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The narrow edge : a tiny bird, an ancient crab, and an epic journey / Deborah Cramer.
LIBRA QL696.C48 C48 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cramer, Deborah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Red knot--Migration--Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.).
- Red knot.
- Shore birds--Migration--Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.).
- Shore birds.
- Migratory birds--Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.).
- Migratory birds.
- Limulus polyphemus--Ecology.
- Limulus polyphemus.
- Calidris--Ecology.
- Calidris.
- Human ecology.
- Seashore ecology--Atlantic Coast (America).
- Seashore ecology.
- Climatic changes.
- Red knot--Migration.
- Shore birds--Migration.
- Ecology.
- Atlantic Ocean--Delaware Bay.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Beginnings
- The "uttermost part of the earth" : Tierra del Fuego
- When is the beginning of the end?
- The urban bird and the resort : Río Gallegos and Las Grutas
- Bay of plenty : Delaware Bay
- Tenacity
- Blue bloods
- Counting
- Lowcountry : South Carolina and other tidelands
- Ghost trail : the Laguna Madre and the central flyway
- Does losing one more bird matter?
- The longest day : the Arctic
- Returning south : James Bay, the Mingan Islands, and the Guianas
- Heading home.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300185197
- 9780300185195
- OCLC:
- 894310500
- Publisher Number:
- 99962704341
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