A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird - Softcover

Mosco, Rosemary

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9781523511341: A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1523511346 ISBN 13: 9781523511341
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, 2021

Synopsis

Part field guide, part history, part ornithology primer, and altogether fun.

Fact: Pigeons are amazing, and until recently, humans adored them. We’ve kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over battlefields, harvested their poop to fertilize our crops—and cooked them in gourmet dishes. Now, with The Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching, readers can rediscover the wonder. Equal parts illustrated field guide and quirky history, it covers behavior: Why they coo; how they flock; how they preen, kiss, and mate (monogamously); and how they raise their young (on chunky pigeon milk). Anatomy and identification, from Birmingham Roller to the American Giant Runt to the Scandaroon. Birder issues, like what to do if you find a baby pigeon stranded in the park. And our lively shared story together, including all the things we’ve taught them—Ping-Pong, for example. “Rats with wings?” Think again.
Pigeons coo, peck and nest all over the world, yet most of us treat them with indifference or disdain. So Rosemary Mosco, a bird-lover, science communicator, writer, and cartoonist (and co-author of The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid) is here to give the pigeon's image a makeover, and to help every town- and city-dweller get closer to nature by discovering the joys of birding through pigeon-watching.
 

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About the Author

Rosemary Mosco is a science communicator, acclaimed cartoonist, and speaker on all things bird. She has written and drawn for The New York Times, Audubon, and elsewhere, and she is the author of A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching and co-author ofTheAtlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid. She lives in Massachusetts.

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Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1523511346
ISBN 13 
9781523511341
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
240
Rating
  • 4.42 out of 5 stars
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