The Art of Migration: Birds, Insects, and the Changing Seasons in Chicagoland

by Peggy Macnamara, James H. Boone, John Bates

Tiny ruby-throated hummingbirds weighing less than a nickel fly from the upper Midwest to Costa Rica every fall, crossing the six-hundred-mile Gulf of Mexico without a single stop. One of the many creatures that commute on the Mississippi Flyway as part of an annual migration, they pass along Chicago's lakefront and through midwestern backyards on a path used by their species for millennia. This magnificent migrational dance takes place every year...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022604629X
• ISBN13: 9780226046297
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.4" x 6.4"