Mist clouded my glasses, and a breeze lashed the long, coarse grass on the steep bluff where I sat.
An edition of Living on the Wind
(1999)
Living on the wind
across the globe with migratory birds
by Scott Weidensaul
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Bird migration is the one truly unifying natural phenomenon in the world, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems, which roar out from the poles but fizzle at the equator, fail to do.
Scott Weidensaul follows the awesome kettles of hawks over the Mexican coastal plains, the bar-tailed godwits that hitchhike on gale winds 6,000 miles nonstop across the Pacific from Alaska to New Zealand, and the myriad songbirds whose numbers have dwindled so drastically in recent decades.
Migration paths form an elaborate global web that shows serious signs of fraying, and Weidensaul delves into the tragedies of habitat degradation and deforestation with an urgency that brings to life the vast problems these miraculous migrants now face.
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Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds
April 15, 2000, North Point Press
Paperback
in English
- 1st Pbk. Ed edition
0865475911 9780865475915
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Living on the wind: across the globe with migratory birds
1999, North Point Press
in English
0865475431 9780865475434
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Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
April 30, 1999, North Point Press
Hardcover
in English
0865475431 9780865475434
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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