Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird
by Katie Fallon
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Taking the reader from the mountains of Appalachia to a coffee plantation near Bogota?, Colombia, this investigation into the plight of the cerulean warbler?a tiny migratory songbird?describes its struggle to survive in ever-shrinking bands of suitable habitat. This elusive creature?a favorite among bird watchers and the fastest-declining warbler species in the United States?has lost three percent of its total population each year since 1966. This precipitous decline means that today there show more are 80 percent fewer ceruleans than 40 years ago, an show lessTags
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A must for birding enthusiasts, environmentalists, and those with a reverence for life's small wonders, who ask with Fallon, "If we start losing pieces of things, where will we stop?"
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Katie Fallon teaches creative writing at West Virginia University in Morgantown. W.V., and is the director of education for the West Virginia Raptor Rehabilitation Center
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- Original publication date
- 2011
- Blurbers
- Weidensaul, Scott; Gessner, David; Dunne, Peter; Mendenhall, Matt
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- English
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