| Authors: |
Woolfson, Esther.
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Corvidae.
Human-animal relationships.
Wild birds as pets -- Case studies.
Authors, Scottish -- Biography.
Woolfson, Esther.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2009. |
| Description: |
337 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781582434773 1582434778 |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-321) and index. |
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Originally published: London : Granta Publications, 2008. |
| Contents: |
Beginnings. Before birds ; The doves ; Le jour de gloire ; Madame Chickeboumskaya -- Life with corvids. The hole in the kitchen wall ; The black airts ; Spike ; The pleasure of the bath ; If men had wings-- ; A few ticks of the clock ; Conversations with a magpie on the nature of consciousness -- Bird seasons. Winter ; Spring in the House of Rooks ; Bird music ; Ravens ; Of flight and feathers ; Ziki. |
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