Feathered Forest: Aloft with Birds in Ancient Trees

“Luminous.”—Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun

In Feathered Forest, an award-winning nature writer entwines the lives of birds with a hidden vertical world of wild trees.

Beginning with an ascent of a 200-foot-tall Douglas-fir with a bird biologist, author Marina Richie leads us from her home in Central Oregon into the ancient forests of Cascadia, a bioregion which rivals the Amazonian rainforest in significance for climate and biodiversity. Birds are guides to intricate and imperile...