Living on the Wind

Living on the Wind is a magisterial work of nature writing from author Scott Weidensaul.

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 nonstop across the Pacific from Alaska to New Zealand, and myriad songbirds whose numbers have dwindled so dramatically in recent decades. Migration paths form an elaborate global web that shows serious signs of fraying, and Weidensaul delves into the tragedies of habitat degradation and deforestation with an urgency that brings to life the vast problems these miraculous migrants now face.

Southbound.- Beringia.- A Far-Flung Tapestry.- The Way South.- Riding the Sea Wind.- Rivers of Hawks.- Hiatus.- La Selva Maya.- Hopping Dick and Betsy Kick-Up.- Aguilucheros.- When Anywhere is Better than Home.- Uneasy Neighbors.- Northbound.- The Gulf Express.- Heartland.- Hopscotch.- Catching the Wave.- Trouble in the Woods.- Afterword.