How Birds Migrate by Paul Kerlinger
How Birds Migrate (Standard First Edition Birding Classic)
A Respected Popular Science Guide to How and Why Birds Migrate, by the Former Director of Cape May Bird Observatory
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: How Birds Migrate
- Author: Paul Kerlinger
- Publisher: Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA
- Publication Date: 1995
- ISBN-13: 9780811724449
- ISBN-10: 0811724441
- Edition Details: First Edition (Stackpole Books, 1995), standard softcover release.
- Binding: Publisher's illustrated card wrappers (trade paperback), perfect bound.
- Physical Format: Large softcover (trade paperback), roughly 235 x 155 mm. Illustrated with line drawings by Pat Archer.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Very Good (VG)
- Exterior / Wraps: The illustrated card wrappers are slightly soft and curved, with mild bowing to the front cover. The spine is cream and slightly toned, with a few small dark specks and some rubbing or a small nick at the head. Faint creasing and scuffing show at the lower front corner and along the fore-edge. There are small pale spots and some light marks to the cover art. Overall wear is light to moderate.
- Interior: The text block is intact and the binding appears tight. The pages are cream and clean, with no marking, and the page edges are lightly toned.
- The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)
Synopsis & Historical Value
First published by Stackpole Books of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1995, How Birds Migrate is a popular science guide to one of the great phenomena of the natural world. Paul Kerlinger sets out how and why birds undertake their journeys, drawing on case studies and illustrating the text with line drawings by Pat Archer.
The book covers the basics of flight, the effects of weather, geographical barriers and flight strategy, along with speed, altitude, distance and navigation. It also explains how seabirds fuel their long journeys. Written for birders and nature lovers, it draws on the research available at the time of writing.
The book was well received as a primer on migration, and Audubon later described it as a first-rate introduction to the subject. A revised and updated second edition appeared in 2009, which makes this 1995 first edition the original form of the text. It will suit birdwatchers, natural history readers and collectors of ornithological literature.
Author Profile: Paul Kerlinger
Paul Kerlinger is an American ornithologist who directed the Cape May Bird Observatory of the New Jersey Audubon Society for seven years, a post dated to 1987 to 1994, before working as an environmental consultant. Since 1994 he has consulted for the wind energy and communication tower industries.
His other books include Flight Strategies of Migrating Hawks (University of Chicago Press, 1989), based on radar and field research, and The Book of Owls (University of Texas Press, 1993).
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