North on the wing
Subtitle: travels with the songbird migration of spring
By: Bruce M. Beehler ; illustrations by John T. Anderton
Contributors: Anderton, John T., illustrator
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781588346131
Subjects: Birds; Migration
Description: In 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo backroads journey to trace the spring migration of songbirds from the southern border of the United States through the U.S. heartland and north into Canada. Traveling via car, canoe, bike, and on foot, Beehler followed migrant wood warblers and other songbirds from the Texas coast, up the Mississippi drainage to its headwaters in Minnesota and onward to the birds' nesting grounds in the north woods of Ontario. Engaging readers in the wonders of the spring migration, this book is a call to conserve, restore, and expand bird habitats to preserve them for the well-being of future generations of both birds and humans.
Notes: Maps on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Wood warblers of Eastern North America: a life list; title: Introduction; title: Birds of spring; title: The Texas Gulf Coast: first landfall; title: The coastal oak woods of Texas and Louisiana: migrant magnets; title: The low country of Louisiana and Mississippi; title: Piney woods and cypress swamps; title: From the confluence to the headwaters; title: The mysterious northlands; title: Great Lakes country; title: Adirondack spring; title: Epilogue.