Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} North on the Wing Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring by Bruce M. Beehler Bylane Book Club: North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring. Join us for our April read, the story of an ornithologist’s journey to trave the spring migration of songbirds from the southern border of the United States through the heartland and into Canada. In North on the Wing , Bruce M. Beehler describes both the epic migration of songbirds across the country and the gradual dawning of springtime through the U.S. heartland–the blossoming of wildflowers, the chorusing of frogs, the leafing out of forest canopies–and also tells the stories of the people and institutions dedicated to studying and conserving the critical habitats and processes of spring songbird migration. Inspired in part by Edwin Way Teale’s landmark 1951 book North with the Spring , this book–part travelogue, part field journal, and part environmental and cultural history–is a fascinating first-hand account of a once-in-a-lifetime journey. BRUCE M. BEEHLER is an ornithologist, naturalist, conservationist, author, and lecturer. He is a research associate in the division of birds at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. This book is available to borrow from the Westchester Library System or is available to purchase across a variety of platforms in print, electronically and on audio. North on the Wing by Bruce M. Beehler [7/10] Contemplative, steady books function as welcome relief from the drama and cacophony of most of our reading. “ North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring ” is a rhythmic, unhurried account of ornithologist Bruce Beehler’s 2015 four-month odyssey from America’s south up to the remote woods of Ontario. His mission was to shadow a 1951 birder’s trip, to view thirty-seven migrating warblers, but his deeper purposes were clearly to explore first-hand the amazements of bird migration and to document humankind’s inexorable encroachment of avian habitats. “We must remain hopeful,” he writes towards the end, “and continue to work to conserve and restore what we love.” Beehler writes fulsomely about the environment and the many birds he sights, and his passion for solo observation is infectious. This is a love story, an enfolding of nature around him, an immersion. Whilst the target audience for “North on the Wing” is birders, I commend it also to budding naturalists and explorers of the real world beyond our expanding megalopolises. North on the Wing. The world’s #1 eTextbook reader for students. VitalSource is the leading provider of online textbooks and course materials. 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The print version of this textbook is ISBN: 9781588346131, 1588346137. Smithsonian Books Releases "North on the Wing" Smithsonian Books is releasing North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring by Bruce Beehler Feb. 6. In late March 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo four-month trek to track songbird migration and the northward progress of spring through America. Traveling via car, canoe, bike and on foot, Beehler followed woodland warblers and other Neotropical songbird species from the Texas coast, where the birds first arrive after their winter sojourns in South America and the Caribbean, through the Mississippi River’s drainage to its headwaters in Minnesota and onward to their nesting grounds in the north woods of Ontario, Canada. In North on the Wing , Beehler describes the migration of songbirds across the country and the gradual dawning of springtime through the U.S. heartland—the blossoming of wildflowers, the chorusing of frogs and the leafing out of forest canopies. He also tells the stories of the people and institutions dedicated to studying and conserving the critical habitats and processes of spring songbird migration. Inspired in part by Edwin Way Teale’s landmark 1951 book North with the Spring , this book—part travelogue, part field journal and part environmental and cultural history—is a firsthand account of a once-in-a-lifetime journey. It engages readers in the wonders of spring migration and serves as a call to conserve, restore and expand bird habitats to preserve them for future generations of both birds and humans. About the Author. Beehler is an ornithologist, naturalist, conservationist, author and lecturer. He is a research associate in the division of birds at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. He is best known for coleading a survey of biological diversity in the Foja Mountains of Papua New Guinea in 2005, during which the wattled smoky honeyeater was discovered and the bronze parotia and golden-fronted bowerbird were photographed for the first time. He has published 11 books about nature, most recently Birds of New Guinea . About the Book. Title: North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring Author: Bruce Beehler On-Sale Date: 2/6/18 Price: $24.95 / Pages: 256 ISBN: 978-1-58834-613-1 Smithsonian Books. Review: North on the Wing by Bruce M. Beehler. I have to confess that it took me some time to warm up to Bruce M. Beehler’s North on the Wing . Edwin Way Teale, from whom Beehler drew the inspiration for his project, has never been my favorite of the old-school nature writers. Moreover, Beehler – or his editors – made certain stylistic choices in terms of organization and typesetting that I found distracting. There are times in the early going when the tale hovers on the edge of textbook – numbered lists, important terms in bold, and the like. Moreover, the brief summaries of his travels followed by more detailed accounts sometimes made me feel like I was stuck in a time loop. I had to work my way past this to get involved in the story and reach the meat of the matter. But like many a tough nut to crack, the meat was worth it. Beehler set himself a lofty goal – following the spring songbird migration in the United States from the Gulf of Mexico all the way to the boreal forests of Canada and in the process seeing all thirty-seven species of eastern-breeding wood warblers, from Common Yellowthroat to Kirtland’s Warbler , on their respective breeding grounds. He addresses this task with humble determination rather than florid drama, to the point that at times I lost track of how many species he had yet to see. He camps and drives, drives and camps, stopping often to meet with working conservationists and filling his narrative not just with birds but with butterflies, dragonflies, mammals and reptiles, botany and geology and a bit of history – a general appreciation of the world around him that serves any nature writer well. By the later chapters, despite myself, I was charmed by Beehler’s enthusiasm and pleasure in simple encounters with even common species. Moreover, as someone who has herself recently struggled with the task of conveying the beauty of a Cape May Warbler in words, I admired his approach to the challenge of appreciating without gushing. This was a slender volume to cover the many topics Beehler addressed – from the mechanics of relocating one’s natal territory after an epic transcontinental journey to the sad and cruel history of resource extraction in the territories of Canada’s First Nations. He was able to give each topic just a brush of the wingtip, as it were, but for those who are new to this material it would provide many avenues for further exploration. In the end I expect that this soft-spoken and earnest volume will probably find an audience similar to Teale’s, and if that appeals to you, you should check it out. North on the Wing by Bruce M. Beehler Smithsonian Books Hardcover $24.95 ISBN 13: 9781588346131. Cover Image – Prairie Warbler in Jamaica by Charles J. Sharp, Wikimedia Commons.