Golden Wings: And Other Stories About Birders and Birding.PETE DUNNE Pete Dunne is an American author, famous for his writings on natural history and birding. He is also the founder of the World Series of Birding, as well as the current director of the Cape May Bird Observatory, Vice President of Natural History for the New Jersey Audubon Society, Dunne is perhaps the world's best-known living bird-watcher. This book pulls together 41 articles he has published in recent years on the subjects of his affection. Among them is a wandering Wandering See also Adventurousness, Bohemianism, Journey, Quest. Ahasuerus German name for the Wandering Jew. [Ger. Lit. albatross with which he had a remarkable encounter. In another essay, Dunne imagines the "perfect bird": with the size of a turkey, the wingspan of an eagle, the legs of a crane, the feet of a moorhen moorhen: see rail. moorhen or common gallinule Bird of the migratory gallinule species (Gallinula chloropus, family Rallidae) of Europe, Africa, and eastern North America. , and the talons of a great horned owl great horned owl Horned owl species (Bubo virginianus) that ranges from Arctic tree limits south to the Strait of Magellan. A powerful, mottled-brown predator, it is often more than 2 ft (60 cm) long, with a wingspan often approaching 80 in. (200 cm). . He opens his book with a tribute to the late birding legend Robert Tory Peterson. U TX Pr, 2003, 122 p., paperback, $15.95. |
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