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BostonPL_The Incredible Lives of Seabirds

Remote and mysterious, seabirds live in worlds and elements inaccessible to humans. Check out these books to learn more about these remarkable creatures and the improbable ways that humans have deciphered the secrets of their lives.

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  • The Seabird's Cry

    the Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers

    Nicolson, Adam, 1957-
    A beautifully written exploration of seabird lives, infused with poetry and attentive to the individuality of each feathered creature.
    Book, 2018New York : A John Macrae Book, Henry Holt and Company, 2018. — QL678.52 .N53 2018
  • Far From Land

    the Mysterious Lives of Seabirds

    Brooke, Michael,
    A compendium of the latest seabird science from one of the world's preeminent seabird researchers.
    Book, 2018Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018] — QL678.52 .B76 2018x
  • Eye of the Albatross

    Visions of Hope and Survival

    Safina, Carl, 1955-
    Traces the life of an albatross across the vastness of the oceans.
    Unknown, 2003New York : Henry Holt, 2003. — QL696.P63 S24 2003x
  • A cultural history of the place of the albatross in human history, thought, and imagination.
    Book, 2014London : Reaktion Books, 2014. — QL696.P63 B37 2014x
  • Sea & Coastal Birds of North America

    a Guide to Observation, Understanding and Conservation

    Leslie, Scott, 1963-
    A combination of field guide and natural history gives a complete picture of these habitats' birds.
    Unknown, 2008Toronto : Key Porter Books, 2008. — QL681 .L45 2008x
  • Gulls Simplified

    a Comparative Approach to Identification

    Dunne, Pete, 1951-
    Devoted to the difficult task of identifying gulls in all their interspecies similarities and intraspecies variation.
    Unknown, 2019Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019] — QL696.C46 D864 2019x
  • The Herring Gull's World

    a Study of the Social Behavior of Birds

    Tinbergen, Niko, 1907-1988
    A classic study from one of the founders of the modern science of animal behavior.
    Unknown, 1961New York : Basic Books, [1961, c1960] — QL696.L3 T5 1961
  • Landfill

    Notes on Gull Watching and Trash Picking in the Anthropocene

    Dee, Tim, 1961-
    A meditation on the place and persistence of gulls in an increasingly human-dominated world.
    Book, 2019White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, 2019. — QL696.C46 D44 2019
  • Project Puffin

    the Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock

    Kress, Stephen W.
    A conservation success story involving some of the most distinctive of all seabirds.
    Book, 2015New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015] — QL696.C42 K75 2015
  • Superb photographs of oceanic birds the world over.
    Book, 2019Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019] — QL678.52 .H69 2019x