"A Window Into Migration" Bird Migration and Light Pollution

In October 2024, GVPL hosted "A Window Into Migration," a large scale art installation drawing attention to the impacts of light pollution on bird migrations. Learn more about this important topic from these great reads for all ages!

Updated November 8, 2024
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Birds and us : a 12,000 year history, from cave art to conservation
Birkhead, T. R
Paper Book
Award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds. Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art and...
The birds at my table : why we feed wild birds and why it matters
Jones, Darryl.
Paper Book
Darryl Jones is fascinated by bird feeders. Not the containers supplying food to our winged friends, but the people who fill the containers, scatter the crumbs or seeds, or leave the picnic scraps behind for the birds. Here, Jones takes us on a wild flight through the history of bird feeding as he...
Circle
Baker, Jeannie
Paper Book
With entrancing collages and lyrical narration, the creator of the acclaimed Mirror follows the epic flight of an extraordinary bird. Each year, bar-tailed godwits undertake the longest unbroken migration of any bird, flying from their breeding grounds in the Arctic to...
The seabird's cry : the lives and the loves of puffins, gannets and other ocean voyagers
Nicolson, Adam
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING 2017 The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers. The book looks at the pattern of their lives, their habitats, the threats they face and the passions they inspire -...
A season on the wind : inside the world of spring migration
Kaufman, Kenn
Paper Book
A close look at one season in one key site that reveals the amazing science and magic of spring bird migration, and the perils of human encroachment.   Every spring, billions of birds sweep north, driven by ancient instincts to return to their breeding grounds. This...
A world on the wing : the global odyssey of migratory birds
Weidensaul, Scott
Paper Book
In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the highest mountains, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch has exploded. What we've learned of these key migrations--how billions of birds...

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