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Author Cramer, Deborah.
Title The narrow edge : a tiny bird, an ancient crab & an epic journey / Deborah Cramer.
Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
©2015
Open Library Cover
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 Stack 3  598.2 C    IN LIBRARY
Description viii, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-276) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Red knot -- Migration -- Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.)
Shore birds -- Migration -- Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.)
Migratory birds -- Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.)
Limulus polyphemus -- Ecology.
Calidris -- Ecology.
Human ecology.
Seashore ecology -- Atlantic Coast (America)
Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects.
Added Author New York Society Library. Book Committee. 2015. ZNS
Added Title Tiny bird, an ancient crab, and an epic journey
ISBN 9780300185195 (alk. paper)
0300185197 (alk. paper)