Discusses the physical characteristics and habits of the endangered Least Terns and describes the Maine beach where they spend the summer and raise their young, alongside their human neighbors.
Sophie works as a field biologist and naturalist specializing in birds aboard a ship bound for deep ocean waters to study, paint, and record sightings of whales, leaping manta rays, and other marine life.
Illustrations and text show how the marbled murrelet, a sea bird, make their nests and raise their chicks inland, hundreds of feet above ground, before they fly back and forth over the Pacific Ocean.