Flight of the Storm Petrel. Ronald M. Lockley

Illustrated by Noel W. Cusa

The strange lives of the storm petrels, smallest and most fascinating of sea birds, are being slowly unravelled on remote coasts and islands around the world. This is the first book to look at all 21 species. Ronald M Lockley was himself the first to ring 'Mother Carey's Chickens' and has since studied petrels in both hemispheres. He writes with warmth and fluency of the tiny British (or European) petrel and its astonishing migration thousands of miles across the equator to South African seas. Leach's petrel and other fork-tails, Wilson's petrel (below) - the hardiest small bird in the world, actually burrowing into the snow blocking its Antarctic nesting crevice - and the tropical petrels, are all here.

Hardback;192pp.Wonderful illustrations by Noel Cusa. Maps.  Post free UK

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