A wonderful crowd of readers, birders, and conservationists including Portland, Maine major Michael Brennan, staff of the Nature Conservancy, and Charles Duncan of Manomet launched Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 at Longfellow Books. Author Phillip Hoose gave a compelling review of the life of B95, the forces that work against B95, and… Read more »
Mongabay is “one of the world’s most popular environmental science and conservation news sites”, with more than 1 million unique viewers each month. They have recently published an article on B95 and the Rufa Red Knot, in which Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 was mentioned! “The birds have brought… Read more »
Phillip Hoose was recently interviewed by Abby of “The Lupine Librarian” about Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, and the difficulties that can arise when writing non-fiction. “The Lupine Librarian” is a blog that focuses on book reviews, write ups about library programs and thoughts on library life and the… Read more »
The Delaware Bay Blues was written May 22, 2011 in a rented beach house in Reeds Beach, New Jersey. 25 or so biologists and volunteers, myself among them, had spent the entire afternoon trapping, measuring, banding and releasing hundreds of shorebirds. We were happily exhausted that evening. Wine appeared, and so did a guitar. We… Read more »
You’re Invited to… The Book Launch for MOONBIRD A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:00 PM Longfellow Books Monument Square Portland, Maine With a follow-up reception at: 8:30 PM The Pepper Club 78 Middle Street Portland, ME SHARE the event on Facebook. The Book Launch Join National… Read more »
B95, the subject of Phillip Hoose’s Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, not only appeared on a NJ beach this week, but also on the New York Times‘ Green: A Blog About Energy and the Environment in the article “A Red-Knot Celebrity is Back in Town.”: “On Monday morning, Patricia… Read more »
This news just arrived from Patricia Gonzalez from the Global Flyway Network via fellow conservationist Charles Duncan from the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences. B95 has been spotted in New Jersey!! “It is incredible! Were counted some 29,000 red knots in Delaware Bay and I was lucky that B95 decided to settle in front of… Read more »
MoonBird: A Year on the Wind with Great Survivor B95 is seeing stars. Yes, hopefully our intrepid shorebird hero is on Delaware Bay feeding on horseshoe crab eggs laid by starlight, but those are not the stars we speak of. The book review journals have graced Moonbird (on sales 7/17/12) with 4 coveted “starred reviews.”… Read more »
Mike Hudson, founder of Friends of the Red Knot, and Phillip Hoose, author of Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, talk about the Peace, Love and Horseshoe Crab Festival at the DuPont Nature Center near Milford, DE. Watch it here.