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Author Cramer, Deborah, author.

Title The narrow edge : a tiny bird, an ancient crab, and an epic journey / Deborah Cramer.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 293 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-276) and index.
Contents Beginnings -- The "uttermost part of the earth" : Tierra del Fuego -- When is the beginning of the end? -- The urban bird and the resort : Río Gallegos and Las Grutas -- Bay of plenty : Delaware Bay -- Tenacity -- Blue bloods -- Counting -- Lowcountry : South Carolina and other tidelands -- Ghost trail : the Laguna Madre and the central flyway -- Does losing one more bird matter? -- The longest day : the Arctic -- Returning south : James Bay, the Mingan Islands, and the Guianas -- Heading home.
Summary "Each year, red knots, sandpipers weighing no more than a coffee cup, fly a near-miraculous 19,000 miles from the tip of South America to their nesting grounds in the Arctic and back. Along the way, they double their weight by gorging on millions of tiny horseshoe crab eggs. Horseshoe crabs, ancient animals that come ashore but once a year, are vital to humans, too: their blue blood safeguards our health. Now, the rufa red knot, newly listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, will likely face extinction in the foreseeable future across its entire range, 40 states and 27 countries. The first United States bird listed because global warming imperils its existence, it will not be the last: the red knot is the twenty-first century's "canary in the coal mine." Logging thousands of miles following the knots, shivering with the birds out on the snowy tundra, tracking them down in bug-infested marshes, Cramer vividly portrays what's at stake for millions of shorebirds and hundreds of millions of people living at the sea edge. The Narrow Edge offers an uplifting portrait of the tenacity of tiny birds and of the many people who, on the sea edge we all share, keep knots flying and offer them safe harbor."--Publisher information.
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Subject Red knot -- Migration -- Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.)
Red knot -- Migration.
Red knot.
Shore birds -- Migration -- Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.)
Shore birds -- Migration.
Shore birds.
Migratory birds -- Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.)
Migratory birds.
Limulus polyphemus -- Ecology.
Limulus polyphemus.
Ecology.
Calidris -- Ecology.
Calidris.
Human ecology.
Human ecology.
Seashore ecology -- Atlantic Coast (America)
Seashore ecology.
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Cramer, Deborah. Narrow edge 9780300185195 (DLC) 2014040788 (OCoLC)894310500
ISBN 9780300213713 (electronic book)
0300213719 (electronic book)
9780300185195
0300185197
9780300219692
0300219695