Selected Bibliography
Abbott, Clinton G. The Home-Life of the Osprey. London: Witherby & Co., 1911.
Audubon, John James. The Birds of America. New York: Macmillan, 1937.
Bent, Arthur Cleveland. Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey. New York: Dover, 1937.
Berry, Wendell. Recollected Essays. New York: North Point Press, 1981.
Brown, Leslie, and Dean Amadon. Eagles, Hawks and Falcons of the World. Vols. I and II. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.
Brown, Philip, and George Waterson. The Return of the Osprey. London: Collins, 1962.
Burton, Maurice. The Sixth Sense of Animals. New York: Taplinger, 1972.
Carpenteri, Stephen D. Osprey: The Fish Hawk. Minnetonka, MN: North Word Press, 1997.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
Coon, Carleton. The Story of Man. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.
Dalton, Stephen. The Miracle of Flight. Buffalo: Firefly Books, 1999.
Davis, Burke. Biography of a Fish Hawk. New York: Putnam, 1977.
Dorst, Jean. The Life of Birds. Vol. I. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974.
Dunford, Fred, and Greg O’Brien. Secrets in the Sand: The Archaeology of Cape Cod. Hyannis: Parnassus Imprints, 1997.
Dunne, Pete. The Wind Masters. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
Dunne, Pete, Debbie Keller, and Rene Kochenberger. Hawk Watch: A Guide for Beginners. Cape May: Cape May Bird Observatory, 1984.
Dunne, Pete, David Sibley, and Clay Sutton. Hawks in Flight: The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.
Elder, John. Imagining the Earth: Poetry and the Vision of Nature. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
Eliade, Mircea. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964.
Forbush, E. H. Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States. Amherst: Massachusetts Department of Agriculture, 1927.
Guss, David Μ. The Language of the Birds. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985.
Hay, John. The Bird of Light. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
Hay, John. Nature’s Year: The Seasons of Cape Cod. New York: An Audubon/Ballantine Book, 1961.
Jeffers, Robinson. Selected Poems. New York: Random House, 1963.
Knight, C. W. R. “Photographing the Nest Life of the Osprey.” National Geographic, vol. 62 (1932): 247–60.
Kurtén, Björn. Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Lanyon, Wesley E. Biology of Birds. Garden City: Natural History Press, 1964.
Leahy, Christopher. The Birdwatcher’s Companion. New York: Bonanza Books, 1982.
Lear, Linda. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. New York: Henry Holt, 1997.
Mercatante, Anthony S. Zoo of the Gods: Animals in Myth, Legend and Fable. New York: Harper and Row, 1974.
Nigg, Joe. Wonder Beasts: Tales and Lore of the Phoenix, the Griffin, the Unicorn, and the Dragon. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1995.
Pearson, Gilbert, ed. Birds of America. Garden City: Garden City Publishers, 1936.
Peterson, Roger Tory. The Birds. New York: Time, 1963.
Poole, Alan. Ospreys: A Natural and Unnatural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Price, Anders. “The Osprey.” Kalakotkas.com. This Web site is particularly helpful regarding the osprey in literature.
Puleston, Dennis. Blue Water Vagabond. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1939.
Richardson, Robert D. Emerson: The Mind on Fire. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Roberts, Mervin F. The Tidemarsh Guide. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979.
Rogers, Marion Lane. Acorn Days: The Environmental Defense Fund and How It Grew. New York: Environmental Defense Fund, 1990.
Sanders, Scott Russell. Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.
Schlaer, Robert. “An Eagle’s Eye: Quality of Retinal Image.” Science, vol. 176 (May 1972).
Short, Lester L. The Lives of Birds: Birds of the World and Their Behavior. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1993.
Skutch, Alexander. The Minds of Birds. College Station: Texas A & Μ University Press, 1996.
Snyder, Gary. The Old Ways. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1977.
Snyder, Helen, and Noel Snyder. Raptors. Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 1991.
Teal, John, and Mildred Teal. Life and Death of a Salt Marsh. New York: Ballantine, 1969.
Thomson, A. Landsborough. A New Dictionary of Birds. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.
Thoreau, Henry David. The Maine Woods. 1864. New Haven: College and University Press, 1965.
Turner, Jack. The Abstract Wild. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.
Van Tyne, Josselyn, and Andrew Berger. Fundamentals of Ornithology. New York: Dover Publications, 1971.
Wilson, E. O. In Search of Nature. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1996.