Table of Contents

• Preface
• I. Earth: Stray Feathers in the Dust
  • Sacred Places and the Voices of Ancestors
  • Dawn Rendezvous on the Lek
  • The Elusive Tree Quails of Mexico
  • Quail Music
  • On Display: The Pheasants
  • Bustards: Stalkers of the Dry Plains
  • Glittering Garments of the Rainbow
• II. Water: A River of Time
  • Adrift in Time on the Niobrara River
  • The Evolution of Duck Courtship
  • The Elusive Musk Duck
  • The Unlikely Ruddy Duck
  • Torrent Ducks of the Andes
  • Seabirds of the Pribilofs
• III. Sky: Migrations of the Imagination
  • The Gifts of the Cranes
  • Flight of the Sea Ducks
  • The Triumphant Trumpeters
  • The 6,000-mile Odyssey of a Globe-trotting Bird
  • Where Have All the Curlews Gone?
  • The Geese from beyond the North Wind
• Suggested Readings
• Citations for Previously Published Articles
• Index

About the Author

Paul Johnsgard is a Foundation Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.