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Citizen bird

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Scenes from bird-life in plain English for beginners

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  • Monograph

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Summary

"Likely the first birding guide for children, Citizen Bird (1897) was a tremendously influential text in Progressive-era America, inspiring in a generation of schoolchildren a love of wild birds and the desire to know more about them and to protect them from extinction. More than a century and a quarter later, Citizen Bird is today little more than a footnote in American environmental history, most often cited in relation to one of its two authors or its illustrator: the naturalist Mabel Osgood Wright, the ornithologist Elliott Coues, and the bird artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes. With a contextualizing introduction, explanatory footnotes, and supplementary historical material in an appendix, this teaching edition of Citizen Bird aims to restore the text to its rightful place not just in the history of birding but also in the broader study of nineteenth-century American culture and literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Overture by the Birds -- The Doctor's Wonder Room -- A Sparrow Settles the Question -- The Building of a Bird -- Citizen Bird -- The Bird as a Traveller -- The Bird's Nest -- Beginning of the Bird Stories -- A Silver-Tongued Family -- Peepers and Creepers -- Mockers and Scolders -- Woodland Warblers -- Around the Old Barn -- The Swallows -- A Brilliant Pair -- A Tribe of Weed Warriors -- A Midsummer Excursion -- Crows and Their Cousins -- A Feathered Fisherman -- Some Sky Sweepers -- Hummers and Chimney Sweeps -- Two Winged Mysteries -- A Laughing Family -- Two Odd Fellows -- Cannibals in Court -- A Cooing Pair -- Three Famous Game Birds -- On the Shore -- Up the River -- Ducks and Drakes -- Gulls and Terns at Home -- Chorus by the Birds -- Procession of Bird Families.

Authorized Access Point

Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934. Citizen bird

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:23:12.080769+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 24022022

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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