migration

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Fly away home

1996
A thirteen-year-old girl and her estranged father adopt a nest of goose eggs and become closer by raising them and teaching them to migrate.

Migration in the 21st century

how will globalization and climate change affect migration and settlement?
2010
Examines issues related to migration in the early twenty-first century, especially how globalization and climate change influence large-scale human migrations.

Eye of the whale

epic passage from Baja to Siberia
2001
Examines the migration of the California gray whale and the interaction they have with humans, including whale watchers, hunters, whalers, marine scientists and conservationists.

What is migration?

2001
This is a simple presentation of the migratory habits of such animals as geese, eels, frogs and toads, and more.

Ecological imperialism

the biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900
1993

The rarest of the rare

vanishing animals, timeless worlds
1995
Discussing the disappearance of rare and endangered species and habitats, the author sets off on journeys that lead to the habitats of the golden lion tamarind in the rain forests of Brazil, the monk seals of the Pacific's French Frigate Shoals, and the lay-over sites of monarch butterflies.

The snow geese

a story of home
2003
The author weaves his memories, knowledge of natural history, and his travel writing together using the 3,000 mile migration of geese as an enormous metaphor for his own life.

Is this Panama?

a migration story
2013
Follows Sammy, a young Wilson's warbler, on his first migratory journey south to Panama.

Being caribou

five months on foot with an arctic herd
2007
Karsten Heuer describes the experiences he and his wife shared as they migrated across the arctic with a herd of caribou. Includes anecdotes and photographs from their journey.

Moonshadow's journey

2009
When his beloved grandfather is killed in a storm while leading the swan flock south for the winter, Moonshadow is reassured by his father that the flock will go on with Grandfather always in their hearts.

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