The narrow edge a tiny bird, an ancient crab, and an epic journey
"Each year, red knots, sandpipers weighing no more than a coffee cup, fly a near-miraculous 19,000 miles from the tip of South America to their nesting grounds in the Arctic and back. Along the way, they double their weight by gorging on millions of tiny horseshoe crab eggs. Horseshoe crabs, an...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2015]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b37671467*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
