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A Wing and a Prayer audiobook
- By: Anders Gyllenhaal
- Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
- Category: Animals, Birds, Nature
- Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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A Wing and a Prayer Audiobook Summary
A captivating drama from the frontlines of the race to save birds set against the devastating loss of one third of the avian population.
Three years ago, headlines delivered shocking news: nearly three billion birds in North America have vanished over the past fifty years. No species has been spared, from the most delicate jeweled hummingbirds to scrappy black crows, from a rainbow of warblers to common birds such as owls and sparrows.
In a desperate race against time, scientists, conservationists, birders, wildlife officers, and philanthropists are scrambling to halt the collapse of species with bold, experimental, and sometimes risky rescue missions. High in the mountains of Hawaii, biologists are about to release clouds of laboratory-bred mosquitos in a last-ditch attempt to save Hawaii’s remaining native forest birds. In Central Florida, researchers have found a way to hatch Florida Grasshopper Sparrows in captivity to rebuild a species down to its last two dozen birds. In the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a team is using artificial intelligence to save the California Spotted Owl. In North Carolina, a scientist is experimenting with genomics borrowed from human medicine to bring the long-extinct Passenger Pigeon back to life.
For the past year, veteran journalists Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal traveled more than 25,000 miles across the Americas, chronicling costly experiments, contentious politics, and new technologies to save our beloved birds from the brink of extinction. Through this compelling drama, A Wing and a Prayer offers hope and an urgent call to action: Birds are dying at an unprecedented pace. But there are encouraging breakthroughs across the hemisphere and still time to change course, if we act quickly.
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A Wing and a Prayer Audiobook Narrator
Cassandra Campbell is the narrator of A Wing and a Prayer audiobook that was written by Anders Gyllenhaal
About the Author(s) of A Wing and a Prayer
Anders Gyllenhaal is the author of A Wing and a Prayer
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A Wing and a Prayer Full Details
| Narrator | Cassandra Campbell |
| Length | 9 hours 2 minutes |
| Author | Anders Gyllenhaal |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| Release date | April 30, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781797158631 |
Subjects
The publisher of the A Wing and a Prayer is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: bird book, bird extinction, saving birds, vanishing birds, animal extinction, 3 billion biards, animal extinction, avian malaria, birdwatching, grasshopper sparrows, spotted owls, hawks, eagles, falcon thief, uninhabitable earth, david wallace-wells, the story of more, vesper flights, helen macdonald, what it's like to be a bird, david allen sibley, genius of birds, the bird way, jennifer ackerman, hummingbirds gift, sy montgomery, world on the wing, a world on the wing, scott weidensaul, fathoms, rebecca giggs, story of more, hope jahren, conservation, climate change, Nature, Animals, Birds, Science, Global Warming & Climate Change, Biography & Autobiography, Adventurers & Explorers The BISAC Subject Code is Animals, Birds, Nature
Additional info
The publisher of the A Wing and a Prayer is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781797158631.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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