Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
But in the fall (with plumage as in the photo on the left, above) they take an entirely different, and heroic, route, first to Massachusetts and then, after a rest, south over the Atlantic Ocean. The blackpoll, “a bird with a body just a little larger than your thumb,” doesn’t stop until South America. Eighty hours of flying.
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