Return of the Condor (eBook)

The Race to Save Our Largest Bird from Extinction

John Moir (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2006
272 Seiten
Lyons Press (Verlag)
978-1-4617-4907-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A gripping account of the dramatic race to preserve one of America's most imperiled birds.

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';A heart-stopping saga of the rescue from the very brink of extinction of one of the grandest of all birds.'Thomas Lovejoy, president of the Amazon Biodiversity Center. RETURN OF THE CONDOR is the riveting account of one of the most dramatic attempts to save a species from extinction in the history of modern conservation. With the condor's population down to only twenty-two birds in the 1980s and their very survival in doubt, the condor recovery team flouted conventional wisdom and pursued a controversial strategy to pull the bird back from the brink of extinction. Thus began the ongoing, decades-long program to reestablish America's largest bird in its ancient home in Western skies. Award-winning science writer John Moir takes readers into the backcountry to get to know the recovery program scientists as well as some of the individual condors. These are stories of peril, uncertainty, and controversy. Woven throughout these tales of heartbreak and triumph is the extraordinary dedication of the humans who have sometimes risked their lives for this charismatic, intelligent, and social bird. Despite the program's remarkable successes, the condor's narrative is still unfolding with a number of challenges remaining. This includes the dilemma of lead poisoning among free-flying condors that is a major obstacle to the bird's recovery.Finalist for the William Saroyan International Writing Prize from the Stanford University LibrariesHonorable Mention from the National Association of Science Writers

Autor

John Moir is a naturalist and science educator, and his articles have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Examiner, the San Jose Mercury News, and The Sacramento Bee, among others.

Inhalt

IntroductionChapter 1 The Last Condor Chapter 2 Giant Avian PrimatesChapter 3 Dancing Molokbes and Sinister BuzzardsChapter 4 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeChapter 5 Death of a ChickChapter 6 Doin' the Double-Clutch Two-StepChapter 7 Point of No ReturnChapter 8 Kids on the Loose Chapter 9 A Senseless ShootingChapter 10 AC8's Day in CourtChapter 11 Shadows in the SkyChapter 12 Homeward BoundAppendix 1 Where to See Condors Appendix 2 How to Learn More About Condors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2006
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Alden Miller • american birds • animals going extinct • audubon society • Bill Toone • bird habitats • Birding • bird sanctuaries • Breeding • California condor • captive breeding • Carl Koford • Condor Recovery Program • condor viewing tips • conservation • Darwin • Endangered Species • fish and game • Grand Canyon • Gymnogyps Californianus • Habitat protection • joseph grinnell • lead bullets birds • lead poisoning birds • Lewis and Clark • Museum of Natural History • National Audubon Society • Ornithology • Pinnacles National Park • raising birds • Redwood National Park • releasing wild birds • retrieving bird eggs • Sespe Condor Sanctuary • studies of birds • turkey vultures • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service • wing tags • Zion National Park
• ISBN-10: 1-4617-4907-7 / 1461749077
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4617-4907-3 / 9781461749073