Down & Dirty Birding: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, Here's All the Outrageous but True Stuff You've Ever Wanted to Know About North American Birds

by Joey Slinger

Overview

From Simon & Schuster, Down and Dirty Birding: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous is Joey Slinger's fascinating exploration of North American birds.

Joey Slinger's Down and Dirty Birding: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous is all the outrageous but true stuff you never wanted to know about North American birds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780684804590
Publisher:	Touchstone
Publication date:	07/03/1996
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Joey Slinger is the author of Down & Dirty Birding, a Simon & Schuster book.

Editorial Reviews

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Most natural history books provide information in a straightforward, expository style. This work is circuitous, humorous, and often profane. (For example, the distraction display, when birds slink away faking a broken wing to try to lead an intruder from their nest, is described as the "crippled bird act, or giving the big bad wolf the old WAZOO.") Because of Slinger's informal (to say the least) style, readers may not realize that his ribald, rambling book actually contains a pretty solid overview of birding, albeit often in rather hit-or-miss fashion. Chapters touch on birders, bird behavior, bird parts, identification, and ten prime birding locations; a miscellaneous chapter called "Deep Background" defies categorization. Anyone who would enjoy reading about nature as it might be related by a standup comedian or glib talk-show host will enjoy this often hilarious book, but for most it would seem an optional purchase.Henry T. Armistead, Free Lib. of Philadelphia

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