Birds of an Iowa DooryardNow 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. |
Contents
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I Watching the Birds of Our Dooryard | 23 |
II Feeding Winter Birds | 32 |
III The Home Life of the Chimney Swift | 40 |
IV Birds Near at Hand | 62 |
V The Phoebe | 89 |
X Eleven Days in the Life of a Catbird | 139 |
XI The Strange Flycatcher | 149 |
XII The Nest Life of the Sparrow Hawk | 152 |
XIII Nest Life of the Screech Owl | 167 |
XIV Down with the House Wren Boxes | 184 |
XV The Old Ornithology and the New | 196 |
XVI Experiments in Feeding Hummingbirds during Seven Summers | 207 |
XVII Are Birds Decreasing in Numbers? | 223 |
VI The Nest Life of the Western House Wren | 100 |
VII The Cuckoos | 115 |
VIII Habits of the Shortbilled Marsh Wren | 121 |
IX Notes on the Rails | 133 |
XVIII At the Sign of the Northern Flicker | 237 |
A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Althea R Sherman | 266 |
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Common terms and phrases
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