In the opening pages of this historical novel, sixteen-year-old Kate Harding is desperately trying to assist her mother who is about to give premature birth to a child in their home in the small colonial community of Victoria in 1861. The experience is grueling for mother and daughter, and in the end, though a local midwife gets there in time to assist, the baby does not live more than a few hours. It's ironic because Kate's father is one of only...

A successful wild bird rehabilitator's humorous, sometimes serious, always informative take on some exceptional rehabilitated birds. Birds like the Crested Caracara, English Sparrow, Bald Eagle, Painted Bunting, Great Blue Heron, Black Swan, Laughing Gull, Owl, Loggerhead Shrike, Pelicans, Roadrunner, Warblers, Purple Gallinule and many others. Also Rachel gives you a quick education on what to do if you find a bird.

The birds that glide through the sky, hop through the grass, and sing on the fence gradually come to feed from a child's hand.

Cast adrift in 1870s San Francisco after the death of her mother, a girl named Olive disguises herself as a boy and works as a lighthouse keeper's assistant on the Farallon Islands to escape the dangers of a world unkind to young women. In 1941, nomad Victor scours the Sierras searching for refuge from a home to which he never belonged. And in the present day, precocious fifteen year-old Lily struggles, despite her willfulness, to find a place for...

Well-known naturalist and artist Linda Johns shares her woodland home with a menagerie of injured wild birds - starlings, blue jays, pigeons, baby woodpeckers, a rose-breasted grosbeak, a semi-palmated sandpiper, and even a gannet. She and her "saner half," Mack, have gone so far as to transform their living room into an indoor forest, complete with two dead trees providing a variety of perches and a screened porch making do as a practice flyway....

Publisher Annotation: Wild birds are everywhere, from the dry deserts to the icy poles. We see them soaring overhead, paddling across water, flitting through trees, pecking at the ground or our backyard bird feeders and singing from fence posts. Birds contribute to the health of the planet and provide pleasure for millions of people, but wild birds are in trouble. Today, almost 200 bird species are critically endangered. They are threatened by habitat...

This book describes adventures with birds in San Francisco and other places, involving photography, habitat restoration, and rescue attempts. It follows the experiences of a bird lover and naturalist in places that are very wild, and yet are within walking distance of highly urban centers. The life habits of the birds are described, as well as the effect the birds have on the author. The author's study and love of birds led her to volunteer in the...