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  Title

  Moonbird : a year on the wind with the great survivor B95 First edition.

  Author

  Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-  

  Publisher:

  Farrar Straus Giroux,

  Pub date:

  2012.

  Description:

  148 pages :

  ISBN:

  0374304688

  Item info:

  2 copies currently available - Twin Hickory Library and Tuckahoe Library.
  

  Number of holds:

  0

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    Tuckahoe Library
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    JUV 598.0723 HOOSE	1	Children's book	Juvenile nonfiction
    Twin Hickory Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    JUV 598.0723 HOOSE	1	Children's book	Juvenile nonfiction
    	2	Children's book	CHECKEDOUT - DUE: 4/27/2024

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  Moonbird : a year on the wind with the great survivor B95 First edition.
  Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
  
  
  

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  Moonbird : a year on the wind with the great survivor B95 First edition.
  Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
  

  Personal Author:

  Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-

  Title:

  Moonbird : a year on the wind with the great survivor B95 / Phillip Hoose.

  Edition:

  First edition.

  Publication Info:

  New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2012.

  264:

  ©2012

  Physical descrip:

  148 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm

  Contents:

  Meet B95 -- Introduction -- Super bird (profile: Clive Minton) -- The Flight machine (profile: Patricia Gonzalez) -- Showdown at Delaware Bay (profile: Brian Harrington) -- Twinkling and trapping -- The Arctic breeding grounds (profile: Amanda Dey) -- Mingan: the bellwether site (profile: Guy Morrison and Ken Ross) -- Southbound: closing the circuit -- Extinction is forever (profile: Mike Hudson) -- Appendix : what you can do -- Source notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Picture credits -- Index.

  Summary:

  Documents the survival tale of an intrepid shorebird who has endured annual migrations between Argentina and the Canadian Arctic throughout the course of a long lifetime while his species continues to decline.

  Held by:

  TWNHICKORY TUCKAHOE

  Subject term:

  Red knot--Migration.

  Subject term:

  Water birds.

  Subject term:

  Sandpipers.

  Subject term:

  Bird watching.

  Subject term:

  Birds--Migration.

  Genre index term:

  Literature. lcgft