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Product details Hardcover 288 pages Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 2, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 1328566420

A Season on the Wind Inside the World of Spring Migration Kenn Kaufman 9781328566423 Books Reviews

• I’ve looked forward to this book about bird migration as experienced in Northwest Ohio from the first I heard it was in the works. I’m an avid birdwatcher who coincidently grew up in Toledo (alas, before my birding hobby formed. Kenn gives a wonderful introduction to the local area, its natural history and regional context.
  
  His marvelous descriptions of the wonders of bird migration are both informative and inspiring. He grounds it all in the day-to-day, week-to-week lived experience of observing birds in the marshes along the shore of Lake Erie. The collateral history and phenomenon of the roles of birders, hunters, scientists, farmers and local citizenry, including their contributions to the protection and enjoyment of an increasingly endangered ecosystem
  
  I give this book the highest of recommendations - especially for any and all birders - but also for anyone who enjoys nature more generally, Northwestern Ohio homies and readers in general.
• Another excellent account by Kenn Kaufman of the life of birds. This time a focused account of bird behavior during spring migration in northwest Ohio. As we have come to expect from this author, facts about birds are interwoven with stories about people. As a frequent visitor to the area around Magee Marsh, I enjoyed reading about how the whole region comes alive from someone who lives there year round. This book is also about understanding how weather (and climate change) plays a role on what unfolds every spring. This book offers a tribute to conservation efforts, large and small, and to the politics of birding, and the psychology of birders, and even a dash of the spirituality of nature. This book serves as a travel guide, inviting birders of all levels and persuasions to make the effort to see the beauty of nature at work in this very special part of the world.