Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
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Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds
EN USISBN: 0865475431 bzw. 9780865475434, in Englisch, North Point Press, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd.
biological sciences,birds,birdwatching,field guides,nature and ecology,ornithology,science and math,sports and outdoors,zoology, Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, Did you know that neither temperature nor hunger sparks bird migration? That many species migrate at night? That some birds migrate more than 5,000 miles in a single, uninterrupted flight? "We are such stodgy, rooted creatures," observes the author of this fascinating book. "To think of crossing thousands of miles under our own power is as incomprehensible as jumping the moon. Yet even the tiniest of birds perform such miracles." For anyone curious about the lives of migratory birds (and, incidentally, those of bird-obsessed humans), this book is a great nest of information. The author has traveled all over the world banding and observing birds and talking to the experts--amateur birders and ornithologists who have made many of the important discoveries about bird biology. From Alaska to Lake Erie to the limestone forests of Jamaica, Weidensaul reaches not only for the scientific particulars but for the universal stories and humanizing, descriptive turns of phrase that keep this book from bogging down in statistics and jargon. By book's end the reader is unable to resist the heart of this compelling story, a plea for the conservation of habitat to keep these miraculous creatures on--or at least circling--the earth. --Maria Dolan.
biological sciences,birds,birdwatching,field guides,nature and ecology,ornithology,science and math,sports and outdoors,zoology, Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, Did you know that neither temperature nor hunger sparks bird migration? That many species migrate at night? That some birds migrate more than 5,000 miles in a single, uninterrupted flight? "We are such stodgy, rooted creatures," observes the author of this fascinating book. "To think of crossing thousands of miles under our own power is as incomprehensible as jumping the moon. Yet even the tiniest of birds perform such miracles." For anyone curious about the lives of migratory birds (and, incidentally, those of bird-obsessed humans), this book is a great nest of information. The author has traveled all over the world banding and observing birds and talking to the experts--amateur birders and ornithologists who have made many of the important discoveries about bird biology. From Alaska to Lake Erie to the limestone forests of Jamaica, Weidensaul reaches not only for the scientific particulars but for the universal stories and humanizing, descriptive turns of phrase that keep this book from bogging down in statistics and jargon. By book's end the reader is unable to resist the heart of this compelling story, a plea for the conservation of habitat to keep these miraculous creatures on--or at least circling--the earth. --Maria Dolan.
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Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
EN HC NWISBN: 9780865475434 bzw. 0865475431, in Englisch, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, gebundenes Buch, neu.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd.
Living-on-the-Wind~~Weidensaul, Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, Hardcover.
Living-on-the-Wind~~Weidensaul, Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, Hardcover.
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