Laura Erickson invites more than 250 birds right into your living room. Get to know a wide variety of birds from rare hawk owls, to elusive sedge wrens, to that more southern species, the plastic lawn flamingo. Laura's lighthearted wit and extensive knowledge combine to incite even those with a rudimentary interest (birds fly and lay eggs) into field tracking that hawk owl. You'll be amazed at the enjoyment birds can wing into your day.
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Laura Erickson writes about birds as if they were members of her family, individuals whose habits, preferences, and personalities are intimately known and appreciated. -- Pam Leschak, General Manger, KAXE
This book is invaluable. For example, it states that as many as 1,600 tapeworms have been found in a single duck. This is the kind of information I use every day. -- Dave Barry, columnist, Miami Herald
charming, educational, and chock full of neat ornithological tidbits. -- Frank B. Gill, curator of ornithology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
This book is invaluable. For example, it states that as many as 1,600 tapeworms have been found in a single duck. This is the kind of information I use every day. -- Dave Barry, columnist, Miami Herald
charming, educational, and chock full of neat ornithological tidbits. -- Frank B. Gill, curator of ornithology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
About the Author
Laura Erickson's popular radio program, For the Birds, airs on several public radio stations. Laura has received numerous awards for ornithological research, conservation, and writing.
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Laura Erickson has been fascinated with birds since she could stand on the sofa and watch city pigeons out her Chicago two-flat window when she was a toddler. She has been avidly birding since 1975, and since then she has been teaching about birds as a local Audubon society field trip leader, elementary and junior high school teacher, "For the Birds" radio program creator and producer, Brownie and Girl Scout leader, public speaker, and writer.
For a few years, she was what she calls a migrant worker, migrating between her house and husband in Duluth, Minnesota, and her job as Science Editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York. But she was homesick and returned to Minnesota for good. Now she's a contributing editor to BirdWatching magazine, and still working on "For the Birds," which has been on the air for over 25 years. Wherever she is, she's likely to have her dog Photon along, and to be living with her cat Kasey (once a feral cat who lived on songbirds but now strictly an indoor cat) and her licensed education Eastern Screech-Owl, Archimedes. She has three wonderful adult children, none of whom is a birder but all of whom care about birds and the environment.
For a few years, she was what she calls a migrant worker, migrating between her house and husband in Duluth, Minnesota, and her job as Science Editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York. But she was homesick and returned to Minnesota for good. Now she's a contributing editor to BirdWatching magazine, and still working on "For the Birds," which has been on the air for over 25 years. Wherever she is, she's likely to have her dog Photon along, and to be living with her cat Kasey (once a feral cat who lived on songbirds but now strictly an indoor cat) and her licensed education Eastern Screech-Owl, Archimedes. She has three wonderful adult children, none of whom is a birder but all of whom care about birds and the environment.
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I love the insights in this book and the way that they are arranged by days and months so that you can follow them by season. I don't live in the same climate that Laura Erickson does, but I enjoy reading the changing of the seasons along with her.Her attitude is both scientific and humane, with enough playfulness thrown in to relieve the sometimes grim stories of the struggles of our feathered friends against the environmental challenges we put in their way.
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If you are new to birding, this is your book!,
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Well written, even entertaining most of the time. The format is excellent
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