Birds of an Iowa Dooryard

by Althea R. Sherman, Marcia Myers Bonta (Foreword by)

Overview

Now available in paperback with a new foreword by Marcia Myers Bonta, Birds of an Iowa Dooryard contains Althea Sherman's often caustic, always careful studies of the phoebes, wrens, cuckoos, rails, catbirds, owls, flickers, and many other species that inhabited her Acre of Birds in northern Iowa. Birds of an Iowa Dooryard, first published in 1952, is full of Sherman's meticulous observations of species both avian and human. Her paintings, her notebooks and publications, and her innovative chimney swift tower form a remarkably rich legacy to be valued by naturalists and researchers alike.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587292194
Publisher:	University of Iowa Press
Publication date:	10/01/1996
Series:	Bur Oak Book
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	2 MB

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
The Johnson County Songbird Project Boyle Barbara
Althea Rosina Sherman: Ornithologist of an Iowa Dooryard Bonta Marcia Myers
Editor's Note Pierce Fred f.
Foreword to the 1952 Edition Palas Arthur f.
I. Watching the Birds of Our Dooryard
II. Feeding Winter Birds
III. The Home Life of the Chimney Swift
IV. Birds Near at Hand
V. The Phoebe
VI. The Nest Life of the Western House Wren
VII. The Cuckoos
VIII. Habits of the Short-billed Marsh Wren
IX. Notes on the Rails
X. Eleven Days in the Life of a Catbird
XI. The Strange Flycatcher
XII. The Nest Life of the Sparrow Hawk
XIII. Nest Life of the Screech Owl
XIV. Down with the House Wren Boxes
XV. The Old Ornithology and the New
XVI. Experiments in Feeding Hummingbirds during Seven Summers
XVII. Are Birds Decreasing in Numbers?
XVIII. At the Sign of the Northern Flicker
A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Althea R. Sherman

Editorial Reviews

Though not trained as a scientist, Sherman was a natural ornithologist who studied the lives of the birds in her yard for 48 years, filling 60 notebooks with detailed data on 162 species. This 1952 volume contains many of those observations.

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