The Narrow Edge A Tiny Bird an Ancient Crab and an Epic Journey 1st Edition by Deborah Cramer ISBN 0300219695 9780300219692

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ISBN 10: 0300219695
ISBN 13: 9780300219692
Author: Deborah Cramer
In a volume as urgent and eloquent as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, this book—winner of the Southern Environmental Law Center’s 2016 Reed Environmental Writing Award in the book category—reveals how the health and well-being of a tiny bird and an ancient crab mirrors our own
Winner of the 2016 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award given by the Society of Environmental Journalists
 “[Cramer] writes . . . ‘By the end of this journey I am more in awe than when I began.’ Follow her graceful writing for the full 9,500 miles and you will share in that awe.”—Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History

“Her writing is vivid, novelistic . . . The resulting book is everything a natural history should be.”—Living Bird

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, ancient animals that come ashore but once a year, are vital to humans, too: their blue blood safeguards our health. Now, the rufa red knot, newly listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, will likely face extinction in the foreseeable future across its entire range, 40 states and 27 countries. The first United States bird listed because global warming imperils its existence, it will not be the last: the red knot is the twenty-first century’s “canary in the coal mine.” Logging thousands of miles following the knots, shivering with the birds out on the snowy tundra, tracking them down in bug-infested marshes, Cramer vividly portrays what’s at stake for millions of shorebirds and hundreds of millions of people living at the sea edge. The Narrow Edge offers an uplifting portrait of the tenacity of tiny birds and of the many people who, on the sea edge we all share, keep knots flying and offer them safe harbor. Winner of the 2016 National Academies Communications Award for best book that honors the best in science communications. Sponsored by the Keck Futures Initiative—a program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, with the support of the W.M. Keck Foundation

The Narrow Edge A Tiny Bird an Ancient Crab and an Epic Journey 1st Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Red Knot’s Migration

• The Journey of the Red Knot
• The Importance of the Delaware Bay
• The Connection Between the Bird and the Crab

Chapter 2: The Science of Migration

• Migratory Patterns in Birds
• The Role of the Horseshoe Crab in the Ecosystem
• How Science Tracks Long-Distance Migrants

Chapter 3: The Delaware Bay

• A Critical Stop for Migrating Birds
• The Horseshoe Crab’s Role in the Bay
• Ecological Challenges in the Region

Chapter 4: A Tale of Two Travelers

• The Story of the Red Knot and the Horseshoe Crab
• How Ancient and Modern Life Intertwine
• Conservation Efforts in the Bay

Chapter 5: The Role of Conservation

• Protecting the Horseshoe Crab Habitat
• The Interconnectedness of Ecosystems
• Efforts to Save the Red Knot

Chapter 6: Global Implications

• The Red Knot and the Global Impact of Migration
• Climate Change and Habitat Loss
• The Future of Migratory Species

Chapter 7: An Epic Journey

• The Trials and Triumphs of Migration
• The Role of Humans in Shaping the Future
• The Continuing Struggle for Survival

Epilogue

• Reflecting on the Journey of the Red Knot
• The Ongoing Fight for Conservation and Change

Acknowledgments

References

Index

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