A season on the wind inside the world of spring migration
"A close look at one season in one key site that reveals the amazing science and magic of spring bird migration, and the perils of human encroachment"--
| Main Author: | Kaufman, Kenn (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: pilgrims at the gates of sunrise
- The first migration
- Wilderness and waterfowl
- A broken season
- An ill wind
- Turning point
- Wild march
- Creatures of light
- Sifting the mysterious sky
- Threading the needle
- This slice of sky
- Second wind
- Waiting for warblers
- Boardwalk people
- The first big wave
- The biggest week
- The impossible peak
- The parade's gone by
- Pagans of the sky.