woodpeckers Go Bad
The Pacific-slope Flycatcher: A New Species, Sort of
The Hidden Blue Grouse
The Secret Lives of Vaux's Swift
Winter Wren: Thoughts on Voice and Place
Sparrows as Mothers
One-Eyed Dunlin
Young Love: A Back-to-School Story
Postcards from the Mayan Ruins
Crow Stories
Bird Vision
Acknowledgments
Author Biography.