Dubbed the "Bard of America's Bird-Watchers" by the Wall Street
Journal, Pete Dunne knows birders and birding--instinctively and
completely. He understands the compulsion that drives other birders
to go out at first light, whatever the weather, for a chance to
maybe, just maybe, glimpse that rare migrant that someone might
have spotted in a patch of woods the day before yesterday. And yet,
he also knows how . . . well . . . strange the birding obsession
becomes when viewed through the eyes of a nonbirder. His dual
perspective--totally engrossed in birding, yet still aware of the
"odd birdness" of some birders--makes reading his essays a pure
pleasure whether you pursue "the feather quest" or not.
This book collects forty-one of Dunne's recent essays, drawn
from his columns in Living Bird, Wild Bird News, the New Jersey
Sunday section of the New York Times, Birder's World, and other
publications. Written with his signature wit and insight, they
cover everything from a moment of awed communion with a Wandering
Albatross ("the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen") to Dunne's
imagined "perfect bird" ("The Perfect Bird is the size of a turkey,
has the wingspan of an eagle, the legs of a crane, the feet of a
moorhen, and the talons of a great horned owl. It eats kudzu,
surplus zucchini, feral cats, and has been known to predate upon
homeowners who fire up their lawn mowers before 7:00 A.M. on the
weekend."). The title essay pays whimsical, yet heartfelt tribute
to Dunne's mentor, the late birding legend Roger Tory Peterson.
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