This week, Mark takes up Flight Lines: Tracking the Wonders of Bird Migration, “a joint initiative between the BTO and the Society of Wildlife Artists which celebrates and documents the wonders of bird migration, the birds that do the migration, the places they visit through the year and the scientists who unravel its details” by Mark Toms of the British Trust for Ornithology.
In Darryl McGrath’s new book “Flight Paths; A Field Journal of Hope, Heartbreak, and Miracles with New York’s Bird People,” published under the State University of New York Press’ Excelsior Editions imprint, the story of how teams of biologists worked to stabilize and eventually restore the populations of these birds is interwoven with the challenges to, and efforts being taken on behalf of, four other threatened bird species to yield what is described as “engaging” and “compelling” by early reviewers.
Birds do it. Bees do it. As for educated fleas… well, I’m not so sure. But I do know that bats do it and that Pterodactyls did. Fly, of course. An advance reading copy of David E. Alexander’s forthcoming book On the Wing: Insects, Pterosaurus, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight arrived from Oxford […]
Over the twenty-four years since the publication of Clay Sutton, Pete Dunne, and David Sibley’s Hawks in Flight back in 1988, it has become just short of holy scripture for all those wishing to learn how effectively to identify airborne raptors in North America – particularly those seen at a great distance. Now, nearly a quarter […]