One in five people in the United States is a birder, yet the popular understanding of birders reduces them to comical stereotypes. For the Birds offers readers a glimpse behind the binoculars and reveals birders to be important allies in the larger environmental conservation movement.

ELIZABETH CHERRY is an associate professor of sociology at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. She is the author of Culture and Activism: Animal Rights in France and the United States.  

 

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1          Becoming a Birder
2          The Naturalist Gaze
3          Common Birds and the Social Construction of Nature
4          Wilderness, Wildness, and Mobility
5          Good Birds, Bad Birds, and Animal Agency
6          Birding and Citizen Science
7          Birding as a Conservation Movement
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index