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Christian Science Monitor Calls for Endangered Species Hour

Critter News

They’ve had to earn degrees in economics and sociology to learn to marry their causes with the human one – explaining, for instance, that humans depend on bats to pollinate or on coral reefs to support other marine life that is advantageous to mankind.

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Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Shearwaters and Fulmar are “like stiff-winged gulls, with tubular nostrils, often in flocks, glide easily”, Storm-Petrels are “tiny birds, like bats or swallows” that “fly low over the sea” and Phalaropes are “small sandpipers that swim, often in flocks.” The book says nothing about photographing marine life; I highly recommend it.).

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