by Rebecca Heisman
My brain is hurting! So much information here and I had to catch it all.
My heart is hurting. Even the suggestion that all the counting and documentation of birds that we are finally able to do, might just be documenting the end of the migrating species of the world. Is it hopeless? How many species are in decline, and how few are not?
She raised that point toward the end, and went on a couple of final trips to satisfy herself that there is still hope. I think…I think she did. And it improved my own hopes--but only a little.
The beginning of the book occurs when people first
started to ask, and answer intelligently, where do the birds go? And then bird banding started to provide even
more questions than answers, and then on it goes--all about radar and a bird
band database and then on to weather radar surprises, theories about the Gulf
of Mexico as a shortcut for songbirds, and then tiny transmitters and GPS and the cooperation
of nations in puzzling out the enigma. Ongoing enigma.
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