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Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
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Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds Paperback - 2000

by Scott Weidensaul

In this magisterial work of nature writing, the author delves into the tragedies of habitat degradation and deforestation with an urgency that brings to life the vast problems migratory birds now face. 6 maps.


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Living on the Wind is a magisterial work of nature writing from author Scott Weidensaul. 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.

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Mist clouded my glasses, and a breeze lashed the long, coarse grass on the steep bluff where I sat.

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  • Title Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
  • Author Scott Weidensaul
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher North Point Press, New York
  • Date 2000-04-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780865475915 / 0865475911
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.3 in (21.08 x 14.22 x 3.30 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 598.156

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Citations

  • New York Times, 05/14/2000, Page 42

About the author

Scott Weidensaul is the author of Mountains of the Heart: A Natural History of the Appalachians and other books. A columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, he is also a federally licensed bird bander in the Pennsylvania Appalachians, where he lives.

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