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The seabird's cry : the lives and loves of the planet's great ocean voyagers / Adam Nicolson

by Nicolson, Adam, 1957-

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A John Macrae Book, Henry Holt and Company, 2018.

Sea birds -- Behavior.

Sea birds -- Ecology.

Sea birds -- Effect of human beings on.

Sea bird populations.

9781250134189 (hc.)

First U.S. edition

400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Originally published in The U.K. in 2017 by HarperCollins

Includes bibliographical references and index

Fulmar -- Puffin -- Kittiwake -- Gull -- Guillemot -- Cormorant and shag -- Shearwater -- Gannet -- Great auk and its cousin razorbill -- Albatross -- The seabird's cry

A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall, dropping by nearly 70% in the last sixty years, a billion fewer now than there were in 1950. Of the ten birds in this book, seven are in decline, at least in part of their range. Extinction stalks the ocean and there is a danger that the grand cry of the seabird colony, rolling around the bays and headlands of high latitudes, will this century become little but a memory. Seabirds have always entranced the human imagination and Adam Nicolson has been in love with them all his life: for their mastery of wind and ocean, their aerial beauty and the unmatched wildness of the coasts and islands where every summer they return to breed. Over the last couple of decades, science has begun to understand their epic voyages, their astonishing abilities to navigate for tens of thousands of miles on featureless seas, their ability to smell their way towards fish and home. Adam Nicolson is the author of Sea Room, God's Secretaries, and Why Homer Matters. He lives on a farm in Sussex.

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