Return to the Sky

The Surprising Story of How One Woman and Seven Eaglets Helped Restore the Bald Eagle

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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“Three cheers for this splendid, surprising, inspiring book!”—Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an OctopusAlone in a vast wildlife refuge with little direction and no experience, an American ornithology student found herself responsible for a project of historical importance – to bring the mighty Bald Eagle back from the brink of extinction.Tina Morris was one of the first women to spearhead a raptor reintroduction program, and in Return to the Sky, she shares her remarkable story that is as much about the human spirit as it is about birds of prey.In the spring of 1975, on the eve of America’s Bicentennial, Tina was selected to reintroduce Bald Eagles into New York State in the hope that the species could eventually repopulate eastern North America. Young and female in a male-dominated field, Tina was handed an assignment to rehabilitate a population that had been devastated by the effects of DDT. The challenges were prodigious, and with no model to refer to, she spent two years playing ‘mother’ to seven eaglets at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in New York. Driven by her passion, she discovered unknown reserves of patience, determination and grit, and her own path to self-discovery and confidence-building was inextricably linked to the survival of the species she was chosen to protect.At a time when the mass extinction of bird species is a critical global topic, Return to the Sky reminds us how, with a mix of common sense, resilience and resolve, humans can be effective stewards of the natural world.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-10-03
Mått153 x 229 x 26 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagChelsea Green Publishing Co
MedarbetareElizabeth Gray
ISBN9781645022633

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Raised in a large family and surrounded by myriad orphaned creatures both domestic and wild, Tina Morris was imbued with a lifelong love of animals. After a few wrong turns and a stormy relationship with science in college, she found a way to make her life’s ambition—rescuing endangered birds of prey—into a reality. Tina earned her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and her graduate degree in ornithology and wildlife biology from Cornell University, where she helped develop the first techniques for releasing introduced Bald Eagles. Her field research ultimately became the instruction manual for eagle restoration programs in other eastern states. Tina was formally inducted as an honorary Iroquois into the Confederacy of Six Nations for her work returning the Bald Eagle to the nation’s skies.Dr. Elizabeth Gray serves as Audubon’s Chief Executive Officer. In this role, she leads Audubon towards its vision of a future where birds thrive. Elizabeth is a champion of science-based conservation and a renowned expert in the field of global conservation and climate change. She joined Audubon in March 2021 as President and Chief Conservation Officer and was named Chief Executive Officer later that same year. She is the first woman since Audubon’s founding in 1905 to hold the role.

“Three cheers for this splendid, surprising, inspiring book! First, for its eloquent author, who as an anxious and inexperienced young woman took on a tough project too important to fail. Second, for the eaglets who, thanks to her innovative care, grew up to reclaim American skies. And lastly, a cheer for you, dear reader—for when you close these covers, you’ll know you, too, may help repair our beautiful, broken world.”—Sy Montgomery, naturalist; author of The Soul of an Octopus