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Beehler, Bruce McP., author.
Anderton, John T., illustrator.
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Birds -- Migration -- United States.
Nature -- Animals -- Birds.
Nature -- Ecosystems & Habitats.
Science -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Ornithology.
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North on the wing : travels with the songbird migration of spring / Bruce M. Beehler ; illustrations by John T. Anderton.
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Beehler, Bruce McP., author.
, Anderton, John T., illustrator.
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [2018]
Description:
x, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Contents:
Wood warblers of Eastern North America: a life list -- Introduction -- Birds of spring -- The Texas Gulf Coast: first landfall -- The coastal oak woods of Texas and Louisiana: migrant magnets -- The low country of Louisiana and Mississippi -- Piney woods and cypress swamps -- From the confluence to the headwaters -- The mysterious northlands -- Great Lakes country -- Adirondack spring -- Epilogue.
Summary:
In 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo backroads journey to trace the spring migration of songbirds from the southern border of the United States through the U.S. heartland and north into Canada. Traveling via car, canoe, bike, and on foot, Beehler followed migrant wood warblers and other songbirds from the Texas coast, up the Mississippi drainage to its headwaters in Minnesota and onward to the birds' nesting grounds in the north woods of Ontario. Engaging readers in the wonders of the spring migration, this book is a call to conserve, restore, and expand bird habitats to preserve them for the well-being of future generations of both birds and humans.
In late March 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo four-month trek to track songbird migration and the northward progress of spring through America. Traveling via car, canoe, and bike and on foot, Beehler followed woodland warblers and other Neotropical songbird species from the southern border of Texas, where the birds first arrive after their winter sojourns in South America and the Caribbean, northward through the Mississippi drainage to its headwaters in Minnesota and onward to their nesting grounds in the north woods of Ontario. In North on the Wing, Beehler describes both the epic migration of songbirds across the country and the gradual dawning of springtime through the U.S. heartland--the blossoming of wildflowers, the chorusing of frogs, the leafing out of forest canopies--and also tells the stories of the people and institutions dedicated to studying and conserving the critical habitats and processes of spring songbird migration. Inspired in part by Edwin Way Teale's landmark 1951 book North with the Spring, this book--part travelogue, part field journal, and part environmental and cultural history--is a fascinating first-hand account of a once-in-a-lifetime journey.
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Nonfiction.
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Maps on endpapers.
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2018
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