Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds such as the secretive White-necked

such as the secretive White-necked Picathartes and the elusive Congo Peacock

including common ones such as swallows

Paperback in as new condition

and he explains in detail what is special about being a seabird and why-like us-they live a long time and reproduce very slowly

the 99 essays combine the author's extensive field experience with reflections drawn from biology

Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds such as the secretive White-neckedVery Good hardcover in dust jacket. A prizewinning poet and nature writer weaves together natural history, biology, sociology, and personal narrative to tell the story of the lives, habitats, and deaths of six extinct bird species.