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Sandhill and Whooping Cranes - Ancient Voices over America's Wetlands (Paperback)
Loot Price: R336
Discovery Miles 3 360
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Sandhill and Whooping Cranes - Ancient Voices over America's Wetlands (Paperback)
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List price R404
Loot Price R336
Discovery Miles 3 360
You Save R68 (17%)
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Driving west from Lincoln to Grand Island, Nebraska, Paul A.
Johnsgard remarks, is like driving backward in time. "I suspect,"
he says, "that the migrating cranes of a pre-ice age period some
ten million years ago would fully understand every nuance of the
crane conversation going on today along the Platte."
Johnsgard has spent nearly a half century observing cranes, from a
yearly foray to Nebraska's Platte River valley to see the spring
migration, to pilgrimages to the birds' wintering grounds in
Arizona and nesting territory in Alaska. In this book he draws from
his own extensive experience as well as the latest science to offer
a richly detailed and deeply felt account of the ecology of
sandhill and whooping cranes and the wetlands in which they
live.
Incorporating current information on changing migration patterns,
population trends, and breeding ranges, Johnsgard explains the life
cycle of the crane, as well as the significance of these species to
our natural world. He also writes frankly of the uncertain future
of these majestic birds, as cranes and their habitats face the
effects of climate change and increasing human population
pressures. Illustrated with the author's own ink drawings and
containing a detailed guide to crane-viewing sites in the United
States and Canada, this book is at once an invaluable reference and
an eloquent testimony to how much these birds truly mean.
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