Download The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers AudioBook Free
Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "These are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from sea to land." A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to comprehend them, the number of seabirds on our world is free fall, shedding by nearly 70% in the last 60 years, a billion fewer now than there were in 1950. In the 10 wild birds in this audiobook, seven are in decline, at least partly of the range. Extinction stalks the sea and there is a threat that the grand cry of the seabird colony, moving about the bays and headlands of high latitudes, will this century become little but a memory space. Seabirds have always entranced the individuals imagination and New York Times best-selling author Adam Nicolson has been in love with them all his life: because of their mastery of wind flow and sea, their aerial beauty and the unequaled wildness of the coasts and islands where every summer months they return to breed. The seabird's cry comes from an elemental layer in the storyline of the world. During the last couple of ages, modern research has begun to comprehend their epic voyages, their astonishing abilities to understand for thousands of a long way on featureless seas, their potential to smell their way towards fish and home. Only the poets before would have thought of seabirds as animals riding the ripples and currents of the entire planet, but that is exactly what the researchers are viewing now today.
