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Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird
by
Katie Fallon (Goodreads Author)
Taking the reader from the mountains of Appalachia to a coffee plantation near Bogotá, Colombia, this investigation into the plight of the cerulean warbler—a tiny migratory songbird—describes its struggle to survive in ever-shrinking bands of suitable habitat. This elusive creature—a favorite among bird watchers and the fastest-declining warbler species in the United State...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
November 1st 2011
by Ruka Press
(first published October 18th 2011)
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Read for my Nature Writing class. This book does many things well. It conveys the author's love and passion for cerulean warblers (which is the idea, after all), and more importantly, made ME care about cerulean warblers. It also made me change my behaviors. I'm only going to buy shade grown coffee now, because I don't want to be killing birdies.
Another thing this book does well is make birding exciting. When Fallon takes us out in the field with her in search of ceruleans, it's an adventure an...more
Another thing this book does well is make birding exciting. When Fallon takes us out in the field with her in search of ceruleans, it's an adventure an...more
I certainly know more about cerulean warblers that I did before--I had known that they are elusive little birds. I have only seen two, a female that showed up in Point Pelee National Park on one of my visits there and one male that I saw for nano-seconds (really high) in Texas. I'm still searching for that satisfying look at the gorgeous male Cerulean. Now I know why they are so difficult to track down.
The bird information in the book was very good. And I realize that it is as much a memoir as a...more
The bird information in the book was very good. And I realize that it is as much a memoir as a...more
Loved the book - I devoured most of it over the course of two plane flights in a single afternoon. Katie's passion for these birds is clear the moment you start reading, and her story is a two-continent adventure that makes you been like you're right there in the woods with her.
I will include a trigger warning for some people: I hadn't expected to read a first-hand account of the events of April 16 so quickly into the book. The wounds of that day are still raw for many; if you're one of those pe...more
I will include a trigger warning for some people: I hadn't expected to read a first-hand account of the events of April 16 so quickly into the book. The wounds of that day are still raw for many; if you're one of those pe...more
a most excellent natural history of this warbler that summers in usa appalachias and winters in colombia mountains, chronicles the little birds precipitous decline toward extinction. author tries to figure out why (usual culprits, pollutions of all kinds, air, water, light,etc, loss of habitat in both n and s amer, house cats etc etc) and really hits the woods to get her facts. she becomes really, the pop expert and reporter on the little buggers and is good at relating her personal journeys wit...more
Very interesting look at a year in the life of cerulean warblers (which I had never heard of before), and of author Fallon. The writing was lively, and the bird facts instructive. Made me want to replace my 45+year old binoculars, run into the wooods, demonstrate against mountaintop removal mining, and drink shade-grown coffee...all at the same time!
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