Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Headaches? by Mike O'Connor - ISBN: 9780807085745
Paperback
Suitable for the beginning birder, this work explains the subtle and ill-defined variation between Common and Ruddy Ground Doves. It also reveals why birds sing at 4:30 am rather than 7:00 am, or whether it’s ok to feed bread to birds, or how birds seem to rediscover your feeders when you’ve just fi…

Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Headaches?

And Other Bird Questions You Know You Want to Ask

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2018

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Summary

In 1983, Mike O’Connor opened the Bird Watcher’s General Store on Cape Cod, which might well have been the first store devoted solely to birding in the United States. Since that time he has answered thousands of questions about birds, both at his store and while walking down the aisles of the supermarket. The questions have ranged from inquiries about individual species (“Are flamingos really real?”) to what and when to feed birds (“Should I bring in my feeders for the summer?”) to the down-a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780807085745
ISBN-10:080708574X
Author:Mike O'Connor
Publisher:Beacon Press
Imprint:Beacon Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Edition:1st
Release Date:1 September 2018
Weight:272g
Dimensions:216mm x 139mm x 15mm
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Critics Review

“Mike O’Connor knows birds—I mean, REALLY knows them. He can deliver the straight scoop with a hilarious twist that makes it unforgettable. Reading this book is almost as much fun as bird watching, and that’s saying a lot!“—Kenn Kaufman, author of the Kaufman Field Guide to the Birds of North America

About The Author

Mike O'Connor

Mike O’Connor is the owner of Bird Watcher’s General Store on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. His column, “Ask the Bird Folks,” appears in the Cape Coddernewspaperand his writing has been included in Good Birders Don’t Wear White and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004. The author of Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get Headaches? and Why Do Bluebirds Hate Me?, he lives in Orleans, Massachusetts, where, try as he may, he cannot entice even a single bluebird to come to his yard.

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