Nighthawks: Lake Perez / Katie Fallon -- Spotted Owls / Rob Nixon -- Birding in Traffic / Jonathan Rosen -- Buried Birds / Elizabeth Bradfield -- The Problem with Pretty Birds / Andrew Furman -- Red-headed Love Child / J. Drew Lanham -- Crane, Water, Change: A Migratory Essay / Christine Byl -- The Black and White / Sara Crosby -- One Single Hummingbird / Eli J. Knapp -- Assault on the French Canal Bridge / R. A. Behrstock -- Wild Swans / Alison Townsend -- The Snowy Winter / David Gessner -- Koan / Ursula Murray Husted -- This Is My Tribe / Thomas Bancroft -- In the Eyes of the Condor / Christina Baal -- Little Brown Birds / Richard Bohannon -- The Keepers of the Ghost Bird / Jenn Dean -- The Hour (or Two) before the Dawn / Donald Kroodsma -- Secret of Owls / K. Bannerman -- Guardian of the Garden / Renata Golden -- Chasing the Ghost of the Imperial Woodpecker / Tim Gallagher -- Extralimital / Alison Vilag -- Death and the Rose-breasted Grosbeak / John R. Nelson -- Birding on Bleaker Island / Rachel Dickinson -- Nest Watcher / Susan Cerulean -- My Bird Problem / Jonathan Franzen.
Summary
"This book is a literary collection that explores and celebrates a life with birds"-- Provided by publisher.