From the rear cover
Each May for fifteen consecutive years, Charles R. Brown has trekked to the Cedar Point Biological Station in western Nebraska to learn more about the behavior of colonial cliff swallows. He, his wife, and several student assistants spend the summers observing, catching, and banding swallows to determine life span, migration patterns, and nesting habits. Why study one species of swallow for fifteen years? With Swallow Summer Brown answers all the tourists, highway patrolmen, and local residents who have asked why he was leaning over bridges with nets, wading in mud up to his knees, or staring fixedly into culverts, where swallows often build their mud nests. He finds these birds fascinating. This book is about a passion for birds, but it is also about the personal challenges of scientific research. Brown provides a daily chronicle of field work at Cedar Point - including the joy of holding a swallow that has returned to the same site for eleven years and the inevitable frictions between researchers and local residents.
Details
- Title Swallow Summer
- Author Charles R. Brown
- Binding Paperback
- Edition F
- Pages 377
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska
- Date 1998-08-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780803261457 / 0803261454
- Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 8.94 x 5.98 x 0.8 in (22.71 x 15.19 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Plains
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Nebraska
- Library of Congress subjects Social behavior in animals, Hirundo pyrrhonota - Nebraska
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98004551
- Dewey Decimal Code 598.826
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 07/01/1998, Page 1843
- Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/1998, Page 863
- Library Journal, 07/01/1998, Page 129
- Publishers Weekly, 06/22/1998, Page 75
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