The Seabirds Cry: the lives and loves of the planets great ocean voyagers. Adam Nicholson

The Seabirds Cry: the lives and loves of the planets great ocean voyagers. Adam Nicholson

A beautiful exploration of 10 species of seabirds – and the threats they face. “a poetic, soaring exploration of 10 species of seabirds”: Fulmar, Puffin, Kittiwake, Gull, Guillemot, Gannet , Commorant, Shearwater, Great Auk, Albatross – which revels in the way they “float like beings from the otherworld”; "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land."

Their population dropping by nearly 70% in the last sixty years, a billion fewer now than there were in 1950.

What is to be done:

1— better understanding in the state of the world seabirds

2—their breeding places need to be protected from people and predatory animals

3—tighter controls involved in all kinds of fishing vessels

4—for control the rate at which we are changing in the atmosphere in the ocean (global warming)

I like birds. I like observing them in the morning at the Wakodahatchee wetlands here in Florida. I’m concerned about our world and the depletion of BIRDS of all types. It’s a well written, interesting book particularly if you want to know more about these specific species, and if you need the slightest increased motivation to act in BIRDS and the EARTH’S defense.

I find it interesting my circle of books has been fairly narrow of late:
Institutional Racism - what we need to do
Global Warming  & Nature - what we need to do
Receiving, Identifying  & Acting Upon Promptings  - what we need to do  

Breaking out of the mold this week and reading a couple of books that my eldest granddaughter is reading so that she and I can chat about them. It will be fun  next up -The Adventures of Max Crumbly. 

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