Birdmania

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""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. ""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"" ""17 Recording Nature""""18 Deadly Obsessions"" ""19 Fantasies of Flight"" ""Epilogue"" ""Acknowledgments"" ""Selected Bibliography and Sources for Quotes"" ""List of Illustrations"" ""Index of Birds""