Glimpses of Bird Life Alexander Dawes Du Bois
1974; Oxford University Press; Volume: 91; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/4084501
ISSN1938-4254
Autores Tópico(s)American Environmental and Regional History
Resumoreports of them most accurately in simple language and a fine unpretentious style.He also gets down from his tractor near the town of Albert Lea in southern Minnesota to take his readers on field trips to other parts of the state and memory excursions into his youth.I particularly enjoyed what he had to say about hawks and owls.It is so refreshing to find a farmer who does not condemn all birds of prey.His accounts of the birds of the fields and woods made me feel as thought I ought to go and buy a tractor and a plow to get his view of the world.I liked his tale of the baking soda bird cards and one in which a young minister came to bird watch on his farm and went with him for a tractor ride on which Flugum added Brewer's Blackbird to the preacher's life list.All in all, this book gives one a pleasant view of the birds of Minnesota, and it's much easier to hold than Thomas S. Roberts' ponderous tomes.I wish Mr.Flugum had included an index as well as a table of contents so one could look up a bird and find every mention of it by page.-
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