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Title: What Bird Did That?: A Driver's Guide to Some Common Birds of North America by Peter Hansard, Burton Silver ISBN: 0-89815-427-8 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: October, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: one-trick pony, but a very amusing trick
Comment: This is a short guidebook to birds with its smart tongue planted deep in its cheek. It's copiously illustrated with photographs of bird droppings (splays) on car windshields and instructions on how to tell what
species of bird they came from. As the authors say: "A knowledge of each splay is essential to fully describe and understand the variations in ornithological dejecta." It's largely by taking the subject exactly
that faux seriously, but then subverting it with the choice of topic and some very funny invented vocabulary, that they elicit laughs. Here, for instance, is one of their terms of art and its definition:

audibon: Soft sound made by avian dejecta as it strikes a windshield and forms a splay. Audi (l) sound, bon (fr) good, literally, good sound.

The book's kind of a one-trick pony, but a very amusing trick.

GRADE: B+

Rating: 5
Summary: VERY FUNNY - TERRIFIC GIFT BOOK
Comment: I'd never heard of this book (1991) til 2001. It's incredibly funny. Written in a pseudo-audobon style, each page has a perky 1x1" picture of the species of interest, and a sharp, color 4x4" photo of its supposed bird splat. (whether globby, loose, white, gray, yellow, small, large, starburst-like, etc). Very very funny.

Rating: 5
Summary: Great book
Comment: This is a great book and has a great web site too, at, http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk./~design.machine-tanya/ Good book! Great site!

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