Living on the wind : across the Hemisphere with migratory birds / Scott Weidensaul.
Living on the wind : across the Hemisphere with migratory birds / Scott Weidensaul.
Living on the wind : across the Hemisphere with migratory birds / Scott Weidensaul.
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New York : North Point Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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T0388429
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English
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xii, 420 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1. Southbound. 1. Beringia. 2. A Far-flung Tapestry. 3. The Way South. 4. Riding the Sea Wind. 5. Rivers of Hawks -- Pt. 2. Hiatus. 6. La Selva Maya. 7. Hopping Dick and Betsy Kick-up. 8. Aguilucheros. 9. When Anywhere Is Better than Home. 10. Uneasy Neighbors -- Pt. 3. Northbound. 11. The Gulf...
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New York : North Point Press, 1999.
Edition
1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
1999.
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Summary
Bird migration is the one truly unifying natural phenomenon in the world, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems, which roar out from the poles but fizzle at the equator, fail to do. Scott Weidensaul follows the awesome kettles of hawks over the Mexican coastal plains, the bar-tailed godwits that hitchhike on...
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Living on the wind : across the Hemisphere with migratory birds / Scott Weidensaul.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-398) and index.
Transferred from N598.1568/1.
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T0388429
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0865475431 (alk. paper)
9780865475434 (alk. paper)
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598.1568
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991011355249702626
