The return of the oystercatcher : saving birds to save the planet

Weidensaul, Scott2026

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Across the world, scientists, conservationists and ordinary people are involved in groundbreaking work to restore billions of lost birds. Together they're tackling the hollowing out of the springtime dawn chorus and the withering away of once-great migration multitudes. From a tiny island off the coast of Maine to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, to a hereditary estate in England, the deep Carpathian Mountains in Romania and a watery wilderness in Ukraine where air-raid sirens scream at night, birds' fortunes are being reversed. In this book, natural history writer Scott Weidensaul tells the uplifting story of that success and what it means for us and for our planet, too. Because a world that works for birds, in all their complexity of movement and ecological need, will work for everything else. Including people.