"Let’s all be ornithologists."
With stunning colour illustrations throughout, this book introduces us to fascinating birds from across the globe, while explaining how human activity is affecting them, and what we can do to help.
One double page features illustrations of some of the birds we’ve already lost – the Carolina parakeet, the Alaotra grebe, the Hoopoe starling – immediately highlighting the beauty and variety of birds, and also how this is a worldwide problem. There are dramatic stories from history – that of the birds of Layson island in the Hawaiian archipelago, almost wiped out by hunters from the United States, France, Britain and Japan, harvesting feathers for fashion and guano for fertiliser; these are presented alongside equally powerful stories of how pesticides and even tourism are having similar impacts today.
It’s not without hope though, see the story of the giant takahē, thought extinct but rediscovered in New Zealand, and the sarus crane, now protected in a wildlife sanctuary in the Mekong Delta. The book offers practical advice on what young people can do to help, and actively encourages them to just go outside, observe and learn about the beautiful creatures flying overhead. Inspired by what they have read and learned, this will seem very tempting indeed.
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