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Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival

10 best books like Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival (Carl Safina): After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America, Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, The Snow Geese, The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology, A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction, Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds, The Wolverine Way, The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology, The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea, The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature

After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America
AuthorE.C. Pielou
ISBN0226668126
A world building book. Pielou's world is vast, complex, and filled with, sometimes surprising, concepts and images. One of those books to read in segments of time, between other reading materials. Quotes later ....

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Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
AuthorEllen Meloy
Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest....
The Snow Geese
AuthorWilliam Fiennes
ISBN0330375792
The concept is wonderful: Fiennes, inspired by Gallico's "The Snow Goose" and a life changing illness, sets out to follow the migration of the Snow Goose (chen caerulescens) from wintering grounds in south central Texas to its breeding home on Baffin Island. It's a planes, trains, and automobiles...
The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology
AuthorTim Birkhead
ISBN1596915412
For thousands of years people have been fascinated by birds, and today that fascination is still growing. In 2007 bird-watching is one of the most popular pastimes, not just in America, but throughout the world, and the range of interest runs from the specialist to the beginner.

In The Wisdom...
A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
AuthorJoel Greenberg
ISBN1620405342
In the early nineteenth century 25 to 40 percent of North America's birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The down beats of their wings would chill the air beneath and create a thundering roar that would drown out all other sound. Feeding...
Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
AuthorChristopher Cokinos
ISBN0446677493
I really enjoyed the first half of the book, though it was depressing to read story after story about how people worked hard to help the heath hen, passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet and ivory billed woodpecker only to be met with ultimate doom. But, I found the second half more tedious to read. There...
The Wolverine Way
AuthorDouglas H. Chadwick
ISBN0979065976
Glutton, demon of destruction, symbol of slaughter, mightiest of wilderness villains… The wolverine comes marked with a reputation based on myth and fancy. Yet this enigmatic animal is more complex than the legends that surround it. With a shrinking wilderness and global warming, the future of...
The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0060742151
From Bernd Heinrich, the bestselling author of Winter World, comes the remarkable story of his father's life, his family's past, and how the forces of history and nature have shaped his own life. Although Bernd Heinrich's father, Gerd, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd tried to distance...
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
AuthorCallum Roberts
A Silent Spring for oceans, written by "the Rachel Carson of the fish world" (The New York Times)Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts—one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists—leads...
The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
AuthorJonathan Rosen
ISBN0374186308
Aerial delights: A history of America as seen through the eyes of a bird-watcher

John James Audubon arrived in America in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president, and lived long enough to see his friend Samuel Morse send a telegraphic message from his house in New York City in the 1840s. As...
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
AuthorPhillip Hoose
ISBN0374361738
The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces...
Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science
AuthorRobert Kunzig
ISBN0393320634
The sea covers seven-tenths of the Earth, but we have mapped only a small percentage of it. The sea contains millions of species of animals and plants, but we have identified only a few thousand of them. The sea controls our planet's climate, but we do not really understand how. The sea is still the frontier,...
The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong (with CD)
AuthorDonald E. Kroodsma
ISBN0618405682
Listen to Birds Sing as you've never listened before, as the world-renowned birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma takes you on personal journeys of discovery and intrigue. Read stories of thrushes and thrashers, wrens and robins, warblers and whip-poor-wills, bluebirds and cardinals, and may more birds....
Resurrecting the Shark: A Scientific Obsession and the Mavericks Who Solved the Mystery of a 270-Million-Year-Old Fossil
AuthorSusan Ewing
ISBN1681773430
In 1993, Alaskan artist and paleo-shark enthusiast Ray Troll stumbled upon the weirdest fossil he had ever seen—a platter-sized spiral of tightly wound shark teeth. This chance encounter in the basement of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County sparked Troll’s obsession with Helicoprion,...
The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species
AuthorScott Weidensaul
ISBN0865476683
"A thoughtful examination of the machinery of extinction . . . By turns harrowing and elegiac, thrilling and informative." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Three or four times an hour, eighty or more times a day, a unique species of plant or animal vanishes forever. And yet, every so...
The Great Penguin Rescue: 40,000 Penguins, a Devastating Oil Spill, and the Inspiring Story of the World's Largest Animal Rescue
AuthorDyan deNapoli
On June 23, 2000, the iron ore carrier MV Treasure foundered off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, spilling 1,300 tons of oil into the ocean and contaminating the habitat of 75,000 penguins—thus threatening to decimate 41 percent of the world’s population of African penguins. A massive rescue...
Monsters of the Sea
AuthorRichard Ellis
ISBN1592289673

"Monsters of the Sea" is for those with a great curiosity about the mysterious creatures that lurk beneath the surface of the sea that humans have sometimes been granted glimpses of.

For as long as we've been curious, our access to the oceans' mysteries have and still remain so limited that...
The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
AuthorCharles Clover
Gourmands and health-conscious consumers alike have fallen for fish; last year per capita consumption in the United States hit an all-time high. Packed with nutrients and naturally low in fat, fish is the last animal we can still eat in good conscience. Or can we?

In this vivid, eye-opening...
Rat Island: Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue
AuthorWilliam Stolzenburg
ISBN1608191036
Rat Island rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a mass of volcanic rock covered with tundra, midway between Alaska and Siberia. Once a remote sanctuary for enormous flocks of seabirds, the island gained a new name when shipwrecked rats colonized, savaging the nesting birds by the thousands....
Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution
AuthorCaroline Fraser
ISBN0805078266
A gripping account of the environmental crusade to save the world’s most endangered species and landscapes—the last best hope for preserving our natural home

Scientists worldwide are warning of the looming extinction of thousands of species, from tigers and polar bears to rare flowers,...
The Parrot's Lament, and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity
AuthorEugene Linden
ISBN0452280680
A gorilla shrewdly sells back a missing key chain to the highest bidder. An orangutan picks a lock to let himself out of his zoo enclosure and two elephants adopt a tag-team strategy to keep their handlers from putting them back into theirs. In The Parrot's Lament, noted environmentalist Eugene Linden...
Ornithology
AuthorFrank B. Gill
ISBN0716749831
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Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
AuthorTim Low
ISBN0670077968
Tim Low, award-winning author of Feral Future, in an eye-opening book on the unique nature of Australian birds and their role in ecology and global evolution.

Renowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds that are just as unusual, just as striking, a result of the continent's...
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