Birdmania
Subtitle: a remarkable passion for birds
By: Bernd Brunner ; foreword by Pete Dunne ; translation by Jane Billinghurst
Contributors: Dunne, Pete, 1951- writer of foreword; Billinghurst, Jane, 1958- translator
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781771642774
Subjects: Anecdotes; Ornithology; Bird watchers; Bird watching; Human-animal relationships; Birds; Ornithologists; History
Work titles: Ornithomania
Description: In this collection it is the watchers, not the birds, who are on display--ornithologists and bird lovers of every description, revealed in sketches and anecdotes that are quirky, intriguing, and always affectionate.
Notes: "Originally published by Verlag Galiani Berlin, Germany, as Ornithomania : Geschichte einer besonderen Leidenschaft [2015]"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-273) and indexes.

Traslated from the German.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Pete Dunne; title: What's that sound?; title: Early enthusiasts; title: Bedazzlement; title: Strutting someone else's stuff; title: Laying the groundwork for science; title: A bird in the hand; title: Lost in the mists of time; title: Championing birds; title: In the company of birds; title: A walk on the wild side; title: Is bird love a one-way street?; title: To kill or not to kill?; title: Flight trackers; title: The lure of the egg; title: Focus on feathers; title: Mad for bird watching; title: Tracking dodos and their ilk; title: Recording nature; title: Deadly obsessions; title: Fantasies of flight; title: Epilogue.