The Birds in the Oaks
Heyday Books (Verlag)
978-1-59714-659-3 (ISBN)
With charm and delight, The Birds in the Oaks introduces us to the birds who burrow, forage, and soar among California's keystone trees. The mighty oak hosts a multitude of avian denizens—from canopy hoppers to ground nesters to short-billed surface pluckers—who rely on the trees' well-stocked pantry of acorns, insects, and flowers for sustenance and shelter. Spunky kinglets, crimson-eyed towhees, cuddle-craving bushtits, intrepid nuthatches, and impudent wrens are among the many memorable cast members in this pageant of oak-allied birds.
Jack Gedney lyrically conveys the beautiful, comic, and endearing qualities of over fifteen bird species, each profile paired with an illustration by Angelina Gedney. His bird-filled tales of adaptation, ingenuity, and sheer persistence also bring to light the warp and weft of cross-species interdependence. The Birds in the Oaks reveals to us the utter joy of birds, the superabundant world of the oaks, and the innumerable interconnections these living beings create.
Jack Gedney is also the author of The Private Lives of Public Birds: Learning to Listen to the Birds Where We Live and a compact field guide to the trees of the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2018, he has written a column on local birds, "On the Wing," for the Marin Independent Journal. Jack currently co-owns a wild bird feeding and nature shop in Novato, California. Angelina Gedney is an artist based in Davis, CA.
The Heart of the Oak Woodland
The Soul of the Oaks: Oak Titmouse
The Prober of the Furrows: White-breasted Nuthatch
The Kinglet and the Greenlet: Ruby-crowned Kinglet and Hutton’s Vireo
The Relatability of the Absurd: Acorn Woodpecker
The Birds Beneath the Oaks
Discontented Shadows: Spotted Towhee
The Gentleness That Binds: California Quail
A Bird at Our Level: Bewick’s Wren
The Little Tailor: Bushtit
Visitors from the Pines and Firs
A Fire Rises: Northern Flicker
The Antidote of Fear: Chestnut-backed Chickadee
The Winter Thrushes: Hermit and Varied Thrush
A Light in Winter: Townsend’s Warbler
Between Oak and Sky
Grayness Overcome: Western Bluebird
The Living Wind: Band-tailed Pigeon
The Falcon of the Oaks: American Kestrel
The Sky Elf: Violet-green Swallow
Acknowledgements
Notes
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.09.2024 |
|---|---|
| Illustrationen | Angelina Gedney |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Berkeley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 139 x 215 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-59714-659-5 / 1597146595 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-59714-659-3 / 9781597146593 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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