Space for Birds: Patterns and Parallels of Beauty and Flight

Space, Nature, and Environment: The Lives and Habitats of Two Majestic Bird Species is a book that explores the lives and habitats of two majestic bird species through striking space, aerial, and surface photographs. It was awarded the Next Generation Indie Book Award and highlights the fragile elegance of life on Earth. The first photos of Earth from space showed the home of all known life as a small "blue marble" in a vast darkness, inspiring the environmental movement. Dr. Roberta L. Bondar, the first female Canadian astronaut and the world's first neurologist in space, focuses her lens on two international species: the endangered Whooping Crane and the near-threatened Lesser Flamingo. Photos from the International Space Station convey the continental scale of these birds' travels, and Bondar's aerial and surface photos offer intimate glimpses of their daily lives and unique behaviors.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 31 October 2024
Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing

WINNER OF THE NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD – SPACE,NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT The lives and habitats of two majestic bird species are shared through striking space,aerial,and surface photographs to artfully convey the fragile elegance of life on Earth. New perspectives can inspire us to think differently about our place in the universe. The first photos of Earth from space showed the home of all known life as a small “blue marble” in a vast darkness and are thought by many to have inspired the environmental movement. For Dr. Roberta L. Bondar,the first female Canadian astronaut and the worlds first neurologist in space,the rare perspective she enjoyed aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery enhanced her reverence for the world we share with non-human life— especially birds,the only animals also able to fly vast distances across the globe. In Space for Birds: Patterns and Parallels of Beauty and Flight ,Bondar,also an accomplished professional nature and landscape photographer,focuses her lens on two international species: the endangered Whooping Crane,which migrates from its boreal nesting grounds in Canadas Wood Buffalo National Park to the seaside abundance of its winter habitat in Texas; and the near-threatened Lesser Flamingo,which is seen in dazzling pink flocks on and above East African Rift Valley soda lakes. Photos from the International Space Station convey the continental scale of these birds travels,and Bondars aerial and surface photos,accompanied by insights both scientific and personal,offer intimate glimpses of their daily lives and unique behaviours. While these birds lead different lives on opposite sides of the globe,they share,with each other and with us,an imperative to survive and a reliance on Earths fragile ecosystems. This book.
The lives and habitats of two majestic bird species are shared through striking space, aerial, and surface photographs to artfully convey the fragile elegance of life on Earth. New perspectives can inspire us to think differently about our place in the universe. The first photos of Earth from space showed the home of all known life as a small "blue marble" in a vast darkness and are thought by many to have inspired the environmental movement. For Dr. Roberta L. Bondar, the first female Canadian astronaut and the world's first neurologist in space, the rare perspective she enjoyed aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery enhanced her reverence for the world we share with non-human life, especially birds, the only animals also able to fly vast distances across the globe. In Space for Birds: Patterns and Parallels of Beauty and Flight, Bondar, also an accomplished professional nature and landscape photographer, focuses her lens on two international species: the endangered Whooping Crane, which migrates from its boreal nesting grounds in Canada's Wood Buffalo National Park to the seaside abundance of its winter habitat in Texas; and the near-threatened Lesser Flamingo, which is seen in dazzling pink flocks on and above East African Rift Valley soda lakes. Photos from the International Space Station convey the continental scale of these birds' travels, and Bondar's aerial and surface photos, accompanied by insights both scientific and personal, offer intimate glimpses of their daily lives and unique behaviors. While these birds lead different lives on opposite sides of the globe, they share, with each other and with us, an imperative to survive and a reliance on Earth's fragile ecosystems. This book.

Weight: 1662g
Dimension: 286 x 327 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781773272450