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In late March 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler tripped on a single three-month trek to trail songbird migration and the northward improvement of spring through America. Visiting via car, canoe, cycle, and by walking, Beehler implemented woodland warblers and other neotropical songbird types from the southern border of Texas, where the birds first appear after their winter sojourns in SOUTH USA and the Caribbean, northward through the Mississippi drainage to its headwaters in Minnesota and onward with their nesting grounds in the north woods of Ontario. In North on the Wing, Beehler explains both epic migration of songbirds across the country and the continuous dawning of springtime through the US heartland - the blossoming of wildflowers, the chorusing of frogs, the leafing out of forest canopies - and also instructs the reviews of the people and institutions dedicated to studying and conserving the critical habitats and processes of spring songbird migration. Inspired partly by Edwin Way Teale's landmark 1951 publication North with the Planting season, this audiobook - part travelogue, part field journal, and part environmental and cultural history - is a remarkable first-hand account of an once-in-a-lifetime voyage. It engages listeners in the magic of spring migration and functions as a demand the need to conserve, repair, and expand parrot habitats to preserve them for future generations of both birds and humans.
