| Title | : | Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo: Migratory Birds and the Impending Ecological Catastrophe |
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (437 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 144225193X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-15 |
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The return of migrant birds from their wintering grounds in the tropics is one of the delights of America's spring, as anyone will testify whose heart has leapt in April or May at the first liquid song of the woodthrush, or the first black-and-orange flash of the Baltimore oriole. But in recent years concern has grown that migrant birds may be declining, perhaps because of deforestation at their winter quarters in the Caribbean and in Central and South America. In Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo, Michael McCarthy highlights for the first time the disappearance of these birds which, he points out, are a part of Europe's distinctive cultural furniture, "as much as cathedrals, Latin, olive oil, or wine." He shows how their loss would do devastating damage to the cultural inheritance of us all.
Editorial : From Booklist
In luminous prose, British writer McCarthy addresses the cultural significance of migratory songbirds, from nightingales to turtle doves to the European cuckoo, on the heart and soul. He accompanies ornithologists and bird watchers in the field, and quotes everyone from Keats to Buddy Holly. Shakespeare is here, of course, as well as Chet Baker and The Lord of the Rings. This dance between art and pop culture, from those who have spent a lifetime tracking the routes these small birds take between Europe and Africa to those who wait in their backyards for the birds’ annual returns, is simply divine to read. McCarthy does not assault his readers with fearsome concern; he is much too elegant a writer for that. Instead he makes his case for why these birds matter in a thousand familiar and forgotten ways. Then, finally, he relates the devastating facts about global warming, which causes avian “mistiming,” and other causes of the current migratory specie
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