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| Preface | ||
| Pt. 1 | Southbound | |
| 1 | Beringia | 5 |
| 2 | A Far-flung Tapestry | 29 |
| 3 | The Way South | 57 |
| 4 | Riding the Sea Wind | 81 |
| 5 | Rivers of Hawks | 105 |
| Pt. 2 | Hiatus | |
| 6 | La Selva Maya | 129 |
| 7 | Hopping Dick and Betsy Kick-up | 153 |
| 8 | Aguilucheros | 173 |
| 9 | When Anywhere Is Better than Home | 197 |
| 10 | Uneasy Neighbors | 221 |
| Pt. 3 | Northbound | |
| 11 | The Gulf Express | 249 |
| 12 | Heartland | 275 |
| 13 | Hopscotch | 303 |
| 14 | Catching the Wave | 323 |
| 15 | Trouble in the Woods | 345 |
| Afterword | 371 | |
| Notes and Bibliography | 375 | |
| Acknowledgments | 399 | |
| Index | 403 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
Scott Sundstrom
reviewed Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds on April 06, 2012
Living on the Wind
Sobering.
Birds fly south for the winter. We've all known that since we were kids.
With numerous examples, Weidensaul lets us know just how marvelous and complicated this seemingly simple act of bird behavior is to perform, season after season; a survival strategy that has evolved over thousands and thousands of years. His story of the red knot alone is mind-altering in its wonderment, a precisely timed journey from the southern tip of South America to the North American Arctic.
The author spends the first 95 percent of the book relating Herculean stories of avian migration, even tales of species that spend just about all of their lives moving place to place, always living on the wind. And then he drops the hammer, letting us know in the last few pages just how it might soon will all come to an end.
Weidensual, a great lover of birds, must have written the final pages with a heavy laden heart.
As I said, "sobering!"
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