The Verb 'To Bird': Sightings of an Avid Birder

Very good used paperback. Previous owner's blind stamp on title page.

Written by an English teacher / birder, this is a whimsical and critical book about birds, birders, language, literature, and the human race.

Cashwell lovingly but irreverently explores the practice of birding, from choosing a field guide to luring vultures out of shrubbery, and gives his own eclectic travelogue of some of the nation's finest bird habitats. Part memoir, part natural history, part apology, The Verb 'To Bird' will enlighten and entertain anyone who's ever wandered around wet fields at the crack of dawn with dog-eared field guides crushed against the granola bars in their pockets.