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Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird
NOOK Book(eBook)
Overview
Taking the reader from the mountains of Appalachia to a coffee plantation near Bogotá, Colombia, this investigation into the plight of the cerulean warblera tiny migratory songbirddescribes its struggle to survive in ever-shrinking bands of suitable habitat. This elusive creaturea favorite among bird watchers and the fastest-declining warbler species in the United Stateshas lost three percent of its total population each year since 1966. This precipitous decline means that today there are 80 percent fewer ceruleans than 40 years ago, and their numbers continue to drop because of threats including deforestation, global warming, and mountaintop-removal coal mining. With scientific rigor and a sense of wonder, Fallon charts their path across more than 2000 miles and shows how the fate of a creature weighing less than an ounce is vitally linked to that of our own.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780983011156 |
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Publisher: | Ruka Press |
Publication date: | 10/18/2011 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 224 |
File size: | 6 MB |
About the Author
Katie Fallon has had nonfiction pieces in a variety of magazines and journals, including Appalachian Heritage, Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing, and River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. Her essay “Lost,” published in The Fourth River, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2008. She teaches creative writing at West Virginia University. She lives in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Table of Contents
Interpreters of Cerulean Tom Will viii
Introduction 1
Spring
Pioneers 9
Under the Open Sky 17
Cerulean Blues 26
Sanctuary 37
Afield 48
Up Close and Personal 56
Ceruleomorphizing 69
Made in the Shade 78
Almost Level 86
Almost Heaven 97
Summer
Cumberland Gap 113
Empty Nests 120
Fledging 133
Long journeys 144
The Only Risk is Wanting to Stay 151
San Vicente de Chucuri 159
The Sky-Blue Little Queen 171
Full Circle 187
Epilogue: Help Save the Cerulean Warbler 191
Bibliography: Works Cited or Consulted 195
Acknowledgements 201
About the Author 205
Index 206