Full name: Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds

Author: Scott Weidensaul Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Animals, Science Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780865475915 0865475911

Bird migration is the world's only true unifying natural phenomenon, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems fail to do. Scott Weidensaul follows awesome kettles of hawks over the Mexican coastal plains, bar-tailed godwits that hitchhike on gale winds 7,000 miles nonstop across the Pacific from Alaska to New Zealand, and myriad songbirds whose numbers have dwindled so dramatically 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. Living on the Wind is a magisterial work of nature writing. Similar books: Songbird Journeys by Miyoko Chu Birds Britannica by Mark Cocker The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior by David Allen Sibley The Bird by Colin Tudge Lives of North American Birds by Kenn Kaufman Mrs Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names by Stephen Moss The Life of Birds by David Attenborough On the Wing by Alan Tennant The Thing with Feathers by Noah Strycker The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America by David Allen Sibley Birdology by Sy Montgomery Tales of a low-rent birder by Pete Dunne Corvus by Esther Woolfson The Grail Bird by Tim Gallagher Advanced Birding by Kenn Kaufman The Warbler Guide by Tom Stephenson National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America by National Geographic Society For the Love of a Dog by Patricia B. McConnell Ravens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich Down from the Mountain by Bryce Andrews