• 秃鹰:世界上最不被爱的鸟
  • Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird
  • 作者:Katie Fallon
  • 出版社代理人:Brandeis University Press(美国)
  • 出版时间:2020年8月
  • 页数:256页
  • 已售版权:
  • 版权联系人:tina@peonyliteraryagency.com
内容介绍


市面上有很少比秃鹰更被憎恨,名誉比秃鹰更遭的动物。但为什么人们这么讨厌秃鹰?作者Katie Fallon在这本书中希望能反转人们的影响。她花了一年的时间观察、研究、记录北美伙计秃鹰的正常生活。火鸡秃鹰是地球上最广泛分布,数量最多的觅食猛禽类,从加拿大中部到阿根廷南部都能看见它们。作者参考了最新的科学发现、不同报导以及专家的访问,再加上自己的生动自然科学文笔,带着我们进入秃鹰的秘密生活。从繁殖、孵蛋、养雏、迁徙和栖息,我们看到了秃鹰的一生。看完这本书,你会重新看待秃鹰,这个不被喜爱、不被尊重的鸟类。


好评:

Through thorough research, interviews, and firsthand experience, Fallon establishes unquestionable credibility; however, it is her own narrative writing and descriptive skills that make Vulture a book that is not only educational and inspiring, but readable and entertaining.

--The Los Angeles Review


This enthusiastic volume nicely proves that Turkey Vultures are spokesbirds for vultures and indicates new avenues for raptor studies in a rapidly changing world. This book should be on the shelves of ecologists, ornithologists, and conservationists.

—Conservation Biology


Through thorough research, interviews, and firsthand experience, Fallon establishes unquestionable credibility; however, it is her own narrative writing and descriptive skills that make Vulture a book that is not only educational and inspiring, but readable and entertaining.

—The Los Angeles Review


Fallon truly loves these skillful gliders, and she hopes that readers will see the light. Every time I’ve seen a vulture this year, this book has come to mind, so I guess I’m hooked.

—The Exponent Telegram


Fallon’s personal accounts of her field experiences are engrossing and entertaining. . . . Recommended.

—CHOICE


This book is about vultures in the human world, but nowhere in the story does the human aspect overly intrude. The great birds are front-and-center, consistently painted in a positive and empathetic light. It is to Fallon’s credit that she is able to coax the reader into the same love affair with vultures that she herself enjoys, without romanticizing her subject to the point of putting off her audience.

—Sense of the Misplaced


As highly readable as it is fact-filled. . . . [Vulture’s] biggest strength might be how Fallon manages to share her empathy for these birds without romanticizing them.

—Journal of Appalachian Studies


Entertaining, well-researched. . . . [Fallon] displays great passion and enthusiasm yet writes knowingly and dispassionately on the science of her subject in an engaging, literary style.

—Library Journal, starred review


... an excellent quick read, suitable not only for bird lovers and naturalists but for anyone with a bit of natural curiosity and an inclination to root for the common, the misunderstood, and the underdog.

—Birding Magazine


关于作者:

Katie Fallon is co-founder of the Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia, a nonprofit research, education, and rehabilitation center for injured birds. A member of the International Association of Avian Trainers and Educators, she has glove-trained a wide variety of raptor species, including turkey vultures, hawks, owls, and falcons. She is the author, previously, of Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird. She lives in West Virginia with her family of human and birds.