... gripping.

There is no one better at dressing the natural-history stage than Mr. Weidensaul. His prose is front-loaded with visual, aural and olfactory information that place the reader at his side, wherever he goes.

The book is packed with these awesome tales.

I’m not a birder, but Weidensaul persuades me that I could be, and that a greater appreciation of the movement and behaviour of migratory birds might bring me into closer contact with what it means to be a living thing on Earth.

Many mysteries of bird life and migration are revealed in this compelling and illuminating in-the-field narrative complete with maps and photographs..

Based on recent scientific research and his own research and bird observations, Weidensaul vividly explains how humans, through destruction of habitat and global warming, are threatening many bird species populations.

... wide-ranging.

... remarkable.