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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Gedney, Jack, 1989- author.
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Birds -- California -- Identification.
Birds.
Bird watching.
Human-animal relationships.
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The private lives of...
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The private lives of public birds : learning to listen to the birds where we live / Jack Gedney ; illustrations by Anna Kuś Park.
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Gedney, Jack, 1989- author.
Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2022]
Subjects
Birds -- California -- Identification.
Birds.
Bird watching.
Human-animal relationships.
ISBN:
9781597145749 (hardcover) :
1597145742 (hardcover)
Description:
ix, 213 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents:
Speakers. The brown bird: California Towhee ; The garden's keeper: California scrub-jay ; I can hear when they call: American crow ; Waxwing revelations: Cedar waxwing -- Singers. Dawn's watcher: American robin ; The blessed halo: House finch ; This goldfinch is not lesser: Lesser goldfinch ; Devotion's fruit: Mourning dove ; The dusky demon: Northern mockingbird ; Autumn kings: White-crowned and Golden-crowned sparrows ; In the darkness she will listen: Great horned owl -- Visions. Light of the oasis: Hooded oriole ; The beautiful purifier: Turkey vulture ; The view from above: Red-tailed hawk ; A little miracle: Anna's hummingbird -- Tools for learning the birds.
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"Gedney shares his devotion to everyday Western birds in fifteen essays. Each essay illuminates the life of a single species and its relationship to humans, and how these species can help us understand birds in general"--Provided by publisher.
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Hawaii State Library
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