Tales of a Low-Rent Birder is a collection of nineteen essays and sketches written between 1977 and 1985. It was originally published in 1986.
Foreword by Roger Tory Peterson
Preface
Preface to the Second Edition
Billy Leeds and the Eagle
Overflight
A Tale of Two Hawkwatchers
Pulling Strings
Bookcase Bluebill
First-Year Bird
The Legend of Jesse Mew
Birdathon '83-A Saab Story
A Lifer for Roger
SVAT
A Peregrine Going South for the First Time Again
Scotch Bonnet Blind
A Gift of Vision
A Confederate Hawkwatcher from AK-625
Shearwater Sunday
Death of a Season
Sitkagi Spring
Macadam Encounter
Thoughts While Waiting for an Ice Falcon
Pete Dunne is director of natural history information for the New Jersey Audubon Society's Cape May Bird Observatory in Cape May Point, New Jersey. A widely published writer on birding, he is also author of The Feather Quest: A North American Birder's Year and Hawks in Flight.
In these tales about birds, birding, and birders, Dunne has captured many of the feelings that make birding special.... Almost any ornithologist or naturalist would enjoy this book.