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At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The author, conservation biologist Caroline Fox, is observing the albatross’s shadow to the side of the boat. She doesn’t know the species till it emerges, almost dreamlike, from the heavy glare of the sun. Fox notes the albatross in her “soaking-wet notebook” and watches it circle and fly back into the masking glare.

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The Art of Bird Camp

10,000 Birds

Nearly exterminated in Maine by hunters in the 1800‘s, the charismatic, orange-beaked little puffins nested only on one other state island until Dr. Kress painstakingly – and groundbreakingly – lured them back to nest on Eastern Egg Rock in 1977. There are over a million species of arthropods.

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