Arctic Wings, Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

To learn and better appreciate the merits of America’s finest wilderness wildlife refuge, add this Award-Winning Book and 60-minute CD to your library. Arctic Wings, Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge begins with the Forward by President Jimmy Carter. This conservation standard is a compilation of dramatic stories of bird migration and strategies for survival with 200 color photos from award-winning nature photographers. This prestigious book is packaged with a 60-minute CD of bird songs recorded in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Essays include David Allen Sibley on the grand dance of bird migration and the sense of time and place on the earth that it provides. Debbie Miller describes the incredible journeys of songbirds from the Arctic Refuge to points across the hemisphere and around the world, which connects the varied habitats and people together. Robert Thompson, an Inupiat guide, reveals the relationship between birds and native culture – and this volume offers a wealth of other topics and authors to explore.

Life histories of individual bird species from every major group including shorebirds, songbirds, waterfowl, and raptors are braided with their impressive variety of migrations and strategies for survival. The book is packaged with an hour-long CD of bird songs recorded in the Arctic Refuge by Martyn Stewart of NatureSound that includes individual species tracks with the option to search for bird songs and calls of interest by their numbered track.

This publication was honored with a National Outdoor Book Award for Design and Artistic Merit, and features 200 color photos by award-winning nature photographers Subhankar Banerjee, Michio Hoshino, Steven Kazlowski, Arthur Morris, Hugh Rose, and Mark Wilson.

Arctic Wings was published jointly by Braided River, the conservation imprint of Mountaineers Books, and the Manomet Center for Conservation Science. For more information, please refer to https://www.mountaineers.org/books/books/arctic-wings-birds-of-the-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge