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Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 317
this book details life histories
The Second Atlas brings knowledge of the area's nesting birds into the twenty–first century and identifies those species and habitats most in need of conservation
many b&w drawings
The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 317Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: 'They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land.' A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall, dropping by nearly 70% in the last sixty years, a billion fewer now than there were in 1950. Of the ten birds in this book, seven are in decline, at least in part
