Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds as Gowin fosters awareness for

as Gowin fosters awareness for a part of nature that is generally left unobserved and calls for a greater awareness of the biodiversity and value of the tropics as a universally shared natural treasure

as well as an updated Annotated Checklist of Birds briefly describing the status and distribution of all birds that have been recorded in the state

Includes a map of Alaska's six biogeographic regions and a comprehensive checklist

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Catherine McClung

Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds as Gowin fosters awareness forA riveting account of the remarkable phenomenon of bird migration in the New World based on the author's own research, observations, and travels. Bird migration is the world's only true unifying natural phenomenon, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems fail to do. Scott Weidensaul follows awesome kettles of hawks over the Mexican coastal plains, bar tailed godwits that hitchhike on gale winds 7,000 miles