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Before devouring Phillip Hoose's The Race To Save the Lord God Bird in 2004, this reader had no idea how compelling a book about a bird could be. In Race To Save, the author described the tragedy of a species' extinction. In this year's Moonbird, Hoose ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

He's called "Moonbird" because, over a lifespan of twenty years, he's flown some 325,000 miles, the distance to the moon and almost halfway back. This robin-sized red knot (subspecies rufa), a shorebird, is in southern Argentina from October to February and in the Arctic, breeding, for a few summer weeks; between times, his great migrating flock is like a "constantly shifting organism -- now a ball, now a rippling blanket" as the birds fly nearly from pole to pole twice a year. Stops are few but strategic; after thousands of miles it's essential to bulk up with what's available at the same...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Flying nearly from pole to pole twice a year, one robin-sized <i>rufa</i> red knot known as "Moonbird" has flown some 325,000 miles over a twenty-year...Log In or Sign Up to Read More