{"product_id":"cheyenne-bird-banter-25-years-of-bird-and-birdwatching-news-9780999294574","title":"Cheyenne Bird Banter: 25 Years of Bird and Birdwatching News","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Barb Gorges\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Barbara Ann Gorges, DBA Yucca Road Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Barbara Ann Gorges, DBA Yucca Road Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A compendium of local and national bird news but also a backdoor look at a family's outdoor memories, Barb Gorges has compiled 25 years of her Wyoming Tribune Eagle \"Bird Banter\" columns, plus a few Roadside Attractions and other writing in \"Cheyenne Bird Banter: 25 years of Bird and Birdwatching News.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Watch how the digital age creeps into the birdwatching community. First, it's a listserv taking the place of the phone number for reporting rare birds in Wyoming. Then it's eBird, a place to make personal bird observations available to scientists. And then it's Merlin, technology in a phone app to help identify birds by sight and song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The academics and other speakers Barb meets while programming talks for Cheyenne-High Plains Audubon Society, in the space of a year (but who can remember what year), switch from carousel slide projector to laptop PowerPoint shows. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Scientists adopt bird tracking techniques that as the technology shrinks, can be fitted on smaller and smaller birds, getting a clearer picture of where they go. But at the same time, Barb documents more and more human intrusions into bird safety.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Leavening this collection are stories: the bird family drama playing outside the kitchen window, the antics of Hootie the rehabilitated red-breasted nuthatch, the hidden house sparrow nest that could have started a house fire, the rosy-finches that can only nest on cliff faces at high elevation and attract researchers risking life and limb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Running throughout like warp threads are the annual bird counts: the Thanksgiving Bird Count, Christmas Bird Count, Great Backyard Bird Count, Cheyenne Big Day Bird Count and the winter-long Project FeederWatch. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Finally, \"Bird Banter\" is about wild birds, and the people who love them. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46363600257175,"sku":"9780999294574","price":3486.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/cheyenne-bird-banter-25-years-of-bird-and-birdwatching-news-9780999294574","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}