Making Sense of Bird Migration
Everybody who engages with nature has wondered--marveled--at the phenomenon of
bird migration. How on earth do these little guys (yes, some hummingbirds
migrate long distances) get from A to B? A shorebird holds the record for the
longest known non-stop migration flight: over 7,000 miles, over open ocean from
Alaska to New Zealand. How is that possible? How does a Barn Swallow navigate
from its wintering ground in South Africa to its nest site in Scotland; how can
a Pacific Golden Plover find Hawai'i, which is over 2,000 miles from the nearest
continent--a speck in the ocean amid the vast expanse of the Pacific?
Long Hops (2016) is published by the University of Hawai'i Press.