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.