Introduces Rufa Red Knot B95, a twenty-year-old robin-sized shore bird that makes an 18,000 mile migratory flight from the bottom of the world to the top and back every year. Details scientists' efforts to study this bird and its species and reveals what readers can do to save these "Moonbirds" from extinction.
year: 2012
call number/section: 1000, 598.07, 598
subjects: red knot, migration, bird watching, red knots
Editions
Hoose, Phillip M.
Farrar Straus Giroux (2012)
Introduces Rufa Red Knot B95, a twenty-year-old robin-sized shore bird that makes an 18,000 mile migratory flight from the bottom of the world to the top and back every year. Details scientists' efforts to study this bird and its species and reveals what readers can do to save these "Moonbirds" from extinction.
Schools: 29
Hoose, Phillip M.
Chronicles a year in the life of rufa red knot B95, also called Moonbird, following him through his migration pattern and discussing the environmental problems that caused the rufa population to collapsed by nearly eighty percent.
Schools: 24