Moonbird : a year on the wind with the great survivor B95 / Phillip Hoose.

Author/creator Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2012.
Description148 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Super bird (profile: Clive Minton) -- The Flight machine (profile: Patricia Gonzalez) -- Showdown at Delaware Bay (profile: Brian Harrington) -- Twinkling and trapping -- The Arctic breeding grounds (profile: Amanda Dey) -- Mingan: the bellwether site (profile: Guy Morrison and Ken Ross) -- Southbound: closing the circuit -- Extinction is forever (profile: Mike Hudson) -- Appendix : What you can do.
Abstract Documents the survival tale of an intrepid shorebird who has endured annual migrations between Argentina and the Canadian Arctic throughout the course of a long lifetime while his species continues to decline.
Local noteLittle-305131062115S
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [133]-135) and index.
LCCN 2011035612
ISBN9780374304683 (hc)
ISBN0374304688 (hc)