What Birdo is that?
eBook - ePub

What Birdo is that?

A Field Guide to Bird-people

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

What Birdo is that?

A Field Guide to Bird-people

About this book

The idea that a bird is good news and needs all our support is probably the only thing amateur birdos, professional zoologists and 'birdscapers'—people who redesign their gardens to support birdlife—have in common. But together they form a conservation community that cares about the future of birds and their habitats, who are working to heal the damage wrought by those who don't notice birds. What Birdo is That? reveals how bird-people in Australia have gone about their craft across the years. Its stories come from wild places — at sea as well as on the land—from dusty archives, from restoration projects, gardens and urban wastelands. They are human stories, but the birds themselves interject and interrupt any self-important anthropocentrism. They educate. They counter the imperialism of the ever-expanding economies of the new millennium. They turn up in unexpected places, giving surprise and joy. This field guide to Australia's bird-people provides a basis for understanding the complex relationship between people and birds in a land of extremes at the forefront of changing climate and habitats.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Prologue This Eccentric Field Guide
  7. 1 Birding for the Nation
  8. 2 Night Parrot
  9. 3 Nature Study and Names
  10. 4 Campouts and Cameras
  11. 5 Lyrebird
  12. 6 Scientists and Citizens
  13. 7 The Rest of the World Comes to Australia
  14. 8 Noisy Scrub-bird
  15. 9 A Crisis in Conservation
  16. 10 Watching and Observing
  17. 11 Raven
  18. 12 Birding Abroad and at Home
  19. Epilogue The Canary in the Coalmine
  20. Acknowledgements
  21. Notes
  22. Index