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Slow birding the art and science of enjoying the birds in your own backyard

"Many birders travel far and wide to popular birding destinations to catch sight of rare or "exotic" birds. In Slow Birding, evolutionary biologist Joan E. Strassmann introduces readers to the joys of birding right where they are. In this inspiring guide to the art of slow birding, Strassmann tells...

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Main Author: Strassmann, Joan (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : TarcherPerigee, Penguin Random House LLC, [2022]
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Bird watching > United States.
Bird feeders > United States.
Birds > United States > Identification.
Field guides.
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Summary:"Many birders travel far and wide to popular birding destinations to catch sight of rare or "exotic" birds. In Slow Birding, evolutionary biologist Joan E. Strassmann introduces readers to the joys of birding right where they are. In this inspiring guide to the art of slow birding, Strassmann tells colorful stories of the most common birds to be found in the United States-birds we often see but might not have considered deeply before"--
Physical Description:xiii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780593329924
0593329929
Author Notes:Joan Strassmann grew up in the forests and fields of central Michigan. She brings a deep love and understanding of this world to her books on birds, Slow Birding, Slow Birding Journal, and Social Lives of Birds. To her work she also brings insights from a career spent studying the tension between cooperation and conflict in organisms as diverse as social wasps and social amoebas. She is Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis and is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences. She lives with her husband in St. Louis Missouri and Leland Michigan.

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