Author Name: Gessner, David
Title: Return of the Osprey: A Season of Flight and Wonder
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: New
Jacket Condition: New Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2001
ISBN: 1565122542 / 9781565122543
Seller ID: 001744
More than any other bird, the osprey symbolizes the New England coast, as Roger Tory Peterson once noted. Known also as fish hawks, ospreys - with their magnificent six-foot wingspand and dark masks - are the only raptors to five fully into the water to catch their prey. David Gessner sets himself on a quest: to watch these great birds of prey and learn about their astonishing comeback to the Atlantic coast after a twenty-year absence. Over the course of a full nesting season - from March, when the ospreys return from their wintering grounds until September, when they migrate back to South America - Gessner immerses himself in the lives of four pairs of hawks. By bike, kayak, and on foot, he takes the reader through the beautiful landscape of Cape Cod and details the intricacies of the ospreys' day-to-day living: Nest-building, courship, giving birth, first flights, and murder of one fledgling by another and, most captivating of all, the ospreys' swift and forceful dive into the sea. In the process, Gessner discovers an intimacy with the land and learns about resiliency and hope. 286 pages including selected bibliography. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
OSPREYS NATURE BIRDS BIRDWATCHING
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