Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #394937 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Synopsis
Scott Weidensaul follows 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 the Myriad Songbirds whose numbers have dwindled so dramatically in recent years.

Customer Reviews

stunningly beautiful book, a bonus for bird watchers anywher
Scott Weidensaul has a knack for enchanting readers with his marvelous descriptions of bird migrations throughout the hemisphere. We follow him contentedly on his extensive travels and meetings (human and aviary), we worry with him for ecosystem loss and endangered species, and yet we are awed like him by the sheer beauty and unimaginable strength of birds flying around the world. I only wish he would write another book about the eastern hemisphere!

a fascinating,readable book on migration
not just another dry tome, but hard to stop reading for an almost eighty birder with sixty five years of pleasure in looking. and seeing, and marveling at the wonder of migration. Scott Wiedensaul has handed a genuine nugget to birders everywhere.

eye opening account of the secret journeys of birds
Came across this by accident in a bookshop in LA and was immediately enchanted. The author knows his subject intimately and writes with a genuine depth of knowledge and passion. Next time I hear the flutter of wings passing in the night I'll have a little more respect. A revealing, absorbing and finely researched account.